We study how consumers interact with financial products and services to help identify potential problems in the marketplace and achieve better outcomes for all. Review our reports and analyses to help inform your decisions, policies, and practices. And, see reports that we periodically prepare about the CFPB.
This study analyzes a rich, non-public data set to shed light on the volume and characteristics of elder financial abuse.
We follow specific standards for maintaining affirmative employment programs and take steps to ensure that policies, practices, and procedures are conducted in an inclusive manner for employees and applicants.
Quarterly consumer credit trends reports focus on a specific consumer financial product or issue using a longitudinal, nationally-representative sample of de-identified credit records maintained by a nationwide credit reporting company.
In accordance with the Dodd-Frank Act, the CFPB orders an annual independent audit of the operations and budget of the Bureau. The purpose of this audit is to provide objective analyses to improve program performance and operations, reduce costs, facilitate decision-making, and contribute to public accountability.
This report describes the outcomes of the Bureau-initiated community convenings in Florida, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Montana, and Oregon. The purpose of the report is to share the learnings and achievements from the convenings to encourage the establishment of new or enhance existing networks and help communities improve coordination and collaboration between responders and service providers.
The Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection released the findings of its assessment of the Remittance Rule. The report describes the Rule, the market, and the Bureau’s findings on the Rule’s effectiveness in meeting factors outlined in the Dodd-Frank Act.
This research brief explores the factors that are associated with financial well-being for veterans. It relies on data from the Bureau’s National Financial Well-Being Survey to examine the distribution of financial well-being scores for veterans in the United States.
The Federal Activities Inventory Reform Act (“FAIR Act”) of 1998 and OMB Circular A-76, requires us to submit to Congress, and to make available to the public, an annual report that of competitive sourcing opportunities at the Bureau.
This report provides detailed information about the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s diversity and inclusion work of Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection from Oct. 1, 2017 to Sept. 30, 2018.
This report is designed to help education policymakers, program leaders, financial educators, and academic researchers make evidence-informed policy, programming and resourcing decisions in school-based financial education.
This report lays out key unanswered research questions in youth financial education identified by a range of stakeholders.
