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Category: Press release CFPB Report Finds Loopholes In Military Lending Act Rules Rack Up Costs For Servicemembers
Category: Press release CFPB Sues Texas Company for Sham Credit Card
Category: Report 2014 College credit card agreements
Category: Blog Sunshine for college credit card agreements
Category: Press release CFPB Report Finds Continued Decline in College Credit Card Agreements
Category: Press release CFPB Spotlights Concerns with Medical Debt Collection and Reporting
Category: Report Study of Prepaid Account Agreements
Category: Report Summary of Findings: Design and Testing of Prepaid Card Fee Disclosures
Category: Report A snapshot of debt collection complaints submitted by older consumers
Category: Press release FFIEC Releases Cybersecurity Assessment Observations, Recommends Participation in Financial Services Information Sharing and Analysis Center
Category: Speech Prepared Remarks of CFPB Director Richard Cordray at University of Michigan Law School
Category: Press release CFPB Report Finds Distressed Private Student Loan Borrowers Driven Into Default
Category: Office of Research Publication Manufactured-housing consumer finance in the U.S.
Category: Blog New Project Catalyst research pilot to study early intervention credit counseling
Category: Press release CFPB Announces Project Catalyst Research Pilot
Category: Blog Updated mortgage data available
Category: Blog Reminder for steps you can take if you think your credit or debit card data was hacked
Category: Blog You could still end up paying interest on a zero percent interest credit card offer
Category: Press release CFPB Warns Credit Card Companies Against Deceptively Marketing Promotional Offers
Category: Office of Research Publication Data point: Checking account overdraft
Category: Office of Research Publication Report on the use of remittance histories in credit scoring
Category: Blog We participated in the National Day of Civic Hacking (again)
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: Testimony Written Testimony of CFPB Director Richard Cordray Before the House Committee on Financial Services
Category: Office of Research Publication Data point: Medical debt and credit scores
Category: Press release CFPB Proposes Rule to Promote More Effective Privacy Disclosures
Category: Blog How to protect vulnerable children from credit reporting problems
Category: Blog Explainer: Federal student loan interest rates to jump
Category: Blog Explainer: Compensating consumers for Bank of America’s illegal tactics for credit card add-on products
Category: Speech Prepared Remarks of CFPB Director Richard Cordray on the Bank of America Enforcement Action Press Call
Category: Press release CFPB Orders Bank Of America To Pay $727 Million In Consumer Relief For Illegal Credit Card Practices
Category: Report 2013 Consumer Response annual report
Category: Office of Research Publication CFPB data point: Payday lending
Category: Speech Director Richard Cordray Remarks at the Payday Field Hearing
Category: Press release CFPB Finds Four Out Of Five Payday Loans Are Rolled Over Or Renewed
Category: Press release Consumers Report Being Hounded About Debts Not Owed
Category: Press release CFPB Calls on Top Credit Card Companies to Make Credit Scores Available to Consumers
Category: Blog We’ve heard more than 300,000 complaints. Should we hear from you?
Category: Blog What sunshine for student financial products can show us
Category: Press release CFPB Takes Steps to Improve Information About Access to Credit in the Mortgage Market
Category: Blog New tools to explore mortgage data
Category: Blog What’s the deal with health care credit cards? Four things you should know
Category: Blog New feedback system for GI Bill and Tuition Assistance recipients
Category: Press release CFPB Issues Consumer Advisory on Industry’s Data Breach
Category: Blog Four steps you can take if you think your credit or debit card data was hacked
Category: Report Rigorous evaluation of financial capability strategies: Why, when, and how
Category: Press release CFPB Orders American Express to Pay $59.5 Million for Illegal Credit Card Practices
Category: Report 2013 College credit card agreements
Category: Blog Sunshine for student financial products
Category: Press release CFPB Calls on Financial Institutions to Publicly Disclose Campus Financial Agreements
Category: Speech Prepared Remarks of CFPB Director Richard Cordray on the CareCredit Enforcement Action Press Call
Category: Press release CFPB Orders GE CareCredit to Refund $34.1 Million for Deceptive Health-Care Credit Card Enrollment
Category: Office of Research Publication Understanding the effects of certain deposit regulations on financial institutions’ operations
Category: Press release The CFPB Finds Financial Education Programs are Significantly Outspent by Financial Marketing
Category: Report CARD Act report
Category: Blog Live from Chicago, Illinois!
