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Category: Press release
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CFPB Action to Require Citizens Bank to Pay $9 Million Penalty for Unlawful Credit Card Servicing
Category: Speech
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Prepared Remarks of Director Rohit Chopra at the American Association of Healthcare Administration Management
Category: Report Medical Credit Cards and Financing Plans
Category: Press release
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CFPB Report Highlights Costly Credit Cards and Loans Pushed on Patients
Category: Blog
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Adjustable-rate loans are changing, because a widely-used interest rate index expires in June
Category: Press release
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CFPB Issues Rule to Facilitate Orderly Wind Down of LIBOR
Category: Blog
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Credit reporting companies should do more to ensure that servicemembers receive the free credit monitoring services they are legally entitled to
Category: Press release
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CFPB Joins Other Financial Regulatory Agencies in Issuing Statement on Completing the LIBOR Transition
Category: Testimony
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Written Testimony of James S. Rice, Assistant Director, Office of Servicemember Affairs, before the U.S. Senate Committee on Veterans’ Affairs
Category: Blog
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As outstanding credit card debt hits new high, the CFPB is focusing on ways to increase competition and reduce costs
Category: Press release
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CFPB Sues James Carnes and Melissa Carnes for Hiding Money to Avoid Paying for Illegal Payday Lending Business
Category: Press release
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CFPB Issues Guidance to Address Abusive Conduct in Consumer Financial Markets
Category: Speech
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Director Rohit Chopra’s Prepared Remarks at the University of California Irvine Law School
Category: Press release
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CFPB Finalizes Rule to Create a New Data Set on Small Business Lending in America
Category: Speech
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Director Chopra’s Remarks at the NCRC Just Economy Conference
Category: Press release
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CFPB Enhances Tool to Promote Competition and Comparison Shopping in Credit Card Market
Category: Report 2022 Financial Literacy Annual Report
Category: Report Supervisory Highlights Junk Fees Special Edition, Issue 29, Winter 2023
Category: Speech
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Deputy Director Martinez’s Prepared Remarks at the Consumer Law Scholars Conference
Category: Report Issue Spotlight: Public Benefits Delivery & Consumer Protection
Category: Press release
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CFPB Shuts Down Mortgage Loan Business of RMK Financial for Repeat Offenses Against Military Families
Category: Blog
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Why the largest credit card companies are suppressing actual payment data on your credit report
Category: Blog
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WARNO: They call themselves “coaches” or “consultants” and advertise their ability to assist you with your VA benefits claim but may not be accredited to practice before the VA
Category: Press release
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CFPB Proposes Rule to Rein in Excessive Credit Card Late Fees
Category: Director's statement
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Director Chopra’s Remarks on Press Call for Credit Card Late Fees NPRM
Category: Press release
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CFPB Seeks Public Input on Consumer Credit Card Market
Category: Press release
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CFPB Issues Guidance to Root Out Tactics Which Charge People Fees for Subscriptions They Don’t Want
Category: Blog
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CFPB releases updates to mortgage servicing exam procedures
Category: Report Servicemember reports about identity theft are increasing
Category: Director's statement
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Statement of CFPB Director Rohit Chopra on Proposed Registry of Supervised Nonbanks that Use Form Contracts to Impose Terms and Conditions that Seek to Waive or Limit Consumer Legal Protections
Category: Press release
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CFPB Proposes Rule to Establish Public Registry of Terms and Conditions in Form Contracts That Claim to Waive or Limit Consumer Rights and Protections
Category: Blog
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What new supervised institutions need to know about working with the CFPB
Category: Office of Research Publication Making Ends Meet in 2022: Insights from the CFPB Making Ends Meet survey
Category: Press release
Archived
CFPB Proposes Registry to Detect Repeat Offenders
Category: Report Protecting Those Who Protect Us: Evidence of activated Guard and Reserve servicemembers’ usage of credit protections under the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act
Category: Press release
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CFPB Finds Members of the Reserves and National Guard Paying Millions of Dollars in Extra Interest Each Year
Category: Blog
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Protecting borrowers’ control over their money
Category: Blog
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Protecting the right of military families to go to court
Category: Press release
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CFPB Supervisory Examinations Find Credit Reporting Failures, Junk Fees, and Mishandling of COVID-19 Protections
Category: Blog
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The CFPB finalizes rule to increase transparency regarding key nonbank supervision tool
Category: Report Supervisory Highlights, Issue 28, Fall 2022
Category: Press release
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CFPB Report Finds High Fees Charged on Student Banking Products Endorsed by Colleges
Category: Report 2022 College banking and credit card agreements
Category: Press release
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CFPB Supervisory Examinations Find Violations of Federal Law by Student Loan Servicers and University-Owned Lenders
Category: Report Buy Now, Pay Later: Market trends and consumer impacts
Category: Speech
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Director Chopra’s prepared remarks on the release of the CFPB’s Buy Now, Pay Later report
Category: Office of Research Publication Consumer Finances in Rural Appalachia
Category: Blog
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Why we’re modernizing how we collect credit card data
Category: Blog
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Examining the factors driving high credit card interest rates
