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Category: Press release CFPB Reports That More Than 50 Million Credit Card Consumers Have Access to Free Credit Scores
Category: Report Consumer voices on credit reports and scores
Category: Press release CFPB Issues Proposal To Facilitate Access To Credit In Rural And Underserved Areas
Category: Report Financial well-being: The goal of financial education
Category: Press release CFPB Report Finds Nearly Half of Borrowers Do Not Shop for a Mortgage
Category: Press release CFPB Report Finds Loopholes In Military Lending Act Rules Rack Up Costs For Servicemembers
Category: Blog Seven ways to keep medical debt in check
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: 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: 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: 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 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 Releases Statement on Department of Defense Proposal to Amend Military Lending Act Rule
Category: Blog We can help you fight improper actions by debt collectors: Venida’s story
Category: Blog Updated mortgage data available
Category: Report Using publicly available information to proxy for unidentified race and ethnicity
Category: Press release CFPB Takes Action Against Auto Finance Company for Distorting Borrower Credit Reports
Category: Office of Research Publication Data point: Checking account overdraft
Category: Report Consumer Response: A snapshot of complaints received
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: 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: Press release CFPB Proposes Rule to Promote More Effective Privacy Disclosures
Category: Blog How to protect vulnerable children from credit reporting problems
Category: Press release CFPB Releases Tools To Protect Foster Care Children From Credit Reporting Problems
Category: Blog Explainer: Federal student loan interest rates to jump
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 Deputy Director Steve Antonakes Remarks at the National Community Reinvestment Coalition Annual Conference
Category: Report Credit reporting complaint snapshot
Category: Blog Now you have better options to dispute a credit report error
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 Save the date: Join us for a Consumer Advisory Board meeting in Washington, D.C.
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: Report Rigorous evaluation of financial capability strategies: Why, when, and how
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 Empowering low income and economically vulnerable consumers
Category: Blog Our new mortgage visualization tool
Category: Speech Director Cordray Remarks at the National Baptist Convention
Category: Press release CFPB Puts Companies on Notice About Duty to Investigate Consumer Credit Report Disputes
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: Blog Good credit – I want that!
Category: Report White paper on payday loans and deposit advance products
Category: Speech Prepared Remarks of Richard Cordray at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago VISA, Inc. Financial Literacy and Education Summit
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: Speech Prepared Remarks of Director Richard Cordray at the National Community Reinvestment Coalition Annual Conference
Category: Speech Prepared Remarks of Richard Cordray Before Independent Community Bankers of America
Category: Speech Remarks of CFPB Acting Deputy Director Steve Antonakes
Category: Blog Is your credit report wrong? How to find out and fix it
Category: Testimony Written Testimony of Corey Stone before the Senate Financial Institutions and Consumer Protection Subcommittee
Category: Report Key Dimensions and Processes in the U.S. Credit Reporting System: A review of how the nation’s largest credit bureaus manage consumer data
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: Report Fair Lending Report of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
Category: Press release Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and Justice Department pledge to work together to protect consumers from credit discrimination
Category: Blog You have a right to see specialty consumer reports too
Category: Press release Consumer Financial Protection Bureau issues warning to nationwide specialty consumer reporting agencies
Category: Press release Agencies Announce Increases in Dollar Thresholds in Regulation Z and M for Exempt Consumer Credit and Lease Transactions
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: Press release CFPB Now Taking Complaints on Credit Reporting
Category: Blog Now accepting credit reporting complaints
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: Blog Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) examination procedures
Category: Press release Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Study Finds Credit Scores Used by Consumers and Lenders Can Differ
Category: Press release Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council Announces Availability of 2011 Data on Mortgage Lending
Category: Press release CFPB Releases Exam Procedures for Consumer Reporting Market
Category: Blog Meet Greg from Michigan
Category: Office of Research Publication Private Student Loans Report
Category: Blog Pushing forward on the CFPB’s financial aid comparison tool
Category: Blog So how many consumer reporting companies are there?
Category: Blog Live from Detroit, MI!