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Category: Report Semi-Annual Report of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
Category: Press release Agencias Gubernamentales Proponen Directrices Inter Agenciales sobre Reconsideraciones del Valor de Valuaciones de Propiedades de Bienes Raíces Residenciales
Category: Press release CFPB Takes Action Against Phoenix Financial Services for Illegal Medical Debt Collection and Credit Reporting Practices
Category: Press release CFPB Toma Acción Contra Phoenix Financial Services por Prácticas Ilegales de Cobro de Deudas Médicas y Reporte del Crédito
Category: Blog Extendemos la fecha tope para recibir comentarios sobre los corredores de datos
Category: Blog We are extending the deadline for comments about data brokers
Category: Blog The CFPB has entered the chat
Category: Blog Office of Research blog: Update on student loan borrowers during payment suspension
Category: Blog La CFPB ha entrado al chat
Category: Report Chatbots in consumer finance
Category: Report Tuition Payment Plans in Higher Education
Category: Report Chatbots in consumer finance
Category: Press release CFPB Issue Spotlight Analyzes “Artificial Intelligence” Chatbots in Banking
Category: Press release CFPB analiza papel de Inteligencia Artificial en la banca
Category: Blog Nuevas Lecciones para Redes de Justicia del Anciano
Category: Blog New lessons for elder justice networks
Category: Press release Agencias solicitan comentarios sobre normativa de tasaciones automáticas
Category: Blog Algoritmos, inteligencia artificial y equidad en tasaciones de vivienda
Category: Press release Billones de Dólares en Aps de Pago Carecerían de Garantía Federal
Category: Press release CFPB Finds that Billions of Dollars Stored on Popular Payment Apps May Lack Federal Insurance
Category: Consumer advisories Consejos al consumidor: Su dinero está en mayor riesgo si lo mantiene en una aplicación de pago en vez de moverlo a una cuenta que tenga garantía de depósitos
Category: Report Issue Spotlight: Analysis of Deposit Insurance Coverage on Funds Stored Through Payment Apps
Category: Consumer advisories Consumer advisory: Your money is at greater risk when you hold it in a payment app, instead of moving it to an account with deposit insurance
Category: Blog Algorithms, artificial intelligence, and fairness in home appraisals
Category: Press release Agencies Request Comment on Quality Control Standards for Automated Valuation Models Proposed Rule
Category: Press release CFPB Orders Installment Lender OneMain to Pay $20 Million for Deceptive Sales Practices
Category: Press release CFPB ordena a OneMain pagar $20 millones por prácticas engañosas | CFPB
Category: Report Issue Spotlight: Medical Billing and Collections Among Older Americans
Category: Report Overdraft/NSF Revenue in Q4 2022 down nearly 50% versus pre-pandemic levels
Category: Blog Mortgage data shows that borrowers could save $100 a month (or more) by choosing cheaper lenders
Category: Report Trends in overdraft/non-sufficient fund (NSF) fee revenue and practices
Category: Press release CFPB Action to Require Citizens Bank to Pay $9 Million Penalty for Unlawful Credit Card Servicing
Category: Press release CFPB Obliga a Citizens Bank a Pagar Multa de $9 Millones | CFPB
Category: Report Consumer experiences with overdraft programs
Category: Blog Building resilience and durability into mortgage rules
Category: Speech Statement of CFPB Director Rohit Chopra, Member, FDIC Board of Directors, on the Proposed Special Deposit Insurance Assessment on Large Banks
Category: Press release CFPB Issues Guidance to Rein in Creation of Fake Accounts to Harvest Fees
Category: Speech Prepared Remarks of General Counsel and Senior Advisor to the Director Seth Frotman at the Innovative Payments Conference
Category: Blog Have medical debt? Anything already paid or under $500 should no longer be on your credit report
Category: Blog ¿Tiene deudas médicas? Ninguna que haya pagado o que sea menos de $500, debería aparecer en su informe de crédito
Category: Blog CFPB to distribute more than $22 million to consumers harmed by Burlington Financial Group’s debt relief and credit repair scams
Category: Blog Distribuiremos más de $22 millones a consumidores afectados por las estafas con alivio de deudas y reparación de crédito del Burlington Financial Group
Category: Speech Prepared Remarks of CFPB Director Rohit Chopra at the 2023 American Economic Liberties Project Anti-Monopoly Summit
Category: Report Medical Credit Cards and Financing Plans
Category: Speech Prepared Remarks of Director Rohit Chopra at the American Association of Healthcare Administration Management
Category: Press release CFPB Report Highlights Costly Credit Cards and Loans Pushed on Patients
Category: Press release 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 Adjustable-rate loans are changing, because a widely-used interest rate index expires in June
Category: Letter CFPB Letter to the California Department of Financial Protection and Innovation
Category: Press release CFPB Issues Rule to Facilitate Orderly Wind Down of LIBOR
Category: Blog Credit reporting companies should do more to ensure that servicemembers receive the free credit monitoring services they are legally entitled to
Category: Press release CFPB Issues Guidance to Protect Homeowners from Illegal Collection Tactics on Zombie Mortgages
