CFPB News & Analysis
CFPB News & Analysis
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The guidance also underscores consumer rights to obtain access to their own information as well as identities of sources providing data.
January 11 -
The CFPB's plan to block medical debt from appearing on credit reports will have damaging unintended consequences, limiting consumer access to both credit and health care.
January 9 -
Making it easier for consumers to switch between competing banks will increase competition, resulting in major benefits for account holders.
December 29 -
The CFPB needs to think bigger — much bigger — when it comes to writing rules for Section 1033 of the Dodd-Frank Act.
December 25 -
The Justice Department and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau are suing a real estate developer over an alleged bait-and-switch land-sale scheme near Houston. The developer used TikTok and other social media sites to lure Hispanic immigrants into predatory loans, the government alleges.
December 20 -
The resolution to nullify the CFPB's small-business data rule, which would require lenders to collect demographic information before making loans to small-businesses, passed in both chambers with some bipartisan support.
December 20 -
Federal banking agencies should disregard a demand by state attorneys general that national banks be instructed to provide investigators with bank records outside of a court proceeding.
December 19 -
Rep. Andy Barr, R-Ky., is urging the Government Accountability Office to examine the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's credit card late fee proposal.
December 18 -
Banks are perfectly willing to comply with a reasonable data collection standard. The problem is that the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's final rule makes demands far in excess of what the law requires.
December 15 -
While medical debt is not a problem created by the financial services industry, the industry has a critical role to play in addressing it.
December 15