Docket of the Office of Administrative Adjudication
The OAA docket includes all public documents filed in administrative proceedings before the Office of Administrative Adjudication. The docket does not include documents containing confidential information covered under a protective order or other order authorizing confidential treatment.
Types of proceedings in the OAA docket:
Administrative adjudication
The Bureau initiates an administrative adjudication proceeding by filing a notice of charges. Administrative adjudications are conducted by an administrative law judge, who holds formal hearings and issues a recommended decision.
Stipulation and consent order
Stipulations and consent orders consist of proceedings where the parties agree to settlement and file a stipulation and a consent order before the filing of a notice of charges.
Not all enforcement actions initiated by the Bureau are filed with the Office of Administrative Adjudication. The Enforcement docket includes proceedings not filed with the Office of Administrative Adjudication, such as federal district court cases.
On May 7, 2024, the Bureau issued an order against Chime Financial, Inc. (Chime), a financial-technology company that designed and services consumer banking accounts for two separate FDIC-insured “partner banks.”
On April 17, 2024, the Bureau issued an order against BloomTech, Inc., a for-profit vocational school that is also known as the Bloom Institute of Technology and was formerly known as the Lambda School, and Austen Allred, the company’s founder and CEO.
On December 19, 2023, the Bureau issued an order against U.S. Bank in connection with its administration of prepaid debit cards that held unemployment insurance benefits.
On December 15, 2023, the Bureau issued an order against Commonwealth Financial Systems, Inc. (Commonwealth), a Pennsylvania-based third-party debt collection company that collects past-due medical debts and furnishes information about consumers to consumer reporting agencies (CRAs).
On November 28, 2023, the Bureau issued an order against Bank of America, N.A., which is a national bank headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina with branches and ATMs located in 38 states and the District of Columbia.
On November 20, 2023, the Bureau issued an order against Toyota Motor Credit Corporation (“Toyota Credit”), which is the United States-based auto-financing arm of Toyota Motor Corporation and one of the largest indirect auto lenders in the country.
On November 15, 2023, the Bureau issued an order against Enova International, Inc., a publicly-traded online small-dollar lender, headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, that markets, provides, and services loans under the brand names CashNetUSA (CNU) and NetCredit.
On October 17, 2023, the Bureau issued an order against Chime, Inc. doing business as Sendwave, a nonbank remittance transfer provider headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.
On October 12, 2023, the Bureau issued an order against TransUnion, parent company of one of the three nationwide consumer reporting agencies, and two of its subsidiaries, Trans Union LLC, and TransUnion Interactive, Inc., which are headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.
On September 11, 2023, the Bureau issued an order against Tempoe, LLC, a nonbank consumer finance company, with offices in Cincinnati, Ohio and Manchester, New Hampshire.
On August 17, 2023, the Bureau issued an order against Realty Connect USA Long Island, Inc. (Realty Connect), a real estate brokerage firm based in Suffolk County, New York.
On July 11, 2023, the Bureau issued an order against Bank of America, N.A., which is a depository institution based in Charlotte, North Carolina to address the Bureau’s findings regarding the bank’s opening unauthorized consumer financial accounts and its misleading statements regarding certain credit cards rewards.
On July 11, 2023, the Bureau issued an order against Bank of America, N.A., which is a national bank headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina with branches and ATMs located in 38 states and the District of Columbia.
On June 27, 2023, the Bureau issued an order against ACI Worldwide Corp. and ACI Payments Inc. (collectively, ACI), a nationwide payment processor headquartered in Elkhorn, Nebraska.
On August 17, 2023, the Bureau issued an order against Freedom Mortgage Corporation (Freedom), a residential mortgage loan originator and servicer headquartered in Boca Raton, Florida.
On December 22, 2022, the Bureau issued an order against Servicio UniTeller, Inc. (UniTeller), a nonbank remittance transfer provider headquartered in Rochelle Park, New Jersey.
The Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection (Bureau) announced a settlement with Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. in a coordinated action with the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC).
On May 31, 2023, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (Bureau) issued an order against OneMain Financial Holdings, LLC; OneMain Financial Group, LLC; OneMain Financial (HI), Inc.; OneMain Financial, Inc.; OneMain Financial of Minnesota, Inc. and (collectively referred to as OneMain). OneMain is an Indiana-based personal loan installment lender with more than 1,400 branches across 44 states.