Final rules

Rules listed here are final rules issued by the CFPB. To identify all the rules related to a single consumer financial product, use the filter tool below.

Types of final rules

 

Final Rule

Other than interim final rules, this includes all CFPB final rules, including procedural and interpretive rules. Generally, final rules go through notice and comment  before issuance.

 

Interim Final Rule

Under some circumstances, the CFPB may issue final rules without a comment period before issuance. The CFPB may request comment on these rules and may later alter the rules, if necessary.

 
Final rule

Prohibition on Creditors and Consumer Reporting Agencies Concerning Medical Information (Regulation V)

The CFPB is finalizing a rule amending Regulation V, which implements the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA), concerning medical information.
  • Credit cards
  • Credit reports and scores
  • Medical debt
  • Mortgages
  • Regulation V
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Civil Penalty Inflation Adjustments

The Bureau is adjusting for inflation the maximum amount of each civil penalty within the Bureau’s jurisdiction.
  • Civil Penalty Fund
  • Enforcement
  • Rulemaking
Final rule

Home Mortgage Disclosure (Regulation C) Adjustment to Asset-Size Exemption Threshold

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (Bureau) is issuing a final rule amending the official commentary that interprets the requirements of the Bureau's Regulation C (Home Mortgage Disclosure) to reflect the asset-size exemption threshold for banks, savings associations, and credit unions based on the annual percentage change in the average of the Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers (CPI-W).
  • Banking
  • Home Mortgage Disclosure Act
  • Mortgages
  • Rulemaking
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Truth in Lending Act (Regulation Z) Adjustment to Asset-Size Exemption Threshold

This rule amends Regulation Z (Truth in Lending) to implement certain amendments to the Truth in Lending Act made by the Dodd-Frank Act. This rule amends the official commentary that interprets the requirements of the Bureau’s Regulation Z (Truth in Lending) to reflect changes in the asset-size thresholds for certain creditors to qualify for an exemption to the requirement to establish an escrow account for a higher-priced mortgage loan. These changes reflect updates to, together with affiliates that regularly extended covered transactions secured by first liens, had total assets of less than $2 billion (adjusted annually for inflation) and the exemption the Bureau added, by implementing section 108 of the Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief, and Consumer Protection Act (EGRRCPA), for certain insured depository institutions and insured credit unions with assets of $10 billion or less (adjusted annually for inflation). These amendments are based on the annual percentage change in the average of the Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers (CPI-W).
  • Banking
  • Mortgage servicing
  • Mortgages
  • Rulemaking
  • Truth in Lending Act (TILA)
Final rule

Residential Property Assessed Clean Energy Financing (Regulation Z)

In this final rule, the CFPB amends Regulation Z to address how the Truth in Lending Act applies to Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) transactions.
  • Mortgages
  • Rulemaking
  • Truth in Lending Act (TILA)
Final rule

Overdraft Lending: Very Large Financial Institutions Final Rule

The CFPB is issuing this final rule to allow consumers to better comparison shop across credit products and provide substantive protections that apply to other consumer credit.
  • Credit cards
  • Debit cards
  • Electronic payments
  • Overdraft
  • Rulemaking
  • Small dollar lending
Final rule

Fair Credit Reporting Act Disclosures Annual Adjustment

This final rule amends an appendix for Regulation V, which implements the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA).
  • Credit reports and scores
  • Fair Credit Reporting Act
Final rule

Defining Larger Participants of a Market for General-Use Digital Consumer Payment Applications

Final rule to establish CFPB authority to supervise and examine larger participants of a market for general-use digital consumer payment applications (funds transfer apps and digital payment wallets.)
  • Compliance
  • Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
  • Electronic payments
  • Financial service providers
  • Money transfers
  • Prepaid cards
  • Rulemaking
  • Supervision
Final rule

Truth in Lending (Regulation Z) Annual Threshold Adjustments (Credit Cards, HOEPA, and Qualified Mortgages)

This final rule revises, as applicable, dollar amounts for provisions implementing TILA and amendments to TILA.
  • Access to credit
  • Credit CARD Act
  • Credit cards
  • Mortgages
  • Truth in Lending Act (TILA)
Final rule

Required Rulemaking on Personal Financial Data Rights

CFPB Issues Required Rulemaking on Personal Financial Data Rights (CFPA section 1033).
  • Banking
  • Checking account
  • Credit cards
  • Data
  • Debit cards
  • Electronic payments
  • Privacy
  • Rulemaking
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Consumer Leasing (Regulation M) Annual Threshold Adjustments

