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Category: Press release CFPB Report Finds Nearly Half of Borrowers Do Not Shop for a Mortgage
Category: Blog A New Year’s resolution to conquer your student debt
Category: Press release CFPB Report Finds Loopholes In Military Lending Act Rules Rack Up Costs For Servicemembers
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: Consumer advisories Consumer advisory: Student loan debt relief companies may cost you thousands of dollars and drive you further into debt
Category: Press release CFPB Takes Action to End Student “Debt Relief” Scams
Category: Press release CFPB Spotlights Concerns with Medical Debt Collection and Reporting
Category: Blog Veterans: Take advantage of student loan forgiveness, but don’t let it damage your credit
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: 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 Report Finds Distressed Private Student Loan Borrowers Driven Into Default
Category: Blog Struggling private student loan borrowers are still searching for help
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: Blog Special notice for Corinthian students
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: Blog Student loan debt doesn’t have to be scary: Leah’s story
Category: Blog Working together to protect student veterans
Category: Blog Alerting colleges about secret banking contracts
Category: Report 2014 Financial literacy annual report
Category: Report Consumer Response: A snapshot of complaints received
Category: Blog What happens to your student loans if your school is shut down
Category: Blog We participated in the National Day of Civic Hacking (again)
Category: Testimony Written Testimony of CFPB Director Richard Cordray Before the House Committee on Financial Services
Category: Testimony Written Testimony of Rohit Chopra before the Committee on the Budget
Category: Speech Director Cordray Remarks at the 2014 Boulder Summer Conference on Consumer Financial Decision Making
Category: Speech Statement by CFPB’s Holly Petraeus on DOJ, FDIC Enforcement Actions Against Sallie Mae
Category: Press release CFPB Proposes Rule to Promote More Effective Privacy Disclosures
Category: Report Mid-year report on private student loans 2014
Category: Consumer advisories Consumer advisory: Co-signers can cause surprise defaults on your private student loans
Category: Press release CFPB Finds Private Student Loan Borrowers Face “Auto-Default” When Co-Signer Dies or Goes Bankrupt
Category: Blog Explainer: Federal student loan interest rates to jump
Category: Blog Choosing a college is a big deal. We can help!
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: Speech Prepared Remarks of CFPB Director Richard Cordray at the National Association of State Treasurers
Category: Speech Deputy Director Steve Antonakes Remarks at the National Community Reinvestment Coalition Annual Conference
Category: Speech Prepared Remarks of Deputy Director Antonakes at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta 2014 Banking Outlook Conference
Category: Blog We’re protecting students from predatory lending
Category: Speech Prepared Remarks of CFPB Director Richard Cordray at the National Association of Attorneys General
Category: Speech Prepared Remarks of CFPB Director Richard Cordray at the ITT Enforcement Action Press Conference
Category: Press release CFPB Sues For-Profit College Chain ITT For Predatory Lending
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: Blog New tools to explore mortgage data
Category: Blog We asked about your student loans and you answered
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: Report Rigorous evaluation of financial capability strategies: Why, when, and how
Category: Blog Helping student loan borrowers stay afloat
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: Press release CFPB to Oversee Nonbank Student Loan Servicers
Category: Speech Prepared Remarks of CFPB Director Richard Cordray on the Student Loan Servicer Supervision Rule Press Call
Category: Blog Tell us how you tackle your student debt
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: Speech Prepared Remarks by Rohit Chopra Before the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Category: Testimony Written Testimony of Director Cordray Before the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs
Category: Blog Does your college help you know before you owe?
Category: Press release CFPB Report Highlights Private Student Loan Payment Processing Pitfalls
Category: Consumer advisories Consumer advisory: Stop getting sidetracked by your student loan servicer
Category: Blog Banking on campus forum
Category: Speech Director Cordray Remarks at the CFPB Banking on Campus Forum
Category: Blog You’re invited: Banking on campus
Category: Blog Explainer: scoring student loan servicers
Category: Blog Our new mortgage visualization tool
Category: Blog Reminder: Accessing your scholarships and student loan funds
Category: Blog Save the date: Banking on Campus
Category: Speech Director Cordray Remarks at Students Press Call
Category: Press release CFPB Launches Toolkit to Help Teachers and Other Public Servants Tackle Student Debt
Category: Report Public service and student debt
Category: Blog A closer look at the trillion
Category: Blog What we’re hearing from private student loan borrowers
Category: Report Mid-year snapshot of private student loan complaints
Category: Testimony Hollister K. Petraeus Before the U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
Category: Report Financial literacy annual report
Category: Speech Student Debt Swells, Federal Loans Now Top a Trillion
Category: Report A Snapshot of Complaints Received
Category: Consumer advisories Consumer advisory: You don’t have to pay someone to help with your student loan
Category: Testimony Testimony of Rohit Chopra Before the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs
Category: Blog Explainer: Changes to federal student loan interest rates
Category: Blog Starting a small business when you have student debt
Category: Blog Should I use a home equity loan to refinance my student loans?
Category: Blog The graduate’s guide: Your first job
Category: Press release Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Complaint Data Now Searchable by State
Category: Blog Should I refinance my student loan?
Category: Blog Student Debt Domino Effect?