Law and legal issues

The settlement detailed the missteps PayPal took in the lead-up to the attack and highlighted common risks — both on compliance and security — banks face.

The case against Yellowstone Capital, which state officials alleged deceived small-business borrowers, has brought attention to the industry.

The ruling lets state Attorney General Letitia James continue arguing Citi should have reimbursed customers for wire fraud, though some claims were dismissed.

The lawsuit alleges mismanagement and fiduciary breaches caused SVB's 2023 collapse, costing the Deposit Insurance Fund $23 billion.

The Biden administration is asking the Supreme Court to overturn a lower court injunction against the Corporate Transparency Act, which requires businesses to disclose their beneficial owners. The outcome has significant implications for banks' AML compliance burdens.

The Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Thompson v. United States, which could decide whether the federal government can prosecute "misleading" in addition to "false" statements to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.

Debt collection trade group ACA International and Specialized Collections Systems, a Houston-based debt collector, filed a lawsuit against the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau alleging its medical debt rule is outside its authority.

Two trade groups filed a lawsuit against the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau claiming it exceeded its authority and ignored the legislative history on medical debts.

A customer claims the Massachusetts bank fined her numerous times over a single botched purchase. The bank paid her back — but her class action lawsuit isn't going away.

The manufactured home loan lender, a unit of Berkshire Hathaway subsidiary Clayton Homes, was accused of ignoring red flags that sent many borrowers into bankruptcy, default and ultimately out of their homes.

An appeals court ruled that online lender CashCall had waived its right to a jury trial and that its other challenges "lack merit," in a lawsuit filed by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau in 2013.

After the U.S. government alleged that the cash-advance app doesn't make the cost of "tipping" clear to customers, the Los Angeles-based company said it would implement a new business model in early 2025.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has sued some of the largest U.S. corporations and banks before the changeover to the Trump administration later this month.

The watchdog accuses Rocket Homes and The Mitchell Group brokerage of initiating a plan to generate origination business for Rocket Mortgage.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau sued Walmart and payment app Branch Messenger, accusing them of illegally opening 1 million deposit accounts and charging $10 million in fees. Branch said the agency refused to engage in any meaningful way about the matter.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau sued three of the largest U.S. banks for fraud perpetrated on the bank-owned payment network Zelle, alleging shoddy safeguards and millions in consumer losses.

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.'s decision to weigh civil lawsuits against Silicon Valley Bank executives to recover losses to its Deposit Insurance Fund isn't rare in itself, but the bipartisan nature of the move and size of the failed institution suggest a current that isn't changing with the presidential administration.

Bank trade groups filed a motion for a preliminary injunction to stop the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's $5 overdraft fee rule from going into effect late next year.

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. is considering suing former Silicon Valley Bank executives over risk management decisions, imprudent dividends and billions in losses that fueled a banking crisis in 2023.

Banks will feel the fallout from a court's decision to strike down a Nasdaq rule that would have mandated more disclosure about the racial and gender composition of corporate boards.