Bureau of Consumer Credit Protection
🛈 The Bureau will be closed Monday, May 26, 2025 in observance of the Memorial Day Holiday.
Welcome to the website of the Bureau of Consumer Credit Protection, an agency within the Department of Professional and Financial Regulation. The Bureau oversees many aspects of the consumer finance industry, including non-bank mortgage lenders, debt collectors, loan brokers, retail creditors, money transmitters, consumer reporting agencies, student loan servicers, and non-bank ATMs. We appreciate your visit to our homepage and look forward to assisting you.
If you are trying to check the status of a license applied for or issued through the NMLS, please please click the button below (trusted partner link) to visit NMLS Consumer Access.
Press Releases
- 1/15/2025: Maine Superintendent of Consumer Credit Protection Announces $80 Million Enforcement Action Against Block, Inc., Cash App for BSA/AML Violations
- 12/23/2024: Maine Bureau of Consumer Credit Protection Announces Consent Agreement and Order with Kraken
- 6/26/2024: Maine Bureau of Consumer Credit Protection Settles with Abra to Return Cryptocurrency Assets
- 3/22/2024: Maine Bureau of Consumer Credit Protection Orders Sigue Corp. to Cease Money Transmission Activities
- 10/17/2023: State Regulators Settle with ACI Payments, Inc. for Unauthorized Transactions from Mr. Cooper Customer Accounts
Notices and Updates
- 5/21/2025: Bureau Publishes Revised Money Transmitter Rule for Comment
- 5/15/2025: Bureau Publishes Money Transmission Modernization Act Advisory Ruling
- 4/2/2025: Bureau Adopts Revised Supervised Lender Rule
- 3/18/2025: Bureau Issues Revised Interpretive Letter Regarding "Conventional Mortgage Rate" Definition
- 3/13/2025: Bureau Adopts Revised Money Transmitter Rule
Recent Enforcement Actions
- 1/16/2025: Settlement Agreement and Consent Order: Block, Inc.
- 12/23/2024: Payward Ventures, Inc. et. al. - Consent Agreement and Order
- 10/15/2024: Fortress Trust LLC - Consent and Cease and Desist Order
- 11/27/2023: Hometown Lenders, Inc. - Order to Cease and Desist
- 5/28/2020: Fuller Chevrolet-GMC Inc. Assurance of Discontinuance