The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau will increase its efforts in 2017 to prevent credit discrimination and improve credit access, according to a blog post published on the CFPB website today. Specifically, the bureau will investigate “redlining” issues to determine whether lenders have intentionally avoided lending in minority neighborhoods. It will also evaluate whether women and minorities experience discrimination when applying for credit, or experience greater difficulty when attempting to work out payment arrangements with servicers for student loans or home mortgages.
ABA, associations respond to Trump’s call for credit card rate cap
President Trump’s proposal for a one-year cap of 10% on credit card interest rates would harm consumers and small businesses by reducing credit availability, ABA and four banking associations said.









