On July 9, 2024, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) announced that it filed a proposed stipulated final judgment and order in its suit against a national bank accused of allegedly opening unauthorized accounts...more
Similar to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s Supervisory Highlights, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)’s Consumer Compliance Supervisory Highlights should be on your reading list. While the FDIC has...more
The CFPB entered into a Consent Order with U.S. Bank National Association over allegations that U.S. Bank pressured and incentivized its employees to open unauthorized accounts, in violation of the Consumer Financial...more
HIGHLIGHTS: The bank must pay a $37.5 million civil penalty to the CFPB. The bank neither admitted nor denied the allegations but must forfeit unlawfully charged fees and costs to consumers and develop a remediation plan for...more
The Trump era of the last four years is regarded in the popular press as one of federal deregulation, and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which will commemorate the eleventh anniversary of its founding later this...more
On June 22, 2016, the CFPB will host a webinar on recent updates to its eRegulations tool. Acting Deputy Director David Silberman will be a webinar speaker. eRegulations is a tool available on the CFPB’s website that can be...more
The CFPB announced that it has added Regulations C, X, and DD to its eRegulations platform and has updated Regulation Z on the platform so that it includes all of the amendments made to the regulation through March 2016....more
In This Issue: - The 1996 Morgan Stanley Letter: Re-imagined at the Age of 18 - Structured CDs – Goodbye Regulation DD, Hello Regulation DD - FCA Issues Fine in Relation to Structured Product Transaction ...more
The FRB repealed its several regulations including Regulation DD, Truth in Savings and, Regulation P, Privacy of Consumer Financial Information. The Dodd-Frank Act granted rulemaking authority for a number of consumer...more
The FRB issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to repeal its regulation implementing the Truth in Savings Act, Regulation DD, and the regulation implementing the provisions of the Gramm-Leach Bliley Act protecting the privacy...more
In an opinion issued late last week, the California Supreme Court interpreted the Unfair Competition Law, Cal. Bus. & Prof. Code § 17200 et seq. (the “UCL”), to allow a UCL unlawfulness claim based on a “borrowed” federal...more