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Category: Report Fair Lending Report 2013
Category: Blog Our work on fair lending
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: 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: Testimony Meredith Fuchs Before the House Committee on Financial Services
Category: Report Fair Debt Collection Practices Act annual report
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: Press release CFPB Takes Action Against Mortgage Lender for Illegal Payments
Category: Blog What sunshine for student financial products can show us
Category: Blog We asked about your student loans and you answered
Category: Report Supervisory Highlights: Winter 2013
Category: Blog New feedback system for GI Bill and Tuition Assistance recipients
Category: Press release CFPB Takes Action Against PHH Corporation for Mortgage Insurance Kickbacks
Category: Testimony Written Testimony of CFPB Director Richard Cordray Before the House Committee on Financial Services
Category: Press release CFPB Takes Action Against Mortgage Kickbacks
Category: Blog Helping student loan borrowers stay afloat
Category: Press release CFPB and DOJ Take Action Against National City Bank for Discriminatory Mortgage Pricing
Category: Press release CFPB Orders American Express to Pay $59.5 Million for Illegal Credit Card Practices
Category: Speech Prepared Remarks of Director Richard Cordray on the Ally Enforcement Action Press Call
Category: Blog Ally to repay $80 million to consumers it discriminated against
Category: Press release CFPB and DOJ Order Ally to Pay $80 Million to Consumers Harmed by Discriminatory Auto Loan Pricing
Category: Speech Prepared Remarks of CFPB Director Richard Cordray on the Ocwen Enforcement Action Press Call
Category: Blog Explainer: What the multi-billion dollar Ocwen enforcement action means for you
Category: Press release CFPB, State Authorities Order Ocwen to Provide $2 Billion in Relief to Homeowners for Servicing Wrongs
Category: Press release CFPB Sues CashCall for Illegal Online Loan Servicing
Category: Speech Prepared Remarks of CFPB Director Richard Cordray on the CashCall Enforcement Action Press Call
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: 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: Blog Our first enforcement action against a payday lender
Category: Press release Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Takes Action Against Payday Lender For Robo-Signing
Category: Testimony Hollister K. Petraeus Before the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science & Transportation
Category: Speech Prepared Remarks by Rohit Chopra Before the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Category: Press release The CFPB Takes Action Against Mortgage Insurer to End Illegal Kickbacks to Lenders
Category: Testimony Written Testimony of Director Cordray Before the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs
Category: Press release CFPB Takes Action Against Castle & Cooke For Steering Consumers Into Costlier Mortgages
Category: Press release CFPB Files Suit Against Borders & Borders, PLC for Paying Illegal Real Estate Kickbacks
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: Press release CFPB Takes Action Against Meracord for Processing Illegal Debt-Settlement Fees
Category: Blog Explainer: scoring student loan servicers
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 Explainer: How does the Chase order handle refunds?
Category: Blog Reminder: Accessing your scholarships and student loan funds
Category: Report Public service and student debt
Category: Report Supervisory Highlights: Summer 2013
Category: Press release CFPB Files Suit Against Morgan Drexen for Charging Illegal Fees and Deceiving Consumers
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: Press release CFPB Takes Action Against Castle & Cooke for Paying Employees to Steer Consumers into Expensive Mortgages
Category: Report Financial literacy annual report
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: Speech Director Cordray Remarks on MILES Enforcement Press Call
Category: Press release CFPB Orders Auto Lenders to Refund Approximately $6.5 Million to Servicemembers
Category: Blog Order: Auto loan program partners to refund about $6.5 million to servicemembers
Category: Blog Encouraging “responsible conduct” in enforcement investigations
Category: Blog Explainer: Changes to federal student loan interest rates
Category: Blog Should I use a home equity loan to refinance my student loans?
Category: Press release CFPB Takes Action to Stop Florida Company From Engaging in Illegal Debt-Relief Practices
Category: Press release The CFPB Takes Action Against Real Estate Kickbacks
Category: Blog Should I refinance my student loan?
Category: Press release CFPB Report Highlights Student Debt as a Roadblock to Opportunity for Consumers
Category: Report Student loan affordability
Category: Blog Live from Miami-Dade, Florida
Category: Press release CFPB Takes Action Against Two Companies for Charging Illegal Debt-Relief Fees
Category: Blog The best legal externship money can’t buy
Category: Speech Prepared Remarks of CFPB Director Richard Cordray at the SDNY Enforcement Press Conference
Category: Blog Save the date, Miami-Dade County, Florida!
Category: Press release The CFPB Takes Action Against Mortgage Insurers to End Kickbacks to Lenders
Category: Speech Press Call on Enforcement Action Against Mortgage Insurers to End Kickbacks to Lenders
Category: Report Consumer Response Annual Report
Category: Blog Reminder: Sound off on our student loan affordability initiative
Category: Blog Our proposed rule on student loan servicers
Category: Press release CFPB Proposes Rule to Oversee Nonbank Student Loan Servicers
Category: Blog What can students do to protect themselves?
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: Blog Student debt and schools
Category: Blog Student debt and health care
Category: Blog Help stop the student debt domino effect
Category: Press release Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Takes First Step to Develop Student Loan Affordability Plan
Category: Blog Partnering in an information sharing agreement with the Navajo Nation to protect tribal consumers
Category: Press release CFPB and State Partners Obtain Refunds for Consumers Charged Illegal Debt-Relief Fees
Category: Blog A joint enforcement action with states to stop illegal advance fees
Category: Press release CFPB Releases Exam Procedures for Student Loans
Category: Blog Paying for college [beta]