The CFPB released its sixth annual report to Congress on college credit card agreements.  The annual report is mandated by the CARD Act.

The CARD Act requires mandatory reporting to the CFPB by card issuers on agreements with institutions of higher learning or certain affiliated organizations (such as alumni associations).  The information in the report is current as of the end of 2016.… Continue Reading

Last December, when the CFPB issued its prototype credit card agreement, the CFPB announced that Pentagon Federal Credit Union had signed up to test the prototype with its customers.   

According to a notice published yesterday by the CFPB in the Federal Register, Pentagon is launching a testing program this fall of a “short-form credit card agreement” which it will be sending to new cardholders in the fourth quarter of 2012 and the first quarter of 2013. … Continue Reading