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A federal district court recently granted the unopposed motion of the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) to terminate their October 2021 consent order with Trustmark National Bank...more
On April 18, the FDIC announced that it amended its 2023 consent order against an insured state nonmember bank, as well as issued a new order for restitution and order to pay, concluding the bank recklessly engaged in unsafe...more
On March 20, the Fed announced two enforcement actions against banks last month. On February 24, the Fed issued a civil money penalty order against a state member bank in Hawaii. That bank agreed to pay a $15,500 penalty for...more
On January 31, the FDIC released a list of 18 administrative enforcement actions taken against banks and individuals in December 2024. The public orders comprised 14 stipulated orders and written agreements (and one...more
Recently, the FDIC ordered two affiliated state nonmember banks to each pay a $1,000,000 civil monetary penalty (orders here and here). These penalties resolve claims of unfair practices related to their rewards programs and...more
On September 11, 2024, the CFPB issued an administrative consent order against the Bank, alleging multiple violations of the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA), the Consumer Financial Protection Act (CFPA), and the Furnisher...more
Recently, the FDIC released a list of administrative enforcement actions taken against banks and individuals in May 2024. During that month, the FDIC made public 15 orders consisting of: a combined personal consent order and...more
On May 17, 2024, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) announced a settlement with an Arkansas bank and nine of its employees, resolving allegations that the bank and the employees violated Section 5 of the...more
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) recently settled charges against J.P. Morgan Securities LLC (JPMS) for impeding hundreds of advisory clients and brokerage customers from reporting potential securities law...more
In this month's article, we share some of our top "bites" for the prior month covered during the December 2023 webinar....more
On December 29, the FDIC released a list of administrative enforcement actions taken against banks and individuals in November. The FDIC made 12 orders public including, “five consent orders, three prohibition orders, two...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 July 11, 2023, the CFPB announced two consent orders against a large national bank, settling allegations that the bank illegally charged consumers multiple non-sufficient fund fees for the same transaction, withheld cash...more
On March 15, the OCC announced a $17 million civil money penalty and prohibition order against a former senior executive who served as head of a national bank’s community banking division for her role in the bank’s incentive...more
On December 30, the FDIC released a list of orders of administrative enforcement actions taken against banks and individuals in November. The FDIC made public nine orders consisting of “two consent orders; two orders...more
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) recently imposed its largest fine ever for consumer banking law violations. The agency’s action is a good reminder for other banks to review their own practices and may spawn...more
On November 29, the OCC released a revised Policies and Procedures Manual relating to the assessment of civil money penalties (“CMP Matrix”), which will be effective as of January 1, 2023. The CMP Matrix is a reference guide...more
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) has revised its civil money penalty (CMP) manual and will begin using the revised manual on January 1, 2023. The manual establishes general policies and procedures for the...more
The Department of Justice (DOJ) announced on September 12, the first-ever False Claims Act (FCA) settlement with a Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) lender. Prosperity Bank, a Texas-based regional bank, agreed to pay...more
On July 28, 2022, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) issued a Consent Order against a large bank (the Bank), claiming that the Bank created sales pressure on its employees that encouraged employees to...more
New High Court case considers nature and scope of the Quincecare duty - In June, the Court of Appeal expanded the scope of a bank’s duty of care to protect its customers from fraud to encompass instructions by those other...more
Archegos Executives Charged With Conspiring To Defraud Banks Out of Billions - On Wednesday, April 27, 2022, the US Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York unsealed an indictment charging Sung Kook “Bill”...more
On March 17, the OCC and FinCEN issued civil monetary penalties against a federal savings bank for “willfully” failing to meet minimum compliance program requirements and shoddy suspicious transaction reporting. The consent...more
On December 16, 2021, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (“OCC”) and the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (“FinCEN”) issued civil monetary penalties against a Texas community bank for violations of the Bank...more
The hottest topic in banking this month is overdraft fees. On December 1, 2021, Capital One bank announced it would be eliminating all overdraft fees for consumer accounts, ending a practice that once netted the bank over...more