Overdrafts

Under changes announced Tuesday, the San Francisco company will provide a one-day grace period on overdraft fees to its direct deposit customers. It also eliminated overdraft fees on all transactions of under $5.

The financial crisis gave Mary Navarro an unprecedented opportunity to change banking for the better — and she delivered.

House Democrats are lobbying for a bill to reform the way banks charge overdraft fees, but recognizing that Republicans are unlikely to take up the legislation, they are hoping the CFPB can act on its own.

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But the Wayzata, Minn., company is not out of legal hot water, as a judge let stand some charges that it violated a provision in the Dodd-Frank Act that prohibits using deceptive practices to sell consumer products.

Revenue from overdrafts keeps rising, according to new FDIC data, even though the controversial product still has a bull’s-eye on its back. Clearer disclosures and higher consumer confidence are the big reasons.

The startup, which offered credit lines of up to $1,000, hoped to tap into the millennial generation's frustration with overdraft fees.

The San Francisco bank is embroiled in a high-stakes legal battle over the use of arbitration in disputes involving overdraft fees at the same time that adversaries are portraying the scandal-plagued bank as the poster child for why reform is necessary.

Landmark Bancorp in Manhattan, Kan., could lose more than $5 million — more than it earned in the first half of the year — if a recently discovered overdraft situation cannot be resolved.

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