Research and reports

This report presents results from a joint research study between the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) and Credit Karma. The purpose of the study is to examine how consumers’ subjective financial well-being relates to objective measures of consumers’ financial health, specifically, consumers’ credit report characteristics. The study also seeks to relate consumers’ subjective financial well-being to consumers’ engagement with financial information through educational tools. 

A large study exploring tax-time saving found that early messaging and small incentives were effective at encouraging some customers to save using a savings feature on their prepaid card.

This data point article summarizes the historical data points 2018 Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA) data, as well as recent trends in mortgage and housing markets.

This data point article introduces the new and revised data points in the 2018 Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA) data.

Every two years, the CFPB reports on the state of the consumer credit card market. This is our report for 2019.

This report on the Bureau’s September 17th, 2018 Building a Bridge to Credit Visibility Symposium summarizes the panel discussions that took place during the event and highlights the key themes that stood out from those conversations.

The Diversity and Inclusion Strategic Plan Update (Update) covers the period of FY 2019-2022 and guides CFPB’s efforts in promoting diversity and inclusion in its workforce, supplier diversity, and works to promote diversity among regulated entities. 

This report provides a brief overview of third-party debt collections tradelines. It compares tradelines from debt buyers to those from other debt collectors.

This Advisory Update focuses on financial institution reporting of elder financial exploitation to federal, state and local first responders.

This eleventh data point examines how often credit card balances are revolved on an account, or borrowed, how long balances are revolved, and how regularly they are paid down.