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Category: Blog Tax season is here
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: Blog Food for thought at your Thanksgiving table
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: Blog Forum on access to checking accounts
Category: Speech Prepared Remarks of CFPB Director Richard Cordray at Forum on Access to Checking Accounts
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 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: Report Using publicly available information to proxy for unidentified race and ethnicity
Category: Blog Save the date: Join us for a forum on access to checking accounts
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: Blog Helping build financial capability across America
Category: Report 2014 Financial literacy annual report
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: Speech Deputy Director Steve Antonakes Remarks at the National Community Reinvestment Coalition Annual Conference
Category: Press release CFPB Calls on Top Credit Card Companies to Make Credit Scores Available to Consumers
Category: Blog Set a goal, make a plan, and save automatically
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 Getting a grip on income tax season
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: Blog How much money is spent on advertising financial products?
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: 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: Speech Director Cordray Remarks at the National Baptist Convention
Category: Blog A federal partnership to increase financial capability for workers with disabilities
Category: Report Financial literacy annual report
Category: Blog Our first financial literacy report to Congress
Category: Report A Snapshot of Complaints Received
Category: Press release Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Complaint Data Now Searchable by State
Category: Speech Director Cordray Remarks at the FINRA Investor Education Conference
Category: Testimony Corey Stone at the Senate Commerce Subcommittee of Consumer Protection, Product Safety, and Insurance
Category: Report Transforming the financial lives of a generation of young Americans
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: Press release CFPB Releases Largest Collection of Federal Consumer Financial Complaint Data
Category: Report Consumer Response Annual Report
Category: Blog Our progress on financial education
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: Speech Prepared Remarks of Richard Cordray Before Independent Community Bankers of America
Category: Speech Remarks of CFPB Acting Deputy Director Steve Antonakes