In the fall of 2017, after more than five years of outreach and research, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) issued a regulation to address harms to consumers caused by payday loans, vehicle-title loans, and certain other loans with similar features. In July 2020, the CFPB issued a new rule that repeals core aspects of the 2017 rule. Payday and title loans are short-term loans that lenders typically offer without assessing borrowers’ ability to repay. Lenders’ failure to underwrite traps many borrowers in expensive cycles of unaffordable debt. Financially distressed consumers are...
Download this ruling (PDF) >> An 11th Circuit Court held that an arbitration clause was unenforceable in a suit charging BB&T with reordering debit card transactions to boost bank overdraft fees.
In August 2010, Wells Fargo was ordered to reimburse its California customers $203 million in debit card overdraft fees triggered solely by transaction reordering between November 2004 and June 2008.