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Category: Press release
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Agencies Propose Interagency Guidance on Reconsiderations of Value for Residential Real Estate Valuations
Category: Blog
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New lessons for elder justice networks
Category: Blog
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Algorithms, artificial intelligence, and fairness in home appraisals
Category: Press release
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Agencies Request Comment on Quality Control Standards for Automated Valuation Models Proposed Rule
Category: Report Issue Spotlight: Medical Billing and Collections Among Older Americans
Category: Blog
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Building resilience and durability into mortgage rules
Category: Press release
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CFPB Proposes New Consumer Protections for Homeowners Seeking Clean Energy Financing
Category: Office of Research Publication Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) Financing and Consumer Financial Outcomes
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 Issues Guidance to Protect Homeowners from Illegal Collection Tactics on Zombie Mortgages
Category: Blog
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Zombie second mortgages: When collectors come for long forgotten home loans
Category: Press release
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CFPB Joins Other Financial Regulatory Agencies in Issuing Statement on Completing the LIBOR Transition
Category: Speech
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Prepared Remarks of Director Rohit Chopra on Zombie Mortgage Debt
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: Press release
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CFPB Announces Revised Methodology for Determining Average Prime Offer Rates
Category: Press release
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2022 HMDA Data on Mortgage Lending Now Available
Category: Report 2022 Financial Literacy Annual Report
Category: Blog
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Protecting homeowners from discriminatory home appraisals
Category: Blog
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CFPB starting mandated review of mortgage loan originator rules
Category: Report Supervisory Highlights Junk Fees Special Edition, Issue 29, Winter 2023
Category: Office of Research Publication Report on the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act Rule Voluntary Review
Category: Blog
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Seeking public input: new proposal for alternative mortgage disclosures for construction loans
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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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 Issues Guidance to Protect Mortgage Borrowers from Pay-to-Play Digital Comparison-Shopping Platforms
Category: Director's statement
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Statement of CFPB Director Rohit Chopra on Mortgage Comparison Shopping in a Time of Higher Interest Rates
Category: Blog
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What’s ahead for Wells Fargo and its customers
Category: Report Servicemember reports about identity theft are increasing
Category: Speech
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Deputy Director Martinez’s Prepared Remarks at the National Fair Housing Alliance Event Previewing “Our America: Lowballed”
Category: Blog
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Office of Research Blog: Even as rents increase, fewer people are buying
Category: Blog
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Mortgage financing options in a higher interest rate environment
Category: Press release
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CFPB & FHFA news release announcing the publication of updated loan-level data for public use collected through the National Survey of Mortgage Originations
Category: Blog
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You can help caregivers spot illegal nursing home debt collection tactics
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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Office of Research blog: Higher interest rates leading to higher debt burdens for mortgage borrowers
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: Report Supervisory Highlights, Issue 28, Fall 2022
Category: Press release
Archived
Agencies Announce Threshold for Smaller Loan Exemption from Appraisal Requirements for Higher-Priced Mortgage Loans
Category: Blog
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Mortgage borrowers can challenge inaccurate appraisals through the reconsideration of value process
Category: Report Recovering from Elder Financial Exploitation: A framework for policy and research
Category: Blog
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Help us spur new opportunities for homeowners in the mortgage market
Category: Press release
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CFPB Launches Effort to Spur New Opportunities for Homeowners in the Mortgage Market
Category: Speech
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Director Chopra’s Prepared Remarks at the Exchequer Club Fireside Chat
Category: Office of Research Publication Data Point: 2021 Mortgage Market Activity and Trends
Category: Report Issue Spotlight: Nursing Home Debt Collection
Category: Speech
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Director Chopra’s Prepared Remarks at the CFPB Field Hearing on Nursing Home Debt Collection Practices
Category: Blog
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Beware of scammers pretending to be from the CFPB
Category: Office of Research Publication Consumer Finances in Rural Appalachia
Category: Press release
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CFPB Report Details Family Finances and Debt in Rural Appalachia
Category: Speech
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Director Chopra's Remarks on the Announcement Regarding the Cancellation of Loans for ITT Tech Students
Category: Press release
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CFPB and Justice Department Caution Auto Finance Companies about Servicemember Protections
Category: Speech
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Director Chopra’s Prepared Remarks at a Joint DOJ, CFPB Press Event on the Trident Enforcement Action
Category: Blog
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Office of Research blog: Housing inflation is hitting low-income renters
Category: Press release
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CFPB, DOJ Order Trident Mortgage Company to Pay More Than $22 Million for Deliberate Discrimination Against Minority Families
Category: Blog
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Using special purpose credit programs to serve unmet credit needs
Category: Blog
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Protecting servicemembers from costly auto loans and wrongful repossessions
Category: Blog
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Rethinking the approach to regulations
Category: Report Office of Servicemember Affairs 2021 Annual Report
Category: Blog
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CFPB publishes Beginner’s Guide to Accessing and Using Home Mortgage Disclosure Act Data
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: Report Data Spotlight: Financial challenges faced by recently widowed older adults
Category: Report Mortgage Servicing COVID-19 Pandemic Response Metrics: New Observations from Data Reported by Sixteen Servicers for May-December 2021
Category: Blog
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Data spotlight: Older adults living in mobile homes
Category: Report Data Spotlight: Profiles of older adults living in mobile homes
Category: Report Supervisory Highlights, Issue 26, Spring 2022
Category: Blog
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How to prevent and report scams targeting older adults
Category: Blog
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Climate risk should be considered in housing decisions
Category: Blog
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Helping borrowers hold mortgage servicers accountable
Category: Office of Research Publication New Data on the Characteristics of Mortgage Borrowers During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Category: Blog
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The Fed is raising interest rates. What does that mean for borrowers and savers?
Category: Report Data Spotlight: Medical debt among older adults before the pandemic
Category: Op-ed | Category: Speech
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Prepared Remarks of Deputy Director Zixta Martinez at the National Association of Hispanic Real Estate Professionals Convention & Housing Policy Summit
Category: Report 2021 Financial Literacy Annual Report
Category: Blog
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If you’re a homeowner struggling to make housing-related payments due to the pandemic, help is available or coming soon
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: 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: Speech
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Remarks of Director Rohit Chopra at the Elder Justice Coordinating Council Meeting
Category: Press release
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CFPB Issues Final Rule to Facilitate Transition from LIBOR
Category: Director's statement
Archived
Statement of Director Rohit Chopra on the LIBOR Transition Rule
Category: Press release
Archived
Agencies Announce Threshold for Smaller Loan Exemption from Appraisal Requirements for Higher-Priced Mortgage Loans
Category: Report Data Spotlight: Suspicious Activity Reports on Elder Financial Exploitation
Category: Press release
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CFPB Sues Pawn Lenders for Cheating Military Families
Category: Press release
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CFPB Takes Action to Prevent Avoidable Foreclosures
Category: Press release
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CFPB Joins Other Financial Regulatory Agencies in Issuing Statement on Discontinuation of LIBOR
Category: Blog
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Deadline to request initial forbearance for HUD/FHA, USDA, or VA backed loans is extended until National Emergency ends
Category: Blog
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New rule ensures mortgage servicers provide options to potentially vulnerable borrowers exiting forbearance
Category: Blog
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Mortgage refinance loans drove an increase in closed-end originations in 2020, new CFPB report finds

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