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Category: Report Consumers’ Mortgage Shopping Experience
Category: Blog Nearly half of mortgage borrowers don’t shop around when they buy a home
Category: Press release CFPB Report Finds Nearly Half of Borrowers Do Not Shop for a Mortgage
Category: Blog Are unpaid debts a military career-killer?
Category: Press release CFPB and States Take Action Against Freedom Stores for Illegal Debt Collection Practices Against Servicemembers
Category: Blog Freedom Stores to provide over $2.5 million in refunds and penalties
Category: Blog Sunshine for college credit card agreements
Category: Blog Evaluating ways to promote regular saving habits among prepaid card users
Category: Blog Live from Oklahoma City!
Category: Blog Seven ways to keep medical debt in check
Category: Press release CFPB Takes Action to End Student “Debt Relief” Scams
Category: Report Consumer credit reports: A study of medical and non-medical collections
Category: Blog Here’s how medical debt hurts your credit report
Category: Blog Save the date and call for research papers
Category: Blog Save the date, Oklahoma City!
Category: Blog Fall 2014 rulemaking agenda
Category: Blog Proposed changes to our Mortgage Servicing Rules: New protections for surviving family members and other homeowners
Category: Speech Prepared Remarks of CFPB Director Richard Cordray at The Clearing House
Category: Press release CFPB Proposes Expanded Foreclosure Protections
Category: Press release CFPB Takes First Action Against ‘Buy-Here, Pay-Here’ Auto Dealer
Category: Blog Social Security disability income shouldn’t mean you don’t qualify for a mortgage
Category: Press release CFPB Provides Guidance to Help Lenders Avoid Discrimination Against Consumers Receiving Disability Income
Category: Blog Prepaid products: New disclosures to help you compare options
Category: Press release CFPB Takes Action Against Franklin Loan Corporation for Steering Consumers into Costlier Mortgages
Category: Press release CFPB Report Finds Debt Collection Tops Older Consumer Complaints
Category: Report A snapshot of debt collection complaints submitted by older consumers
Category: Press release CFPB Supervision Report Highlights Risky Practices in Student Loan Servicing
Category: Report Supervisory Highlights: Fall 2014
Category: Blog Final lists of rural and rural or underserved counties for use in 2015
Category: Speech Prepared Remarks of CFPB Director Richard Cordray at University of Michigan Law School
Category: Blog Live from Long Beach!
Category: Press release CFPB Finalizes Minor Changes to Mortgage Rules to Ensure Access to Credit
Category: Press release CFPB Finalizes Rule to Promote More Effective Privacy Disclosures
Category: Blog Know Before You Owe: Proposed updates to TILA-RESPA final rule
Category: Blog Save the date, Long Beach!
Category: Blog Promoting saving at tax time
Category: Blog Save the date: Join us for a Community Bank Advisory Council meeting in Washington, D.C.
Category: Office of Research Publication Manufactured-housing consumer finance in the U.S.
Category: Press release CFPB Takes Action Against Mortgage Kickback Agreements
Category: Press release CFPB Finds Majority of Manufactured-Housing Borrowers Have Expensive Loans
Category: Speech Prepared Remarks of CFPB Director Richard Cordray on the Flagstar Enforcement Action Press Call
Category: Press release CFPB Takes Action Against Flagstar Bank for Violating New Mortgage Servicing Rules
Category: Blog New Project Catalyst research pilot to study early intervention credit counseling
Category: Blog We can help you fight improper actions by debt collectors: Venida’s story
Category: Blog Updated mortgage data available
Category: Press release Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council Announces Availability of 2013 Data on Mortgage Lending
Category: Blog Save the date: Join us for a Credit Union Advisory Council meeting in Washington, D.C.
