A Beginning Today marks an important step forward for the CFPB as we work to protect consumers. Going forward, the CFPB will expand its bank supervision...
The CFPB is accepting mortgage complaints from consumers who have experienced difficulties in the housing market, including problems related to mortgage...
Today, I was appointed by President Obama to serve as the first Director of the Bureau. I am honored by this opportunity to continue my work on behalf of...
According to the Maine Attorney General's Office, there are an estimated 14,000 incidents of elder abuse annually in Maine, and at least 84 percent of them...
This week, the Office of Servicemember Affairs held a special event: a Financial Fitness Forum. We invited representatives from the military, government...
Do you have information about a company that you think has violated federal consumer financial laws? Are you a current or former employee of such a company...
On December 2, 2011, I participated in a White House Latino Community Summit in Miami. The community summit connected senior government officials from...
The CFPB is the first federal agency with the primary mission of making consumer financial markets work for American consumers. Congress charged us with...
Last month, we unveiled two new prototypes for a single mortgage disclosure to replace the HUD-1 Settlement Statement and final Truth-in-Lending disclosure...
As the nation’s first federal agency focused on consumer financial protection, we have been hard at work putting procedures and mechanisms in place to protect you from unfair, deceptive, and abusive financial practices.
On December 7th, Raj Date announced the Bureau's initiative to develop a shorter, simpler credit card agreement that spells out the terms for the consumer...
A credit card agreement is a document that lays out the terms and features of a credit card. Millions of times every year, financial institutions send out...
We've been taking your complaints on credit cards at the CFPB since we officially opened for business on July 21, 2011. Today, we released an interim report...
The Bureau is continuing its commitment to hear from consumers around the country about their experiences with financial products and services. Last month...
For the last month, student loans have kept us pretty busy. We released our Student Debt Repayment Assistant to help borrowers understand their options when...
Since starting work at the Bureau three weeks ago, I have traveled from coast to coast to meet with seniors who have suffered from financial scams. In my...
November 11th is Veterans Day. This week the CFPB took a moment to recognize and honor the veterans in our ranks: 87 of them! We showed photos of them while...
For shoppers, seeing "November" on the calendar means Black Friday – the unofficial start of the holiday shopping season – is just around the corner. Taking...
Last month, as we tested another round of the initial mortgage disclosure, we mentioned that we'd be shifting our focus in the coming months. Today, we...
As a lifetime military family member, I've seen first-hand the devastating impact financial scams and predatory lending can have on our military families. I...
We started Know Before You Owe several months ago to make mortgage disclosure forms easy to understand and easy to compare. The idea was and is that people...
Today's live events have now ended. You can read Raj's full remarks from the University of Minnesota. Be sure to check out the new Know Before You Owe –...
Between the increasing cost of higher education and the impact of the financial crisis, students are more reliant than ever on loans to pay for school. With...
Greetings. I'm Skip Humphrey, and I'm excited to begin work at the Bureau as the head of the Office of Older Americans. I grew up in a household where it...