CFPB · Consumer Financial Protection Circular FR Doc. 2024-30988 · Published

CFPB Circular 2024-07: Design, Marketing, and Administration of Credit Card Rewards Programs

The CFPB states that credit card issuers and their service providers may violate the prohibition on unfair, deceptive, or abusive acts or practices by devaluing earned rewards, revoking rewards based on buried or vague conditions, or deducting points without delivering the reward. The circular is a general policy statement that imposes no legal requirements on external parties and concerns…

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Applies to: Covered persons and service providers operating credit card rewards programs; no residential mortgage loans are affected.

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What to do

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What to review: No change in this record is mandatory, so nothing is required of lenders: the circular is informational guidance on credit card rewards programs and states that no residential mortgage loans are affected, so a lender need only check whether it operates such a rewards program.

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