This final rule increases the dollar threshold for exempt consumer leases under Regulation M from $61,000 to $66,400, effective January 1, 2023.
  • Access to credit
  • Regulation M
  • Rulemaking
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Appraisals for Higher-Priced Mortgage Loans Exemption Threshold Adjustments

This final rule increases the dollar threshold exempting certain credit extensions from the special appraisal requirements for higher-priced mortgage loans from $28,500 to $31,000, effective January 1, 2023.
  • Access to credit
  • Banking
  • Mortgages
  • Rulemaking
  • Truth in Lending Act (TILA)
Final rule

Truth in Lending (Regulation Z) Threshold Adjustments

This final rule increases the dollar threshold for certain exempt consumer credit transactions under Regulation Z from $61,000 to $66,400, effective January 1, 2023.
  • Access to credit
  • Mortgages
  • Rulemaking
  • Truth in Lending Act (TILA)
Final rule

Debt Collection Practices (Regulation F); Deceptive and Unfair Collection of Medical Debt

The CFPB is issuing this advisory opinion to remind debt collectors of their obligation to comply with the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act and Regulation F’s prohibitions on false, deceptive, or misleading representations or means in connection with the collection of any medical debt and unfair or unconscionable means to collect or attempt to collect any medical debts.
  • Debt collection
  • Fair Debt Collection Practices Act
  • Medical debt
Final rule

Truth in Lending (Regulation Z); Consumer Protections for Home Sales Financed Under Contracts for Deed

The Truth in Lending Act generally applies to transactions in which a consumer purchases a home under a “contract for deed.”
  • Compliance
  • Mortgages
Final rule

Quality Control Standards for Automated Valuation Models

The final rule implements quality control standards for the use of automated valuation models by mortgage originators and secondary market issuers in determining the collateral worth of a mortgage secured by a consumer’s principal dwelling.
  • Mortgages
Interim final rule

Small Business Lending under the Equal Credit Opportunity Act (Regulation B); Extension of Compliance Dates

Small business lending rule extension of compliance dates
  • Access to credit
  • Business loans
  • Data
  • Discrimination
  • Equal Credit Opportunity Act
  • Fair lending
  • Redlining
  • Regulation B
  • Rulemaking

Consumer Reporting (Regulation V)

Compilation of rules revising Regulation V, 12 CFR part 1022, which implements the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA), to prescribe Federal rules governing the activities of consumer reporting agencies and furnishers of consumer reporting information, as those terms are defined in the FCRA.
  • Credit reports and scores
  • Fair Credit Reporting Act
  • Rulemaking
Final rule

Required Rulemaking on Personal Financial Data Rights; Industry Standard-Setting

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is finalizing in part its proposed rule on consumer data rights under section 1033 of the Consumer Financial Protection Act.
  • Banking
  • Checking account
  • Credit cards
  • Data
  • Debit cards
  • Electronic payments
  • Privacy
  • Rulemaking
Final rule

Registry of Nonbank Covered Persons Subject to Certain Agency and Court Orders

Requires certain nonbank covered persons subject to certain final public orders to report them to a registry and requires certain supervised nonbanks to report annually regarding compliance with registered orders.
  • Compliance
  • Deceptive practices
  • Enforcement
  • Financial service providers
  • Rulemaking
  • Supervision
Final rule

Use of Digital User Accounts to Access Buy Now, Pay Later Loans

The CFPB is issuing this interpretive rule to clarify that lenders clarifies that these lenders are “card issuers” for purposes of Regulation Z because the term “credit card” encompasses digital user accounts that consumers use to access Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL) credit.
  • Regulation Z
  • Truth in Lending Act (TILA)
Final rule

Availability of Funds and Collection of Checks (Regulation CC) Threshold Adjustments

The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and the CFPB are amending Regulation CC, which implements the Expedited Funds Availability Act, to adjust for inflation dollar amounts relating to availability of funds.
  • Banking
  • Rulemaking
Final rule

Procedures for Supervisory Designation Proceedings

The CFPB is updating the CFPB’s procedures for designating nonbank covered persons for supervision, to conform to a recent organizational change and to further ensure that proceedings are fair, effective, and efficient for all parties.
  • Supervision
Final rule

Credit Card Penalty Fees Final Rule

Adopts late fee safe harbor threshold of $8 for Larger Card Issuers and provides annual adjustments to reflect changes in the CPI do not apply to this $8 amount.
  • Credit CARD Act
  • Credit cards
  • Truth in Lending Act (TILA)
Final rule

Supervisory appeals process

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  • Supervision