Category: Press release
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CFPB and Justice Department Caution Auto Finance Companies about Servicemember Protections
Category: Press release
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CFPB Fines U.S. Bank $37.5 Million for Illegally Exploiting Personal Data to Open Sham Accounts for Unsuspecting Customers
Category: Blog
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Office of Research blog: Housing inflation is hitting low-income renters
Category: Blog
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Protecting servicemembers from costly auto loans and wrongful repossessions
Category: Press release
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CFPB Sues ACE Cash Express for Concealing No-Cost Repayment Plans and Improperly Withdrawing Consumers’ Funds
Category: Report Credit Card Line Decreases
Category: Blog
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New report explores the impact of credit card line decreases on consumers
Category: Blog
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Measuring the impact of financial institution overdraft programs on consumers
Category: Op-ed | Category: Speech
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Deputy Director Zixta Martinez’s Keynote Address at the Consumer Federation of America’s 2022 Consumer Assembly
Category: Report Office of Servicemember Affairs 2021 Annual Report
Category: Press release
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CFPB Report Highlights Experiences of Military Families with Medical Billing, Credit Reporting, and Debt Collection
Category: Blog
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Protecting servicemembers from abuses of the military allotment system
Category: Blog
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Credit disputes: getting a clear statement of results from your furnisher
Category: Blog
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CFPB tells credit card CEOs: Practice of suppressing payment data has potential for consumer harm
Category: Report Mortgage Servicing COVID-19 Pandemic Response Metrics: New Observations from Data Reported by Sixteen Servicers for May-December 2021
Category: Press release
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CFPB Supervisory Report Finds Unlawful Auto Repossessions, Breakdowns in Credit Report Disputes
Category: Report Supervisory Highlights, Issue 26, Spring 2022
Category: Blog
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Overcharging for add-on products on auto loans
Category: Press release
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CFPB Invokes Dormant Authority to Examine Nonbank Companies Posing Risks to Consumers
Category: Speech
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Director Chopra’s Prepared Remarks on the Lawsuit Against MoneyGram
Category: Press release
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CFPB and NY Attorney General Sue Repeat Offender MoneyGram For Leaving Families High and Dry
Category: Op-ed | Category: Speech
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Deputy Director Martinez’s Opening Remarks to the Academic Research Council
Category: Report Consumer Use of State Payday Loan Extended Payment Plans
Category: Press release
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CFPB Finds Payday Borrowers Continue to Pay Significant Rollover Fees Despite State-Level Protections and Payment Plans
Category: Press release
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CFPB Sanctions Edfinancial for Lying about Student Loan Cancellation
Category: Director's statement
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CFPB Director Chopra Statement on Edfinancial and Student Loan Cancellation for Public Service
Category: Office of Research Publication Credit card late fees
Category: Op-ed | Category: Speech
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“Reining in Repeat Offenders”: 2022 Distinguished Lecture on Regulation, University of Pennsylvania Law School
Category: Blog
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CFPB Extends Opportunity for Public to Provide Input on Junk Fees
Category: Press release
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CFPB Issues Policy on Contractual ‘Gag’ Clauses and Fake Review Fraud
Category: Blog
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The Fed is raising interest rates. What does that mean for borrowers and savers?
Category: Blog
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New effort focused on financial issues facing rural communities
Category: Report 2021 Financial Literacy Annual Report
Category: Blog
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New VA rule relieves financial distress for thousands of veterans with medical bills
Category: Blog
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The hidden cost of junk fees
Category: Press release
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Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Launches Initiative to Save Americans Billions in Junk Fees
Category: Op-ed | Category: Speech
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Prepared Remarks of CFPB Director Rohit Chopra on the Junk Fees RFI Press Call
Category: Press release
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Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to Examine Colleges’ In-House Lending Practices
Category: Blog
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Americans pay $120 billion in credit card interest and fees each year
Category: Blog
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Protecting servicemembers from predatory lending
Category: Office of Research Publication Consumer finances during the pandemic: Insights from the Making Ends Meet Survey
Category: Blog
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Making Ends Meet series: Consumer finances during the pandemic
Category: Press release
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CFPB and DOJ Put Landlords and Mortgage Servicers on Notice About Servicemembers’ and Veterans’ Rights
Category: Blog
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Seven examples of unfair practices and other violations by mortgage servicers: CFPB supervision activities uncover red flags
Category: Report Supervisory Highlights, Issue 25, Fall 2021
Category: Blog
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The LIBOR index for adjustable-rate loans is being discontinued: here’s what to watch for
Category: Press release
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CFPB Sues Pawn Lenders for Cheating Military Families
Category: Office of Research Publication Disputes on Consumer Credit Reports
Category: Press release
Archived
CFPB Joins Other Financial Regulatory Agencies in Issuing Statement on Discontinuation of LIBOR
Category: Report The Consumer Credit Card Market
Category: Press release
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CFPB Report Finds Declines in Credit Card Debt, New Applications and Increases in Digital Engagement in 2020

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