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Director Chopra joined an event hosted by Deputy Secretary of the Treasury Wally Adeyemo to announce a series of steps that the U.S. government and the financial sector are taking to safeguard risks to the financial system with respect to cloud service providers. The transcript has been slightly edited for clarity.

Director Chopra delivered remarks on a press call to discuss the CFPB’s proposed interpretive rule on emerging paycheck advance comments.

The Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (FFIEC) today published data on 2023 mortgage lending transactions reported under the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA) by 5,113 U.S. financial institutions, including banks, savings associations, credit unions, and mortgage companies.

La CFPB propone nueva normativa para facilitarles a los propietarios de viviendas recibir asistencia, cuando tengan dificultades para pagar sus hipotecas.

The CFPB proposed new rules to make it easier for homeowners to get help when they are struggling to pay their mortgage.

Since late 2021, the CFPB has been analyzing the various vectors where fraud is being perpetrated today and is identifying the new ways where we expect fraud to be perpetrated in the future. Addressing these will require a range of policy tools and private-sector action.

The CFPB took action against repeat offender Fifth Third Bank for a range of illegal activities that would result in the bank paying millions in penalties as well as paying redress to harmed consumers.

The CFPB published an edition of Supervisory Highlights sharing findings from examinations of auto and student loan servicers, debt collectors, medical payment products, and deposit and prepaid accounts.

Borrower survey of mortgage originations

The CFPB issued an interim final rule to extend compliance deadlines for the Section 1071 small business lending rule.

The CFPB ordered a reverse mortgage servicing operation to stop illegal activities that harmed older homeowners and caused them to fear losing their homes.

The CFPB filed a proposed order that would require Freedom Mortgage Corporation to pay a $3.95 million penalty for submitting error-riddled mortgage loan data.

The CFPB filed an order to resolve its lawsuit against James R. and Melissa C. Carnes for fraudulent transfers to avoid paying restitution and penalties.

La CFPB introduce orden para resolver su demanda contra James R. y Melissa C. Carnes por hacer transferencias fraudulentas para evitar pagar reparaciones y multas.

Since the creation of the CFPB, the agency has returned $20.7 billion to consumers through law enforcement activity and created unquantifiable returns for the over 205 million Americans harmed by the illegal practices that we have stopped.

Since the creation of the CFPB, the agency has returned $20.7 billion to consumers through law enforcement activity and created unquantifiable returns for the over 205 million Americans harmed by the illegal practices that we have stopped.

Today, the CFPB proposed a rule that would remove medical bills from most credit reports, increase privacy protections, help to increase credit scores and loan approvals, and prevent debt collectors from using the credit reporting system to coerce people to pay.

Research from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau in 2022 showed that medical collections tradelines appeared on 43 million credit reports, and that 58 percent of bills that were in collections and on people’s credit records were medical bills.

CFPB propone normativa que removería facturas médicas de los informes de crédito, aumentaría protecciones a la privacidad, ayudaría al aumento de los puntajes crediticios y del número de préstamos aprobados, y prevendría que cobradores usen el sistema de reporte del crédito como arma para forzar a la gente a pagar.

CFPB finaliza normativa delineando las calificaciones para el establecimiento de las organizaciones que desarrollarán los estándares de la banca abierta.

Today, the CFPB finalized a rule outlining the qualifications to become a recognized industry standard setting body, which can issue standards that companies can use to help them comply with the CFPB’s upcoming Personal Financial Data Rights Rule.

La CFPB publica circular advirtiendo acerca del uso de términos y condiciones ilegales o incumplibles en contratos de productos o servicios financieros.

The CFPB today issued a circular warning against the use of unlawful or unenforceable terms and conditions in contracts for consumer financial products or services.