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CFPB guidance documents

From time to time, the CFPB will post letters and other materials providing guidance to industry and members of the public. Documents on this page are generally presented as PDF documents. As much as possible, documents provided by the CFPB are presented as machine-readable PDFs that is, documents that allow you to search, copy, and paste the text they contain.

Supervision and examination manual

The Bureaus Supervision and Examination Manual, issued on October 13, 2011, is a guide to how we will supervise and examine consumer financial service providers under our jurisdiction for compliance with Federal consumer financial law. Weve also issued some updates to the manual: On January 11, 2012, we issued an update regarding mortgage origination examination procedures. On January 19, 2012, we issued an update regarding short-term, small-dollar lending examination procedures. On March 7, 2012, we issued interagency SAFE Act examination procedures for federally regulated depository institutions.

Other guidance documents

April 19, 2012 Bulletin regarding transitional licensing of mortgage loan originators under the SAFE Act 18, 2012 Bulletin regarding lending discrimination 12, 2012 Bulletin regarding service providers 2, 2012 Bulletin regarding the payment of compensation to loan originators 4, 2012 Bulletin regarding the Bureaus supervision authority and treatment of confidential supervisory information 15, 2011 Bulletin regarding whistleblower information, and law enforcement tips, and anti-retaliation protections 17, 2011 Interagency statement for determining asset size of institutions for federal consumer financial law supervisory and enforcement purposes. You can also view a list of depository institutions currently under CFPB

jurisdiction as well as a list of their depository institution affiliates in PDF or MS Excel formats. 7, 2011 Bulletin regarding notice and opportunity to respond and advise prior to enforcement proceedings 16, 2011 Bulletin regarding Ex Parte Presentations in Rulemaking Proceedings 21, 2011 Bulletin regarding the Interstate Land Sales Full Disclosure Act communications with CFPB (updated December 19) 27, 2011 Bulletin regarding Amendments to the Alternative Mortgage Transaction Parity Act (AMTPA) 11, 2011 General Counsel Leonard J. Kennedy letter to financial institutions regarding section 1071 of the Dodd-Frank Act