Enforcement

An internal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau memo says the agency will shift enforcement and supervisory work to the states and cease oversight of all nonbanks and Big Tech firms.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau had accused the Dallas bank of "deliberately disconnecting 24 million customer service calls" among other "unfair" acts. But the motion to dismiss allows the CFPB to refile the case again.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has chosen to prosecute only a handful of cases as the Trump administration drops other investigations, claiming enforcement is not mandated by the Dodd-Frank Act.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau said American Honda Finance Corp. inaccurately reported 300,000 borrowers as delinquent who had paused loan payments during the pandemic.

Equifax agreed to resolve allegations that it failed to conduct proper investigations of consumer disputes, ignored evidence and allowed previously deleted inaccuracies to be reinstated on credit reports. The credit reporting bureau also shared inaccurate credit scores and data about consumers with lenders.

Banking regulators hit companies with penalties for poor interest-rate risk, third-party management, anti-money-laundering controls and consumer protection, among other violations.

A new question field on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's consumer complaint form is tied to an advisory opinion on customer service related to customers' requests for information, industry experts say.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is giving the funds to more than 4.3 million consumers harmed by a defunct credit-repair conglomerate, the largest-ever distribution from the bureau's victim-relief fund.

Industry Bancshares has been bogged down for years with unrealized losses. The Federal Reserve issued a cease-and-desist order against the firm, following similar actions by other agencies.

TD Bank's guilty plea to extensive money-laundering charges last week did not include any criminal charges against individual bank executives. That absence has critics fuming, but experts say bringing charges against individuals isn't so easy.