Publications
ADMINISTRATIVE LETTERS
An Administrative Letter is the method by which the Commissioner of Financial Institutions
Formally communicates with entities regulated by the Bureau of Financial Institutions. Administrative Letters are not regulations or law, but are positions that the Bureau of Financial Institutions has taken on issues affecting financial institutions. Administrative Letters are often issued after the Bureau of Financial Institutions identifies or receives a number of questions or concerns about a particular issue, regulation or law. Administrative Letters provide helpful direction, guidance, instructions, interpretations, or general information.
Compliance and guidance
Our goal is to issue regulations that protect consumers and promote fair, transparent, and competitive markets. We’ve created a variety of resources and tools to help financial institutions, service providers, and other entities understand and implement these rules. We also provide guidance materials on ongoing statutory and regulatory compliance.
In addition, we provide resources and tools to help entities within our jurisdiction, including those we supervise, become familiar with our supervision and the examination process. We also share trends we’ve observed in the course of our supervisory activities.
Implementation and guidance
We want financial institutions, service providers, and other entities to have the tools and resources they need to comply with consumer financial protection law.
We’ve developed a variety of materials to help you understand and implement the rules that we issue.
Compliance aids
We have resources to help you understand the rules and their implications as well as links to various other helpful resources, because timely and efficient regulatory implementation of new rules is an important factor in delivering consumer protections to the market.