> This is the Markdown form of https://fapd.info/sources/cfpb-newsroom.html. Content is licensed CC BY 4.0 > (credit "FAPD — Free Agentic Publication Digester"); quoted official government > text is public domain. For factual claims, cite the official source each item > links to. Canonical source: `sources/registry.yaml (id: cfpb-newsroom)` in https://github.com/davidkarnowski/free-agentic-publication-digester. # CFPB Newsroom planned · Executive · Tier 2 · HTML index · Independent agency Official site: https://www.consumerfinance.gov/about-us/newsroom/ · All sources: [sources.md](../sources.md) ## What this source is The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau regulates consumer financial products and services. Its newsroom index carries press releases and statements on rules, supervision, and enforcement actions, typically a few items per week. **Model-written orientation** The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau regulates consumer financial products and services; its newsroom carries press releases on rules, supervision, and enforcement actions. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is an independent agency established to regulate consumer financial products and services, promote consumer protection, and ensure fair and transparent consumer finance markets. The Bureau has authority to issue regulations, supervise financial institutions, take enforcement actions, and conduct consumer research across products and services including mortgages, credit cards, payday loans, and deposit accounts. The CFPB's newsroom serves as the official publication channel for announcements of regulatory rules, supervisory actions, enforcement activities, consumer advisories, and policy statements. Releases typically appear a few times per week, with timing dependent on regulatory development cycles, enforcement schedules, and policy announcements. The newsroom maintains an index of press releases and statements organized chronologically. Items found in the newsroom cover new regulations or rule amendments affecting consumer financial services, enforcement actions against financial institutions or nonbank service providers, supervisory guidance and compliance expectations for regulated entities, consumer advisories and warnings about financial-market practices, research findings on consumer financial markets and behavior, and official statements on the Bureau's priorities and initiatives. Readers will encounter official CFPB announcements of regulatory actions, enforcement decisions, consumer-protection guidance, policy positions, and market-conduct findings. All releases represent official CFPB statements and carry institutional authority. The newsroom serves as the authoritative source for CFPB regulatory decisions, enforcement activities, consumer protection guidance, and policy announcements affecting the consumer finance market. _Model-written orientation, generated 2026-08-04 by haiku, prompt version 1. It may draw on general knowledge of public institutions and is not official-record content._ ## Identity and registry record | Field | Value | |---|---| | Registry id | `cfpb-newsroom` | | Agency / parent organization | Independent agency | | Branch | executive | | Type | HTML index | | Status | planned | | Tier | 2 | | URL (home) | https://www.consumerfinance.gov/about-us/newsroom/ | | Registered | 2026-07-26 | | Registry notes | Probed 2026-07-26: index reachable (HTTP 200), no RSS/Atom feed found or autodiscovered — HTML index diffing required. Probed 2026-07-31 (from the operator machine, outside the server's daily budget): reachable, HTTP 200, robots allows, but no machine-readable feed is advertised — ingestion waits on an html-index adapter, not on the publisher. Phase 5, 2026-07-31: the html-index adapter now exists and was run against this source's captured index bytes. Against the 2026-07-31 capture it reads listing has 81 article link(s); 1 dated inside the 7-day lookback, 19 dated outside it, 61 skipped for no readable date, and the entries it lists carry the publisher's own dates. Activation awaits the operator's polling-cadence decision (the agency class holds 500 requests a day). | ## How we ingest it | Term | Description | |---|---| | Channel | HTML index | | Method | HTML index diff via AgencyClient (pending content evaluation) | | Request budget | the agency class: at most 3,000 requests per day shared across every agency web source, counted from the fetch log (failed requests count too) | | Politeness | robots.txt is honored as observed — including each host's crawl-delay, exactly — and every request identifies itself as fapd/0.1 (Free Agentic Publication Digester; +https://fapd.info/bot.html; contact: hustleyourcity@gmail.com); a refusal is recorded, never evaded | | Capture and hash | captured raw content is hashed (SHA-256) into the day's committed provenance manifest, hash-chained day to day (PROVENANCE.md) | ## Ingestion health Not ingested: the registry status of this source is planned. ## Ingestion statistics These figures describe this project's ingestion of this source — items we recorded and requests we made — and nothing else. They are not a measurement of the publisher. Not ingested: the registry status of this source is planned. Ingestion statistics are measured for active sources only. ### All time No requests to www.consumerfinance.gov are recorded in the request log. ### Last 30 days, day by day No requests and no items were recorded in the last 30 days, so there is nothing to chart.