Category: Blog Zombie second mortgages: When collectors come for long forgotten home loans
Category: Blog Segundas hipotecas zombis: Qué hacer cuando los cobradores lleguen a cobrar préstamos hipotecarios olvidados
Category: Press release CFPB Joins Other Financial Regulatory Agencies in Issuing Statement on Completing the LIBOR Transition
Category: Speech Prepared Remarks of Director Rohit Chopra on Zombie Mortgage Debt
Category: Blog Office of Research blog: Who gets sued in civil courts? Civil judgments are not evenly distributed
Category: Report Consumer Credit and the Removal of Medical Collections from Credit Reports
Category: Press release CFPB emite directrices contra tácticas ilegales de cobro de hipotecas zombis | CFPB
Category: Speech Director Chopra’s Prepared Remarks on the Interagency Enforcement Policy Statement on “Artificial Intelligence”
Category: Speech Prepared Remarks of Director Rohit Chopra at the April 2023 Financial Literacy and Education Commission
Category: Press release CFPB and Federal Partners Confirm Automated Systems and Advanced Technology Not an Excuse for Lawbreaking Behavior
Category: Director's statement Statement of CFPB Director Rohit Chopra on the Proposed Restoration of the Financial Stability Oversight Council’s Authority and Regulatory Credibility
Category: Testimony Written Testimony of James S. Rice, Assistant Director, Office of Servicemember Affairs, before the U.S. Senate Committee on Veterans’ Affairs
Category: Speech Director Chopra’s Prepared Remarks at Justice Department Interagency Event in Newark, New Jersey to Highlight Efforts to Combat Modern-Day Redlining
Category: Blog Mientras la deuda de tarjetas de crédito alcanza un nuevo pico, en la CFPB nos enfocamos en aumentar la competencia y reducir los costos
Category: Blog As outstanding credit card debt hits new high, the CFPB is focusing on ways to increase competition and reduce costs
Category: Blog Protecting people from discriminatory targeting
Category: Press release CFPB Announces Revised Methodology for Determining Average Prime Offer Rates
Category: Testimony Testimony of CFPB Senior Advisor Brian Shearer on Junk Fees Before the Pennsylvania House of Representatives Consumer Protection, Technology, and Utilities Committee
Category: Report FY 2022 Office of Minority and Women Inclusion Annual Report to Congress
Category: Office of Research Publication Insights into Consumers’ Financial Standing and Distress from 2019-2022: Evidence from a CDFI
Category: Press release CFPB Sues James Carnes and Melissa Carnes for Hiding Money to Avoid Paying for Illegal Payday Lending Business
Category: Press release CFPB Demanda a los Carnes por Evitar Pagar por Negocio Ilegal | CFPB
Category: Press release CFPB Issues Guidance to Address Abusive Conduct in Consumer Financial Markets
Category: Speech Director Rohit Chopra’s Prepared Remarks at the University of California Irvine Law School
Category: Press release CFPB Emite Directrices para Enfrentar Conductas Abusivas | CFPB
Category: Blog CFPB to distribute more than $4.7 million to consumers impacted by nationwide student financial aid scam
Category: Blog Distribuimos más de $4.7 millones entre consumidores en toda la nación afectados por estafa con ayuda financiera estudiantil
Category: Report 2022 Consumer Response annual report
Category: Press release CFPB Finalizes Rule to Create a New Data Set on Small Business Lending in America
Category: Report Supplemental estimation methodology for institutional coverage and market-level cost estimates in the small business lending rulemaking
Category: Report User testing for sample data collection form for the small business lending final rule
Category: Speech Director Chopra’s Remarks at the NCRC Just Economy Conference
Category: Report No FEAR Act Annual Report for fiscal year 2022
Category: Speech Prepared Panel Remarks of CFPB Director Rohit Chopra, at the American Bar Association Spring Meeting
Category: Press release La CFPB Finaliza Normativa para Crear un Nuevo Conjunto de Datos para el Crédito a la Pequeña Empresa en el País
Category: Press release CFPB determina que leyes estatales son Consistentes con la TILA | CFPB
Category: Press release CFPB Issues Determination that State Disclosure Laws on Business Lending are Consistent with the Truth in Lending Act
Category: Blog Tell us your experiences with data brokers
Category: Blog Hemos destinado $11 millones para los consumidores afectados por una operación ilegal de alivio de préstamos estudiantiles
Category: Press release CFPB ordena a delincuente reincidente, pagar $24 millones | CFPB
Category: Blog CFPB has allocated $11 million for consumers harmed by illegal student loan debt relief operation
Category: Press release CFPB Orders Repeat Offender Portfolio Recovery Associates to Pay More Than $24 Million for Continued Illegal Debt Collection Practices and Consumer Reporting Violations
Category: Press release CFPB Mejora Herramienta para Promover Competencia y Comparación de Tarjetas de Crédito
Category: Press release CFPB Enhances Tool to Promote Competition and Comparison Shopping in Credit Card Market
Category: Press release 2022 HMDA Data on Mortgage Lending Now Available
Category: Report Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) program status report for fiscal year (FY) 2022
Category: Press release CFPB Heightens Scrutiny of Unlawful Collection of Payments on Discharged Student Loans