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On July 3, the FDIC released its 2025 edition of its Consumer Compliance Supervisory Highlights report. The report described the FDIC’s aggregated findings from approximately 800 consumer compliance examinations conducted in...more
What Happened? On December 12, 2024, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) issued its final “overdraft lending” rule aimed at curbing overdraft fees charged by banks and credit unions with more than $10 billion in...more
CFPB Imposes $5 Cap on Overdraft Fees Charged by Large Banks - The CFPB has adopted a final rule capping overdraft fees at $5 for banks and other depository institutions with more than $10 billion in assets (covered...more
On December 12, several banking associations and individual financial institutions filed a complaint in the U.S. District Court of the Southern District of Mississippi against the CFPB, challenging its final rule amending...more
In an unusual move, the CFPB is coming to the defense of a bank being accused of failing to provide repayment disclosures to a borrower....more
On March 28, the FDIC released the spring edition of its consumer compliance supervisory highlights. The FDIC supervises approximately 3,000 state-chartered banks and thrifts that are not members of the Federal Reserve...more
The term “junk fee” is not defined under federal law, but the CFPB has focused on factors such as whether the fee would be unexpected to or take advantage of a reasonable consumer, the amount of the fee compared to the cost...more
As person-to-person payments become mainstream, the proposal would proactively outlaw fees that financial institutions could assess on instantaneously declined transactions. On January 24, 2024, the Consumer Financial...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 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
The CFPB recently issued a final rule increasing the asset exemption threshold under the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA) and a final rule increasing the asset exemption threshold for the Truth in Lending Act (TILA)...more
On October 27, 2020, the OCC released its final True Lender Rule. As discussed earlier on this blog, the OCC’s rule is designed to clarify the “true lender” doctrine, a legal test utilized by courts and regulators to...more
On March 9, 2020, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) filed a lawsuit against a national bank in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois alleging that the bank opened unauthorized accounts...more
The CFPB has announced annual adjustments to two asset-size exemption thresholds. First, the CFPB has made no change to the asset-size exemption threshold under HMDA/Regulation C which is currently set at $44 million. ...more
Overview This Client Alert continues Pepper’s observations on the Volcker Rule. Critical attention should be paid to the Volcker Rule’s anti-evasion provision, a powerful tool granted by Congress to the regulatory agencies to...more
On November 13, 2014, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (“CFPB”) issued a proposed rule to regulate prepaid accounts (the “Proposed Rule”). The Proposed Rule follows the CFPB’s May 2012 advance notice of proposed...more
Armed with some background on what the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (“CFPB”) is and does (from my 11-11-14 blog entry), let’s dive directly into the issue of rules. For starters, let’s look into the CFPB’s new rules...more
In This Issue: - RECENT CASES ..Preemption ..CFPB Involvement in Litigation ..CFTC Regulation of Retail Commodity Transactions ..Durbin Amendment ..Appraiser Disclosure Requirements Under...more
In notices published in yesterday’s Federal Register, the CFPB adjusted the thresholds of the asset-size exemptions for collecting HMDA data and establishing an escrow account for certain mortgage loans under TILA. ...more