Compliance and guidance
The Bureau provides different forms of guidance and compliance resources to help you understand and comply with our rules and the statutes we implement.
On this page, we provide regulatory guidance and compliance resources, supervisory process and guidance documents, and information on the Bureau’s registration and submission programs.
Supervisory resources
Supervision and examinations
Learn more about the Bureau’s supervisory authority and understand how our regional offices conduct examinations and assess compliance with federal consumer financial law.
Supervisory Highlights
We periodically release Supervisory Highlights to share key examination findings and to help the entities we supervise limit risks to consumers and comply with federal consumer financial law.
Supervisory guidance
We periodically release policy guidance, including compliance bulletins, joint-agency memoranda, and other notices and guidance to inform and advise regulated entities.
Compliance resources
Guides, videos, and other resources to help entities understand, implement, and comply with Bureau rules and the statutes we implement.
Mortgage topics
- Ability to Repay/Qualified Mortgage
- ECOA Valuation
- Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA)
- Home Ownership and Equity Protection Act (HOEPA)
- Loan Originator
- Secure and Fair Enforcement for Mortgage Licensing Act (SAFE Act)
- TILA-RESPA Integrated Disclosure (TRID)
- TILA HPML appraisals
- TILA HPML escrows
- Mortgage Servicing
Consumer lending topics
Registration and submission programs
Certain entities are required by regulation to register or submit information to the Bureau. Please find links to the relevant information below.