Updated mortgage data available
Last year, we released a web-based tool that provides the public with easier access to mortgage data for 2007 through 2012. Today, we're updating the...
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We participated in the National Day of Civic Hacking (again)
During the event, we participated and watched representatives from traditionally disconnected groups work together on some of the most pressing issues...
Explainer: Federal student loan interest rates to jump
While rates aren't set in stone yet, interest rates on new federal student loans are expected to jump this July. We've updated our Paying for College tool...
We’ve heard more than 300,000 complaints. Should we hear from you?
Every complaint helps us in our work to supervise companies, enforce federal consumer financial laws, and write better rules and regulations. You speaking...
New tools to explore mortgage data
Our tool comes loaded with data from the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA). You can use our tool to explore information about loans, lenders, properties...
New feedback system for GI Bill and Tuition Assistance recipients
Today, the CFPB is very pleased to join the Departments of Veterans Affairs, Defense, Education, and Justice, as well as the Federal Trade Commission, in...
Our new mortgage visualization tool
Today, we're launching a set of web-based tools to provide consumers with easier access to public HMDA data. We're excited to see what you do, and encourage...
Releasing complaint data about credit cards, mortgages, student loans, bank accounts, services, and other consumer loans
What are you going to make with #CFPBdata? Last summer, we launched our Consumer Complaint Database featuring data about credit card complaints. Today...
Sharing consumer complaint data with state agencies
We help consumers with complaints about credit cards, mortgages, student loans, checking accounts, savings accounts, credit reporting, bank services, and...
Updates to the consumer complaint database
We're excited to announce that we're no longer in beta with our consumer complaint database. We launched the beta version on June 19th publishing...
Pushing forward on the CFPB’s financial aid comparison tool
This past year, we've been working with the Department of Education on a project to help colleges provide clear and comparable financial aid information...
Design+Technology Fellows: Changing the way government works
Technology and innovation are fundamental to the ability of this 21st-century agency to achieve our consumer protection mission. That's why we're launching...
Protecting Older Americans from financial abuse
We took an important step today towards looking out for older American consumers. Director Richard Cordray announced a public inquiry to learn more about...
Thousands of voices on private student loans
This past winter, we issued a Request for Information to hear about people's experiences with private student loans. We have now published the nearly 2,000...
Credit card complaints, by the numbers
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...
Mortgage Disclosure Is Heating Up
Previously, we talked about participation by people from locations all over the country in the Know Before You Owe project. Today, we want to share some...
The CARD Act Conference: What We Learned
Last month, one year after the date that many CARD Act provisions took effect, the CFPB held a conference on the credit card marketplace. Credit card...
Asking the public about the CARD Act
Yesterday's CARD Act conference commemorated the first anniversary of the day when many provisions of the Credit CARD Act went into effect. Industry...
The Credit CARD Act turns one
One year ago many provisions of the Credit CARD Act took effect. To mark this occasion, the CFPB held a conference to examine what has happened in the past...