Rules listed here are final rules issued by the CFPB. To identify all the rules related to a single consumer financial product, use the filter tool below.
Other than interim final rules, this includes all CFPB final rules, including procedural and interpretive rules. Generally, final rules go through notice and comment before issuance.
Under some circumstances, the CFPB may issue final rules without a comment period before issuance. The CFPB may request comment on these rules and may later alter the rules, if necessary.
The Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection (Bureau) is issuing this interpretive rule to provide guidance to creditors and other covered persons involved in the mortgage origination process in light of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The final rule adjusts Regulation C’s institutional and transactional coverage thresholds for closed-end mortgage loans and open-end lines of credit.
The Bureau is issuing this interpretive rule to provide guidance to government agencies distributing aid to consumers in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Policy statement to announce a new Bureau guidance designation, known as “Compliance Aids,” and to explain the legal status of that guidance designation.
The Bureau is amending the official commentary that interprets the requirements of the Bureau’s Regulation Z (Truth in Lending) to reflect a change in the asset-size threshold for certain creditors to qualify for an exemption to the requirement to establish an escrow account for a higher-priced mortgage loan based on the annual percentage change in the average of the Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers (CPI-W) for the 12-month period ending in November.
The Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection (Bureau) is issuing a final rule amending the official commentary that interprets the requirements of the Bureau's Regulation C (Home Mortgage Disclosure) to reflect the asset-size exemption threshold for banks, savings associations, and credit unions based on the annual percentage change in the average of the Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers (CPI-W).
The Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection (Bureau) announces that the ceiling on allowable charges under section 612(f) of the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) will increase to $13.00, effective for 2021.
This interpretive rule construes Regulation Z, which implements the Truth in Lending Act (TILA).
The Bureau is amending Regulation C to extend to January 1, 2022 the threshold of 500 open-end lines of credit for reporting data about open-end lines of credit and to incorporate into Regulation C the partial exemptions created by the Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief, and Consumer Protection Act.
The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau are amending Regulation CC, which implements the Expedited Funds Availability Act, to adjust dollar amounts to inflation and to extend coverage to American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and Guam.
The Bureau has issued this final rule to delay the August 19, 2019 compliance date for the mandatory underwriting provisions of the regulation promulgated by the Bureau in November 2017 governing Payday, Vehicle Title, and Certain High-Cost Installment Loans.
The Bureau is issuing technical specifications for submissions of prepaid account agreements, as required by the Bureau’s 2016 final rule regarding prepaid accounts (as subsequently amended).
This final rule amends the procedures used to obtain information from the Bureau under the FOIA, the Privacy Act of 1974, and in legal proceedings.
The Bureau is issuing an interim final rule to update the Bureau’s model forms for the Summary of Consumer Identity Theft Rights and the Summary of Consumer Rights in Appendices I and K to Regulation V to incorporate a notice required by new Fair Credit Reporting Act section 605A(i)(5), added by the Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief, and Consumer Protection Act.
The Bureau is issuing an interpretive and procedural rule to implement and clarify the requirements of section 104(a) of the Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief, and Consumer Protection Act, which amended certain provisions of the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act.
The Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection (Bureau) is amending Regulation P to implement a December 2015 statutory amendment to the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act providing an exception to the annual notice requirement, for financial institutions that meet certain conditions.
The Bureau is amending Federal mortgage disclosure requirements under RESPA and TILA that are implemented in Regulation Z.
The Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection (Bureau) issued a rule amending certain Regulation Z mortgage servicing rules issued in 2016 relating to periodic statements. These amendments revise the timing requirements for servicers transitioning between modified or unmodified periodic statements and coupon books in connection with a consumer’s bankruptcy case.
The Bureau is finalizing amendments to its rule governing prepaid accounts under Regulations E and Z that make modifications to several aspects of that rule and extend the overall effective date of the rule to April 1, 2019.
The Bureau is publishing a Federal Register notice pursuant to section 706(e) of the Equal Credit Opportunity Act concerning the update of the redesigned Uniform Residential Loan Application (URLA) to include an applicant language preference question.
The Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection has issued this final rule to create consumer protections for payday loans, and for certain vehicle title and high-cost installment loans.
The Bureau issued an interim final rule amending a provision in Regulation X that it issued in 2016 relating to the timing for mortgage servicers to provide modified written early intervention notices to borrowers who have invoked their cease communication rights under the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act.
The Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection is issuing a final rule that amends Regulation B to permit creditors additional flexibility in complying with Regulation B in order to facilitate compliance with Regulation C, adds certain model forms and removes others from Regulation B, and makes various other amendments to Regulation B and its commentary to facilitate the collection and retention of information about the ethnicity, sex, and race of certain mortgage applicants.
The Bureau has issued this final rule to amend the Supplemental Standards of Ethical Conduct for Employees of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
Pursuant to section 1028(b) of the Dodd-Frank Act, the Bureau issued a final rule establishing 12 CFR part 1040 to regulate arbitration agreements in contracts for specified consumer financial product and services.
