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Category: Press release CFPB Report Finds Continued Decline in College Credit Card Agreements
Category: Blog Live from Oklahoma City!
Category: Consumer advisories Consumer advisory: Student loan debt relief companies may cost you thousands of dollars and drive you further into debt
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: Press release CFPB Spotlights Concerns with Medical Debt Collection and Reporting
Category: Speech Prepared Remarks of CFPB Director Richard Cordray at the Medical Debt Collection Hearing
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 Veterans: Take advantage of student loan forgiveness, but don’t let it damage your credit
Category: Press release CFPB Takes Action Against Franklin Loan Corporation for Steering Consumers into Costlier Mortgages
Category: Press release CFPB Supervision Report Highlights Risky Practices in Student Loan Servicing
Category: Report Supervisory Highlights: Fall 2014
Category: Speech Prepared Remarks of CFPB Director Richard Cordray at University of Michigan Law School
Category: Press release CFPB Finalizes Minor Changes to Mortgage Rules to Ensure Access to Credit
Category: Press release CFPB Report Finds Distressed Private Student Loan Borrowers Driven Into Default
Category: Blog Struggling private student loan borrowers are still searching for help
Category: Blog Know Before You Owe: Proposed updates to TILA-RESPA final rule
Category: Speech CFPB Director Richard Cordray’s Prepared Lecture on Economic Rights as Civil Rights at Michigan State University
Category: Speech Prepared Remarks of CFPB Director Richard Cordray at Forum on Access to Checking Accounts
Category: Blog Save the date: Join us for a Community Bank Advisory Council meeting in Washington, D.C.
Category: Blog Encontrando la ayuda que necesitas, en el idioma que entiendes – La historia de Higinio
Category: Blog Getting the help you need, in the language you understand – Higinio’s story
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: Press release CFPB Releases Statement on Department of Defense Proposal to Amend Military Lending Act Rule
Category: Blog New Project Catalyst research pilot to study early intervention credit counseling
Category: Press release CFPB Announces Project Catalyst Research Pilot
Category: Blog We can help you fight improper actions by debt collectors: Venida’s story
Category: Speech Prepared Remarks of CFPB Director Richard Cordray at the Announcement on Public Service and Student Debt
Category: Blog Updated mortgage data available
Category: Press release Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council Announces Availability of 2013 Data on Mortgage Lending
Category: Blog Live from Indianapolis!
Category: Speech Prepared Remarks of CFPB Director Richard Cordray at the Auto Finance Field Hearing
Category: Report Supervisory Highlights: Summer 2014
Category: Report Using publicly available information to proxy for unidentified race and ethnicity
Category: Press release CFPB Proposes New Federal Oversight of Nonbank Auto Finance Companies
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: Blog Special notice for Corinthian students
Category: Blog Protecting servicemembers from predatory auto loans: Harry and Ari’s story
Category: Speech Prepared Remarks of CFPB Director Richard Cordray on the Corinthian Enforcement Action Press Call
Category: Press release CFPB Sues For-Profit Corinthian Colleges for Predatory Lending Scheme
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 Reminder for steps you can take if you think your credit or debit card data was hacked
Category: Speech Prepared Remarks of CFPB Deputy Director Steve Antonakes at the American Mortgage Conference
Category: Blog You could still end up paying interest on a zero percent interest credit card offer
Category: Blog Student loan debt doesn’t have to be scary: Leah’s story
Category: Press release CFPB Warns Credit Card Companies Against Deceptively Marketing Promotional Offers
Category: Blog Updated: Save the date, Indianapolis!
Category: Blog Working together to protect student veterans
Category: Press release CFPB Announces Mortgage EClosing Pilot Participants
Category: Speech Prepared Remarks of CFPB Director Richard Cordray on the First Investors Press Call
Category: Press release CFPB Takes Action Against Auto Finance Company for Distorting Borrower Credit Reports
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: Office of Research Publication Data point: Checking account overdraft
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 Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Issues Guidance Regarding Brokers Shifting To “Mini-Correspondent” Model
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: Office of Research Publication Report on the use of remittance histories in credit scoring
Category: Blog What happens to your student loans if your school is shut down
Category: Speech Prepared Remarks of CFPB Director Richard Cordray on the GE Capital Enforcement Action Press Call
Category: Press release CFPB Orders GE Capital to Pay $225 Million in Consumer Relief for Deceptive and Discriminatory Credit Card Practices
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: 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 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: 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