Today, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) released its 36-page Summer edition of Supervisory Highlights report which focuses on unfair, deceptive, and abusive acts or practices across many consumers financial products. The latest edition of the Supervisory Highlights report covers findings from CFPB supervisory examinations completed from July 2022 to March 2023. CFPB Director Rohit Chopra stated that “Today’s report furthers our efforts to highlight conduct that violates federal law, including the prohibition on abusive […]
Category: UDAAP
CFPB’s Releases a Special Supervisory Highlights Report All About Junk Fees
Fee practices continue to be in the spotlight and with the release of the special addition of the CFPB’s Supervisory Highlight, it looks like they are about to get even more attention and scrutiny. The Highlights come within a few months of major enforcement actions and other CFPB guidance. Since the fall of 2022, three financial institutions have had the unfortunate experience of being cited and accused of having potentially unfair, deceptive, or abusive policies […]
CFPB SLAMS WELLS FARGO $3.7 BILLION FOR A RANGE OF UDAAP VIOLATIONS
On December 20, 2022, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) ordered Wells Fargo Bank to pay more than $2 billion in redress to consumers and a $1.7 billion civil penalty for legal violations across several of its largest product lines. The bank’s illegal conduct led to billions of dollars in financial harm to its customers and, for thousands of customers, the loss of their vehicles and homes. Consumers were illegally assessed fees and interest charges […]
Day 2 – ABA RCC
Welcome from Orlando and day two of the annual ABA Regulatory Compliance Conference. It was a jammed packed day of listening and learning from boots on the ground peers. My focus today was on a variety of topics; from CRA modernization, Patty Joyner’s take on today’s hybrid work environments, UDAAP, and the evolution of risk framework. It was hard to choose what sessions to attend. There were so many great topics to choose from. However, […]
FDIC ISSUES CMP FOR DECEPTIVE ADVERTISING
On March 10, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) issued a consent order to Magnolia Bank, Magnolia, KY, which included a $425,000 civil monetary penalty for violations of Section 5 of the Federal Trade Commission Act (UDAP). The FDIC found that the bank deceptively advertised “interest rates and fees for residential mortgage loans as the lowest on the market, with a promise of a ‘best rate guarantee,’ comparative shopping for such rates, and lower rates due […]