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The CFPB has filed a complaint against Synapse Financial Technologies Inc, alleging that the company engaged in unfair acts and practices in violation of the Section 1036(a)(1)(B) of the CFPA by failing to maintain sufficient...more
On July 18, the CFPB terminated a consent order against a credit union after confirming that the credit union fulfilled “certain obligations” under the original consent order, including paying a $1.5 million civil money...more
On July 21, 2025, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) announced that it had terminated its October 2024 consent order with a Florida-based credit union....more
On July 1, the CFPB terminated two separate consent orders, one involving a federal credit union and the other involving a national mortgage servicer. Both orders stemmed from 2024 enforcement actions and involved alleged...more
On June 16, 2025, the New York Attorney General announced it had entered into a stipulated final judgment to settle its suit against a non-bank money transfer provider over alleged violations of federal and state consumer...more
On June 16, the New York attorney general settled a civil action against a remittance provider in a case dropped by the CFPB earlier this year, which as previously covered by InfoBytes, left the State of New York as the sole...more
On June 18, the CFPB published a proposed rule that would rescind its authority to use money from the Civil Penalty Fund for consumer education and financial literacy initiatives. The proposed changes would amend the CFPB’s...more
There has been much speculation that States will fill the void created by the Trump Administration’s drastic scaling back of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Congress authorized both state attorneys general and state...more
On February 21, a group of 23 state attorneys general (AGs) filed an amicus brief in support of the union representing CFPB workers in the union’s request for a preliminary injunction challenging the recent efforts to halt...more
On December 4, 2024, the CFPB announced that it entered into a proposed stipulated judgment with a student loan servicer and its owner, resolving allegations that the student loan servicer violated the Telemarketing Sales...more
On October 10, 2024, the CFPB announced that it issued a stipulation and consent order against the Company to resolve allegations that the Company violated the CFPA....more
On September 11, the CFPB announced that it had entered into a consent order with a national bank resolving allegations that the bank reported inaccurate information to consumer reporting companies. The bank agreed to pay...more
On September 12, 2024, the CFPB announced that it entered into a stipulated proposed order with a large student loan servicer resolving allegations that the servicer forced borrowers into costly repayment options. Under the...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
After more than seven years of litigation, on September 12, 2024, the CFPB filed the Stipulated Order reflecting its settlement with the Company over alleged violations of the CFPA, FCRA, and FDCPA....more
On August 21, the CFPB entered into a consent order with a nonbank mortgage servicer for mortgage servicing violations and for violating an earlier 2017 CFPB consent order for deficient foreclosure practices. In 2017, the...more
On August 21, 2024, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) announced that it entered into a consent order with a Florida-based mortgage servicer, resolving allegations related to the mortgage servicer’s...more
On June 18, 2024, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB or Bureau) announced that it has entered into consent orders with two companies totaling $16.5 million in civil penalties and consumer redress,...more
On May 18, 2024, the CFPB filed a proposed stipulated final judgment and order with the Company to resolve allegations that the Company violated a 2019 CFPB consent order, HMDA, its implementing Regulation C, and the CFPA....more
The CFPB entered into consent orders with a Home Equity Conversion Mortgage ("HECM," also known as a "reverse mortgage") servicing contractor, its subcontractor, and two of its subcontractor's subsidiaries. The U.S....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 November 15, 2023, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau announced that a nonbank installment lender agreed to settle allegations that it was violating a 2019 consent order. The Company is a publicly traded online...more
On August 22, the CFPB filed a lawsuit against an installment lending company and several of its subsidiaries in South Carolina federal court, alleging that the company engaged in illegal “loan-churning” practices that...more
In May 2019, the CFPB initially sued six associated companies for allegedly violating the Consumer Financial Protection Act's prohibition against deceptive practices and the Telemarketing Sales Rule ("TSR")....more
The CFPB and the OCC announced that they have each entered into a consent order with Bank of America, N.A. for alleged violations arising from the Bank’s representment fee practices (“Fee Consent Orders”). The CFPB also...more