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Category: Report Overseas & Underserved: Student loan servicing and the cost to our men and women in uniform
Category: Press release CFPB Report Finds Servicemembers Continue To Face Roadblocks From Student Loan Servicers
Category: Report 2015 Mid-Year Update on Student Loan Complaints
Category: Press release CFPB Finds 90 Percent of Private Student Loan Borrowers Who Applied for Co-Signer Release Were Rejected
Category: Speech Prepared Remarks of CFPB Director Richard Cordray at the ROADS to Financial Independence Launch
Category: Blog Working to improve the financial lives of people with disabilities
Category: Press release CFPB Launches Financial Well-Being Initiative Targeted To People With Disabilities
Category: Blog The launch of the CFPB financial coaching initiative
Category: Speech Prepared Remarks of CFPB Director Richard Cordray at the Field Hearing on Student Loans
Category: Blog Live from Milwaukee!
Category: Blog Tell us about your student debt stress
Category: Press release CFPB Launches Public Inquiry Into Student Loan Servicing Practices
Category: Blog Income from the Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher Homeownership Program shouldn’t mean you don’t qualify for a mortgage
Category: Speech Prepared Remarks of CFPB Director Richard Cordray at the Academic Research Council
Category: Blog Reminder: What happens to your student loans if your school is shut down
Category: Office of Research Publication Data point: Credit invisibles
Category: Blog Save the date, Milwaukee!
Category: Report Fair Lending Report 2014
Category: Blog Here’s what we’re hearing from Servicemembers and their families
Category: Speech Prepared Remarks of CFPB Director Richard Cordray at the Ohio College Presidents’ Conference
Category: Blog More financial empowerment tools for communities
Category: Press release CFPB Finalizes Rule Aimed at Improving Credit Card Agreement Submission Process
Category: Press release CFPB and Navajo Nation Take Action to Stop an Illegal Tax-Refund Scheme
Category: Press release CFPB Launches Public Inquiry to Inform Agency Review of the Credit Card Market
Category: Blog Here’s why you should open a savings account for your kids
Category: Blog We took a look at arbitration agreements and here’s what we found
Category: Press release CFPB Study Finds That Arbitration Agreements Limit Relief for Consumers
Category: Report Arbitration Study: Report to Congress 2015
Category: Speech Prepared Remarks of CFPB Director Richard Cordray at the President’s Advisory Council
Category: Press release CFPB Seeks to Improve Process for Industry Submission of Consumer Credit Card Agreements
Category: Blog You’ve got goals for your life—and some of them take money to achieve
Category: Blog No-sweat ways to help kids start out strong, financially
Category: Press release CFPB Orders Subprime Credit Card Company to Refund $2.7 Million for Charging Illegal Credit Card Fees
Category: Blog Special announcement for Corinthian students
Category: Press release CFPB Takes Action to Shut Down Sham Credit Card
Category: Blog Seeking answers for struggling student loan borrowers
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: Op-ed What we really need to be better off financially
Category: Blog 4 elements define personal financial well-being
Category: Press release CFPB Releases Safe Student Account Scorecard
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: 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: Blog Evaluating ways to promote regular saving habits among prepaid card users
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 Food for thought at your Thanksgiving table
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: Press release CFPB Supervision Report Highlights Risky Practices in Student Loan Servicing
Category: Report Supervisory Highlights: Fall 2014
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: Blog Struggling private student loan borrowers are still searching for help
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: Blog Promoting saving at tax time
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: Speech Prepared Remarks of CFPB Director Richard Cordray at the Announcement on Public Service and Student Debt
Category: Report Using publicly available information to proxy for unidentified race and ethnicity
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 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: Blog Student loan debt doesn’t have to be scary: Leah’s story
Category: Press release CFPB Warns Credit Card Companies Against Deceptively Marketing Promotional Offers
Category: Blog Working together to protect student veterans
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: 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 What happens to your student loans if your school is shut down
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: Testimony Written Testimony of Rohit Chopra before the Committee on the Budget
Category: Office of Research Publication Data point: Medical debt and credit scores
Category: Speech Director Cordray Remarks at the 2014 Boulder Summer Conference on Consumer Financial Decision Making
Category: Blog How to protect vulnerable children from credit reporting problems
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