Overview of Proposed Statement

• The CFPB currently discloses certain complaint data it receives regarding consumer financial products and services via its public database.

• The CFPB proposes to expand that disclosure to include unstructured consumer complaint narrative data. Only those narratives for which opt-in consumer consent had been obtained and a robust personal information scrubbing standard and methodology applied would be subject to disclosure. The proposed policy would supplement the CFPB’s existing Policy Statements establishing and expanding the Consumer Complaint Database.

Click here for the proposed policy statement as published in the Federal Register.

• CFPB is accepting comments on all aspects of the proposals until September 22; please send comments to Luke Martone by August 22.

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