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ARTICLE · 15 MAY 2025

CFPB Rescinds 67 Guidance Documents

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The CFPB announced on May 9, 2025, that nearly 70 guidance documents will be withdrawn...

United StatesFinance and Banking
Eamonn Moran
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The CFPB announced on May 9, 2025, that nearly 70 guidance documents will be withdrawn after an agencywide review of documents that violate the Administrative Procedure Act (APA).

As previously reported by Holland & Knight, CFPB Acting Director Russell Vought announced in April 2025 his intentions to review all guidance documents issued by the agency to ensure they do not exceed the authority granted to the CFPB by the APA. Vought intended to identify materials that impose "rights or obligations through guidance."

In a Federal Register notice posted on May 9, 2025, Vought identified the 67 guidance documents that are to be rescinded, spanning more than 14 years and including documents that expanded the CFPB's public consumer complaint database. Also included in the withdrawal are documents allowing for the public reporting of credit card and other complaints, as well as narratives about complaints, on the CFPB's public database. The amount of available

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