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The Director of the Bureau issued a statement accompanying information orders issued to six large technology companies. The Bureau invites public comment.

The Bureau is issuing this proposed rule to implement section 1071 of the Dodd-Frank Act, governing small business lending data collection under ECOA and Regulation B.

The Bureau is issuing this Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to solicit comments and information to assist the Bureau in developing regulations to implement Section 1033 of the Dodd-Frank Act.

The Bureau seeks information to identify opportunities to utilize Tech Sprints as a means to encourage regulatory innovation.

Section 1013(b)(3)(A) of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (Act) requires the Bureau to “facilitate the centralized collection of, monitoring of, and response to consumer complaints regarding consumer financial products or services.”

The Bureau is proposing 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 proposing to rescind mandatory underwriting provisions of the regulation promulgated by the Bureau in November 2017 governing Payday, Vehicle Title, and Certain High-Cost Installment Loans.

This is a Paperwork Reduction Act request to renew without change Office of Management and Budget (OMB) approval for a currently approved generic information collection plan (GICP) titled, “Generic Information Collection Plan for the Collection of Qualitative Feedback on Bureau Service Delivery.

The Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection (Bureau) is seeking comments and information regarding the overall effectiveness and efficiency of its Data Collections and data governance practices.

The Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection (Bureau) is proposing policy guidance that would describe modifications that the Bureau intends to apply to the loan-level HMDA data that financial institutions will report under the Home Mortgage Disclosure (Regulation C) before the data is disclosed to the public.  

In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA), the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection (Bureau) is proposing a new information collection titled, “Student Loan Servicing Market Monitoring.”

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB or Bureau) seeks information about the use or potential use of alternative data and modeling techniques in the credit process. The Bureau seeks to learn more about current and future market developments, including existing and emerging consumer benefits and risks, and how these developments could alter the marketplace and the consumer experience. The Bureau also seeks to learn how market participants are or could be mitigating certain risks to consumers, and about consumer preferences, views, and concerns.  

The Dodd-Frank Act provides for consumer rights to access financial account and account-related data in usable electronic form.  The CFPB is seeking comments from the public about consumer access to such information, including access by entities acting with consumer permission, in connection with the provision of products or services that make use of that information.  

The Bureau proposes amendments to the procedures used by the public to obtain information from the Bureau under the Freedom of Information Act, the Privacy Act of 1974, and in legal proceedings.  The Bureau also proposes amendments to its rule regarding the confidential treatment of Bureau information.

The CFPB seeks feedback on practices and products that are related to but may not be addressed in the Bureau's concurrently published Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on Payday, Vehicle Title, and Certain High-Cost Installment Loans (concurrent proposal).

In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA), the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (Bureau) is proposing to renew the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) approval for an existing information collection titled, “Consumer Leasing Act (Regulation M) 12 CFR 1013.”

In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA), the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (Bureau) is proposing to renew the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) approval for an existing information collection, to revise an existing information collection, titled, “Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (Regulation P) 12 CFR 1016.”

In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA), the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (Bureau) is proposing to renew the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) approval for an existing information collection, titled, “Registration of Mortgage Loan Originators (Regulation G) 12 CFR 1007.”

In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA), the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (Bureau) is requesting new OMB control number information for a collection of information, titled, “Regulation F: Fair Debt Collection Practices Act.”

In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA), the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (Bureau) is requesting to renew the approval for an existing information collection titled, “Mortgage Acts and Practices (Regulation N) 12 CFR 1014.”

In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA), the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (Bureau) is requesting to renew the approval for an existing information collection titled, “Mortgage Assistance Relief Services (Regulation O) 12 CFR part 1015.”

In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA), the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is proposing to renew the approval for an existing information collection titled, “CFPB's Consumer Response Intake Form.”

In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA), the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (Bureau) is requesting to renew the approval for an existing information collection, titled, “CFPB State Official Notification Rule.”

The Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection (Bureau) currently discloses certain complaint data it receives regarding consumer financial products and services via its web-based, public-facing database (Consumer Complaint Database). On July 23, 2014, the Bureau published in the Federal Register a Notice of Proposed Policy Statement with Request for Public Comment (Proposed Policy Statement) proposing to expand its disclosure to include unstructured consumer complaint narrative data (narratives). The Proposed Policy Statement provided a 30-day comment period that will end on August 22, 2014. To allow interested persons additional time to consider and submit their responses, the Bureau has determined that an extension of the comment period until September 22, 2014, is appropriate.

The Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection (“Bureau”) currently discloses certain complaint data it receives regarding consumer financial products and services via its web-based, public-facing database (“Consumer Complaint Database”). The Bureau proposes to expand that disclosure to include unstructured consumer complaint narrative data (“narratives”). Only those narratives for which opt-in consumer consent had been obtained and a robust personal information scrubbing standard and methodology applied would be subject to disclosure. The proposed policy (“Proposed Policy Statement”) would supplement the Bureau's existing Policy Statements establishing and expanding the Consumer Complaint Database.