Category: Press release CFPB Finds Card Act Reduced Penalty Fees And Made Credit Card Costs Clearer
Category: Speech Director Cordray Remarks at the CARD Act Field Hearing
Category: Speech Statement by CFPB Director Richard Cordray on Chase and JPMorgan Chase Enforcement Action
Category: Press release CFPB Orders Chase and JPMorgan Chase to Pay $309 Million Refund for Illegal Credit Card Practices
Category: Blog Our new mortgage visualization tool
Category: Blog Save the date, Chicago, Illinois!
Category: Blog Reserve la cita, Chicago, Illinois!
Category: Report A Snapshot of Complaints Received
Category: Press release Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Complaint Data Now Searchable by State
Category: Testimony Corey Stone at the Senate Commerce Subcommittee of Consumer Protection, Product Safety, and Insurance
Category: Press release The CFPB Amends Card Act Rule to Make it Easier for Stay-at-Home Spouses and Partners to Get Credit Cards
Category: Testimony Testimony of Richard Cordray at the US Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs
Category: Blog Releasing complaint data about credit cards, mortgages, student loans, bank accounts, services, and other consumer loans
Category: Press release CFPB Releases Largest Collection of Federal Consumer Financial Complaint Data
Category: Report Consumer Response Annual Report
Category: Press release CFPB Finalizes Credit CARD Act Rule
Category: Testimony Director Richard Cordray Before the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs
Category: Blog So, how do I submit a complaint?
Category: Speech Prepared Remarks of Richard Cordray at a Meeting of the National Association of Attorneys General
Category: Speech Prepared Remarks by Richard Cordray at a Consumer Advisory Board meeting
Category: Press release Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Launches Inquiry on Campus Financial Products
Category: Press release CFPB Launches Public Inquiry on the Impact of the CARD Act
Category: Report 2012 College credit card agreements
Category: Press release CFPB Report Details How the Nation’s Largest Credit Bureaus Manage Consumer Data
Category: Speech Prepared Remarks by Richard Cordray on a Credit Reporting White Paper Press Call
Category: Blog Sharing consumer complaint data with state agencies
Category: Press release Agencies Announce Increases in Dollar Thresholds in Regulation Z and M for Exempt Consumer Credit and Lease Transactions
Category: Blog Launching the college credit card agreement database
Category: Press release Federal Housing Finance Agency and Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to Partner on Development of National Mortgage Database
Category: Press release CFPB Report Highlights Problems in Market Discovered Through Supervisory Actions
Category: Op-ed Financially Empowering Stay-at-Home Partners
Category: Press release CFPB Now Taking Complaints on Credit Reporting
Category: Press release CFPB Proposes Making it Easier for Stay-at-Home Spouses and Partners to Get Credit Cards
Category: Blog Updates to the consumer complaint database
Category: Office of Research Publication Analysis of Differences between Consumer- and Creditor-Purchased Credit Scores
Category: Speech Remarks by Kent Markus in an American Express Enforcement Action Press Phone Call
Category: Press release CFPB Orders American Express to Pay $85 Million Refund to Consumers Harmed by Illegal Credit Card Practices
Category: Blog How will the Discover order handle refunds?
Category: Speech Prepared Remarks by Richard Cordray on the Press Call on FDIC and CFPB Joint Enforcement Action
Category: Press release Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Order Discover to Pay $200 Million Consumer Refund for Deceptive Marketing
Category: Speech Prepared Remarks by Richard Cordray at the Corporation for Enterprise Development Conference
Category: Testimony Written Testimony of Richard Cordray Before the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Financial Services
Category: Press release Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council Announces Availability of 2011 Data on Mortgage Lending