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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: Press release CFPB Takes Action Against Auto Finance Company for Distorting Borrower Credit Reports
Category: Report Consumer Response: A snapshot of complaints received
Category: Blog Ensuring equal treatment for same-sex married couples
Category: Office of Research Publication Report on the use of remittance histories in credit scoring
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: 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: 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 Our work on fair lending
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: 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 What sunshine for student financial products can show us
Category: Blog Save the date: Join us for a Consumer Advisory Board meeting in Washington, D.C.
Category: Press release CFPB Takes Steps to Improve Information About Access to Credit in the Mortgage Market
Category: Blog What’s the deal with health care credit cards? Four things you should know
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: Blog Ally to repay $80 million to consumers it discriminated against
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 Empowering low income and economically vulnerable consumers
Category: Blog Preventing illegal discrimination in auto lending
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 Save the date, Chicago, Illinois!
Category: Blog Reserve la cita, Chicago, Illinois!
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 CFPB Releases Exam Procedures for New Mortgage Rules
Category: Testimony Corey Stone at the Senate Commerce Subcommittee of Consumer Protection, Product Safety, and Insurance
Category: Blog Good credit – I want that!
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: Report White paper on payday loans and deposit advance products
Category: Testimony Testimony of Richard Cordray at the US Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs
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: Report Consumer Response Annual Report
Category: Speech Prepared Remarks of Director Richard Cordray at the National Community Reinvestment Coalition Annual Conference
Category: Press release CFPB Finalizes Credit CARD Act Rule
Category: Press release CFPB to Hold Auto Lenders Accountable for Illegal Discriminatory Markup
Category: Speech Prepared Remarks of Richard Cordray Before Independent Community Bankers of America
Category: Speech Remarks of CFPB Acting Deputy Director Steve Antonakes
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: Blog Is your credit report wrong? How to find out and fix it
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: Testimony Written Testimony of Corey Stone before the Senate Financial Institutions and Consumer Protection Subcommittee
Category: Report 2012 College credit card agreements
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: Report Fair Lending Report of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
Category: Blog Fulfilling our fair lending mandate
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: Blog Launching the college credit card agreement 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: 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: 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 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: 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