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Bank Obscured Fees, Adopted Loose Definition of Consent to Preserve Overdraft Revenue.
Navient, Formerly Part of Sallie Mae, Illegally Cheated Borrowers Out of Repayment Rights Through Shortcuts and Deception.
Today the Bureau is filing a lawsuit against Navient (formerly part of Sallie Mae), which is the nation's largest servicer of both federal and private...
By
Richard Cordray
Bureau Orders Medical Debt Collection Law Firms and their President to Refund $577,135 to Consumers.
Credit Reporting Companies Misstated the Cost and Usefulness of the Credit Scores and Products They Sold, Lured Consumers into Costly Recurring Payments.
Bureau Orders Lender to Pay $200,000 Civil Penalty.
Bureau Alleges Four Virginia Pawnbrokers Disclosed Misleading Annual Percentage Rates.
Bureau Orders Financial Services Company to Pay $255,000 to Consumers.
Three Companies Cited For Falsely Claiming Consumers Could Not Lose Their Homes.
Unchecked Incentives Can Produce Unauthorized Account Openings, Deceptive Sales Tactics, and Other Illegal Practices.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) filed a complaint in federal district court against Access Funding, LLC for an illegal scheme in which victims of lead-paint poisoning and others were deceived into signing away future settlement payments in exchange for a significantly lower lump-sum payout.
Bureau Alleges Virginia Pawnbroker Disclosed Misleadingly Low Annual Percentage Rate.
Alleges Network of Sham Collections Companies Harass, Threaten, and Deceive Millions of Consumers.
CFPB Finds Qualified Students Were Blocked From Affordable Loan Repayment Plans; Updates Student Loan Servicing Exam Procedures.
Credit Union Used False Threats to Collect Debts and Placed Unfair Restrictions on Account Access.
Online Lender Did Not Help Consumers Build Credit or Access Cheaper Loans, As It Claimed.
Lender Also Illegally Exposed Borrowers’ Debt Information to Employers, Friends, and Family.
Bureau Alleges Lenders Did Not List Required Annual Percentage Rate in Online Loan Advertisements.
On September 8, 2016, the Consumer Bureau, together with our partners at the Los Angeles City Attorney's office and the Office of the Comptroller of the...
By
Richard Cordray
CFPB Orders Full Relief and Refunds for All Private Loans Made by the School.
Today the Bureau is joining our partners at the Los Angeles City Attorney's office and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency in taking an...
By
Richard Cordray
Bank Incentives to Boost Sales Figures Spurred Employees to Secretly Open Deposit and Credit Card Accounts.
Deceptive Marketing and Illegal Billing of Add-On Products Harmed Hundreds of Thousands of Consumers.
Wells Fargo to Pay $3.6 Million Penalty to the Bureau.
Bank Deceptively Marketed Its Overdraft Service to Consumers, Violated “Opt-in” Rule.