Tag: Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

January 17, 2024

A rule proposed Wednesday by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau could reduce — to between $3 and $14 — the overdraft fees charged by banks with more than $10 billion in assets. Under the proposed rule, banks would classify overdraft […]

October 3, 2023

On September 19, 2023, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) issued a Consumer Protection Circular, “Adverse Action Notification Requirements and the Proper Use of the CFPB’s Sample Forms Provided in Regulation B” (Guidance), concerning lenders’ obligations when using artificial intelligence […]

July 6, 2023

On May 9, Warren and six other senators sent the CEOs of the 10 largest U.S. credit card issuers a letter demanding details about their companies’ late fee practices and citing a CFPB effort to curtail those fees. The issuers […]

May 23, 2023

Citizens Bank will pay $9 million to settle Consumer Financial Protection Bureau allegations that the Providence, Rhode Island-based lender improperly managed customers’ credit card disputes and fraud claims, the agency said Tuesday. The penalty stems from a January 2020 lawsuit […]

February 8, 2023

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) recently issued a notice of proposed rulemaking to amend Regulation Z (the Proposal), which implements the Truth in Lending Act (TILA), to better ensure that late fees charged on credit card accounts are “reasonable […]

August 10, 2022

The banking giant says the regulator is examining its “credit card account management practices, including with respect to the application of refunds, crediting of nonconforming payments, billing error resolution, advertisements, and reporting to credit bureaus”. Goldman Sachs says it is […]

July 28, 2022

A U.S. regulator on Thursday fined U.S. Bancorp $37.5 million for mistreating customers by opening sham accounts without their permission, conduct that also occurred at larger rival Wells Fargo & Co. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau said U.S. Bancorp, the […]

July 21, 2022

“Bank of America automatically and unlawfully froze people’s accounts with a faulty fraud detection program, and then gave them little recourse when there was, in fact, no fraud,” the CFPB says. “Taxpayers relied on banks to distribute needed funds to […]

March 29, 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic offered some relief when it came to the amount consumers forked over in credit card late fees, which account for more than half of the credit card market’s consumer fees, the CFPB report said. Prior to the […]

January 6, 2022

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau slammed the nation’s credit reporting bureaus over their handling of complaints in a report that could serve as a precursor to stricter oversight of the industry. The CFPB said that Equifax, Experian and TransUnion often […]

December 8, 2021

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) needs to protect consumers from big technology companies eager to make inroads in the payments processing business, according to comments filed this week with the agency by two bank industry trade groups. The American […]

January 20, 2021

On Monday, just two days before his inauguration, Biden announced the appointment of Rohit Chopra to direct the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). Biden also nodded to his intent to nominate Gary Gensler as the next chair of the Securities […]

January 7, 2019

USAA Federal Savings Bank has been ordered to pay $12 million in restitution to customers and got hit with a $3.5 million fine for its unusual payment behaviour. In its consent order, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) says it […]