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Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s
Regulation B
Equal Credit Opportunity

12 CFR 1002; as amended effective September 25, 2023
Subpart A—General
  • Section
  • Authority, scope, and purpose
  • Definitions
  • Limited exceptions for certain classes of transactions
  • General rules
  • Rules concerning requests for information
  • Rules concerning evaluation of applications
  • Rules concerning extensions of credit
  • Special purpose credit programs
  • Notifications
  • Furnishing of credit information
  • Relation to state law
  • Record retention
  • Information for monitoring purposes
  • Rules on providing appraisals and other valuations
  • Incentives for self-testing and self-correction
  • Enforcement, penalties, and liabilities
Subpart B—Small Business Lending Data Collection
  • Section
  • Authority, purpose, and scope
  • Definitions
  • Covered applications
  • Covered credit transactions and excluded transactions
  • Covered financial institutions and exempt institutions
  • Business and small business
  • Compilation of reportable data
  • Firewall
  • Reporting of data to the Bureau
  • Publication of data and other disclosures
  • Recordkeeping
  • Enforcement
  • Severability
  • Effective date, compliance date, and special transitional rules
AUTHORITY: 12 U.S.C. 5512, 5581; 15 U.S.C. 1691b. Subpart B is also issued under 15 U.S.C. 1691c–2.

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The interpretations (also referred to as the official staff commentary) begin at 6-5154.
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