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On July 9, 2024, the CFPB issued a consent order and proposed court order against the Company, the former citing allegedly unlawful repossessions, and the latter citing allegedly unlawful sales practices. The consent order...more
The New York Department of Financial Services (“NYDFS”) has brought action in Federal court against Citibank, N.A., alleging that the bank systemically failed to protect accountholders from rampant online scam activity,...more
On December 7, 2023, Atlantic Union Bank (the “Bank”) entered into a consent order with the Consumer Financial Protections Bureau (CFPB) related to its in-person and telephone overdraft opt-in sales practices during...more
On December 7, 2023, the CFPB issued an order against a regional bank in Richmond, Virginia. The consent order alleges that the bank charged consumers overdraft fees without getting the proper consent and misled its customers...more
On October 17, the CFPB announced an enforcement action against a nonbank international money transfer provider for alleged deceptive practices and illegal consumer waivers. According to the consent order, the company...more
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau announced that it has entered into a Consent Order with Chime Inc., a nonbank fintech company, to settle alleged violations of the Electronic Fund Transfer Act (EFTA), Subpart B of...more
On July 19, 2023, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (“CFPB”) sued Snap Finance LLC, Snap R TO LLC, Snap Second Look LLC, Snap U.S. Holdings LLC, and Snap Finance Holdings LLC (collectively, the Snap Defendants or...more
The CFPB announced this week that it has entered into a consent order with ACI Worldwide Corp. and one of its subsidiaries, ACI Payments, Inc., in connection with more than 1.4 million erroneous electronic fund transfer...more
On June 27, 2023, the CFPB filed an administrative consent order against a payment processor headquartered in Elkhorn, Nebraska. The order alleges that on a single date in 2021, the processor erroneously initiated about 1.4...more
On December 22, 2022, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) announced that it had reached a settlement with an international remittance company to resolve alleged violations of the Electronic Fund Transfer Act...more
On April 21, the CFPB and New York Attorney General’s Office filed a complaint against a remittance provider alleging that the provider (i) repeatedly gave senders inaccurate information about when their remittance transfers...more
On April 21, 2022, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) announced a joint enforcement action with the New York Attorney General (NY AG) against one of the largest international remittance providers in the...more
On December 22, 2020, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) announced that it had secured a consent order against a national student loan servicer based on its failure to comply with a 2015 consent order issued by...more
The Federal Trade Commission recently provided its annual letter to the CFPB concerning its enforcement activities relating to compliance with Regulation Z (Truth in Lending Act), Regulation M (Consumer Leasing Act), and...more
On May 22, 2020, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced that it had obtained a temporary restraining order against a payday lending enterprise for alleged violations of the Federal Trade Commission Act, the...more
This survey summarizes several recent developments affecting bank deposits and payment systems. These include payments-related consent orders and enforcement actions by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (“CFPB”) and...more
The CFPB has issued its annual report on TILA, EFTA, and the CARD Act which covers activity in 2016 and 2017. The report provides brief summaries of the 2016 and 2017 enforcement actions brought by the CFPB and other federal...more
On July 3, 2019, Chairman Jay Clayton of the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) issued a Statement Regarding Offers of Settlement (the “Public Statement”) to announce a significant shift in the SEC’s process of...more
On July 20, 2018, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) and Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) reached a $30 million settlement with a South Dakota bank over allegations that the bank had engaged in...more
The CFPB’s concern with incentives and overdrafts continues and has resulted in a lawsuit filed against a Minnesota based TCF National Bank. In the lawsuit, the CFPB alleges that TCF National Bank violated the UDAAP...more
The CFPB announced that it has entered into a consent order with Military Credit Services, LLC, a company providing revolving credit to military consumers, to settle allegations that the company’s open-end credit agreements...more
On December 16, 2016, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) announced that it entered into a consent order relating to a Seattle-based payday lender and check-cashing company’s allegedly deceptive online...more
Overdraft services practices were the basis for a $10 million fine from the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection (CFPB) in a recent action against a national bank operating primarily in the northeast....more
On June 30, 2016, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (“CFPB”) released the twelfth edition of its Supervisory Highlights report (“Report”), which focused on supervision work completed between January and April 2016. The...more
The Federal Trade Commission has provided its annual report to the CFPB covering the FTC’s enforcement activities in 2015 related to compliance with Regulation Z (Truth in Lending), Regulation M (Consumer Leasing), and...more