1) The document discusses the redesign of financial disclosure forms by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to better inform consumers and protect them from risky and complex financial products.
2) It notes that previous mortgage and loan disclosure forms did not adequately disclose the risks of products like subprime mortgages.
3) The CFPB used an open design process, soliciting input from stakeholders at every stage, to create new simpler Loan Estimate and Closing Disclosure forms that build consumer understanding and a more transparent mortgage market.
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Plenary 900 munz
1. OCTOBER 2013
The next face of finance
DAN MUNZ
CONSUMER FINANCIAL PROTECTION BUREAU
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4. It is impossible to buy a toaster
that has a one-in-鍖ve chance of
bursting into 鍖ames and burning
down your house. But it is
possible to refinance an existing
home with a mortgage that has the
same one-in-five chance of putting
the family out on the streetand
the mortgage wont even carry a
disclosure of that fact to the
homeowner.
Unsafe at Any Rate
Summer 2007
51. Why wasn't I consulted is the
fundamental question of the web.
Humans have a fundamental need to be
consulted, engaged, to exercise their
knowledge (and thus power), and no other
medium that came before has been able to
tap into that as effectively.
PAUL FORD, JANUARY 2011
54. just getting over recent changes
+
money on the line
+
the Internet
=
WWIC
65. I need you to go on there and
comment about what you like and
dislike about this form.
If you guys dont comment, then
when it does get released, you
have no right to complain.
KEN PERRY, JUNE 2011
66. Lesson 2:
A truly open process
creates the space
to design successfully.