Category: Report Using publicly available information to proxy for unidentified race and ethnicity
Category: Speech Prepared Remarks of CFPB Director Richard Cordray on the Hydra Group Enforcement Action Press Call
Category: Press release CFPB Sues Online Payday Lender for Cash-Grab Scam
Category: Blog El administrador de negociación del National City Bank pronto se pondrá en contacto con los prestatarios elegibles
Category: Blog National City Bank settlement administrator will contact eligible borrowers soon
Category: Speech Prepared Remarks of CFPB Director Richard Cordray on the Corinthian Enforcement Action Press Call
Category: Press release Agencies Announce Increases in Dollar Thresholds in Regulations Z and M for Exempt Consumer Credit and Lease Transactions
Category: Testimony Written Testimony of CFPB Director Richard Cordray Before the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs
Category: Blog Disputing debt you never owed: William’s story
Category: Speech Prepared Remarks of CFPB Deputy Director Steve Antonakes at the American Mortgage Conference
Category: Press release CFPB Takes Action Against Global Client Solutions for Processing Illegal Debt-Settlement Fees
Category: Press release CFPB Announces Mortgage EClosing Pilot Participants
Category: Press release CFPB Issues Bulletin to Prevent Runarounds in Mortgage Servicing Transfers
Category: Press release CFPB Orders Amerisave To Pay $19.3 Million For Bait-And-Switch Mortgage Scheme
Category: Press release CFPB Finds Small Debit Purchases Lead to Expensive Overdraft Charges
Category: Office of Research Publication Data point: Checking account overdraft
Category: Speech Prepared Remarks of CFPB Director Richard Cordray on the Overdraft Data Point Press Call
Category: Testimony Written Testimony of CFPB Director Richard Cordray Before the House Committee on Financial Services Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigation
Category: Press release CFPB Proposes Rule to Improve Information About Access to Credit in the Mortgage Market
Category: Press release CFPB, FTC and States Announce Sweep Against Foreclosure Relief Scammers
Category: Speech Prepared Remarks of CFPB Deputy Director Steve Antonakes on the MARS Enforcement Action Press Call
Category: Consumer advisories Consumer advisory: Don’t fall for a foreclosure relief scam or bogus legal help
Category: Report Consumer Response: A snapshot of complaints received
Category: Press release CFPB Files Suit Against Debt Collection Lawsuit Mill
Category: Press release Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Issues Guidance Regarding Brokers Shifting To “Mini-Correspondent” Model
Category: Press release CFPB Takes Action Against ACE Cash Express for Pushing Payday Borrowers Into Cycle of Debt
Category: Speech Prepared Remarks of CFPB Director Richard Cordray at the ACE Cash Express Enforcement Action Press Call
Category: Press release CFPB Clarifies Mortgage Lending Rules to Assist Surviving Family Members
Category: Blog We’re training housing counselors on the new mortgage servicing rules
Category: Blog Claim forms for the Ocwen settlement available now
Category: Blog We participated in the National Day of Civic Hacking (again)
Category: Blog Live from Reno!
Category: Speech Prepared Remarks of CFPB Deputy Director Steve Antonakes at the Consumer Advisory Board Meeting
Category: Testimony Written Testimony of CFPB Director Richard Cordray Before the House Committee on Financial Services
Category: Press release CFPB, Federal Partners, and State Attorneys General File Order Requiring SunTrust to Provide $540 Million in Relief to Homeowners for Servicing Wrongs
Category: Press release CFPB Takes Action Against Illegal Mortgage Referrals
Category: Testimony Written Testimony of CFPB Director Richard Cordray Before the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs
Category: Speech Prepared Remarks of CFPB Deputy Director Steve Antonakes at the American Bankers Association Regulatory Compliance Conference
Category: Testimony Written Testimony of Rohit Chopra before the Committee on the Budget
Category: Press release CFPB Takes Action Against RealtySouth for Mortgage Disclosure Violations
Category: Blog Spring 2014 rulemaking agenda
Category: Press release CFPB Supervision Report Highlights Risky Practices In Nonbank Markets
Category: Press release CFPB Study Finds Medical Debt Overly Penalizes Consumer Credit Scores
Category: Speech Prepared Remarks of CFPB Director Richard Cordray on the Medical Debt Study Press Call
Category: Office of Research Publication Data point: Medical debt and credit scores
Category: Blog Our Board and Council meetings are changing
Category: Speech Director Cordray Remarks at the 2014 Boulder Summer Conference on Consumer Financial Decision Making
Category: Blog Truth in Lending rule now available in easier-to-navigate format
Category: Speech Prepared Remarks of CFPB Director Richard Cordray at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
Category: Blog Three things to keep your retirement plan on track
Category: Report Snapshot of older consumers and mortgage debt
Category: Press release CFPB Spotlights Mortgage Debt Challenges Faced By Older Americans
Category: Press release CFPB Proposes Minor Changes to Mortgage Rules to Ensure Access to Credit