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Tens of millions of consumers use financial products or services like credit cards and student loans that include pre-dispute arbitration clauses in their...

We're working with the Department of Labor to increase youth financial capability across the country at this crucial stage when young people are starting to...

Join us for a Credit Union Advisory Council meeting with Director Cordray on Thursday, March 12 from 3 to 5 p.m. EST. During this meeting we will discuss...

Goals, whether long term or short term, usually cost money to accomplish. That means when you have a life goal, you probably have a financial goal...

Join us for a field hearing in Newark, N.J. on arbitration.

America Saves Week is coming soon. This annual event helps thousands of us start out on a regular program of saving money toward our goals. We've all got...

Along with the U.S. Department of Education, today we announced more than $480 million in forgiveness for borrowers who took out Corinthian College's...

Join us for a Consumer Advisory Board meeting with Director Cordray on Thursday, February 19 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. EDT. During this meeting we will discuss...

In the six months since we announced the release of Your Money, Your Goals: A Financial Empowerment Toolkit for Social Services Programs, organizations...

Today, we're asking several players in the student loan industry to find out what progress they've made. We're looking to find out what loan modification...

Savings and income are part of financial well-being, but we learned that they’re not always the most important part. Instead, when people talked about their own financial well-being, four main elements came to light.

Today, we're accepting applications for membership on all of our advisory groups. We're inviting applications from individuals who can provide us with...

This week, we're launching our latest effort to help you navigate the market, ask the questions, and take the steps that will help you to find the mortgage...

We shop to find the best price for laptops or appliances, but a report of recent mortgage borrowers found that almost half of us don't shop around for a...

Servicemembers, veterans and military families have submitted more than 11,000 debt collection complaints to the CFPB since we began accepting them in July...

For all of you faced with student loan payments and crafting New Year’s resolutions to conquer your debt, we’ve put together some tips to help you navigate through the noise.

In the next few months most U.S. households will be filing their tax returns. The holidays are over and it's worth taking a few minutes now to think ahead...

The holiday season provides a particularly good opportunity to reach kids with some basic money attitudes. Your children absorb what you say and what you...

Our investigation found that the companies illegally filed thousands of lawsuits in Virginia against consumers who didn't live or purchase goods there: over...

Today, we're releasing a report that looks at deals between financial institutions and colleges to market credit cards to students. This year we found that...

We believe that consumers are more likely to save if they have access to the right tools. Today, we're announcing that, as part of Project Catalyst, we'll...

Today, we held a field hearing on medical debt collection in Oklahoma City, OK. The hearing featured remarks from Director Richard Cordray, as well as...

An estimated 43 million Americans are dealing with medical debt. Debt collection is the top complaint we’ve received since September 2013 and medical collections make up 52 percent of collection accounts on credit reports, far outpacing all other types of debt. Learn more about how you can keep medical debt in check.

Since September 2013, debt collection has been the top complaint at the CFPB. A staggering 52 percent of all collection accounts on credit reports are...

Next Spring, we’ll host our first research conference on consumer finance in Washington, D.C.