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By Kyle Brasseur2024-02-26T21:01:00
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) announced its first use of a dormant legal provision allowing it to establish supervisory authority over more nonbank financial companies.
Installment lender World Acceptance Corp. was subject to the agency’s first supervisory designation order announced Friday. The CFPB said in a press release it published the order to “provide transparency about how it assesses risks using consumer complaints and other factors.”
In April 2022, the CFPB warned it was looking to increase its examination authority over nonbanks to “level the playing field” between banks and them. The agency’s director, Rohit Chopra, cited the rapid growth of these companies as reason to ensure proper supervision and prevent harm to consumers.
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2024-05-16T20:03:00Z By Aaron Nicodemus
The Supreme Court rejected a claim that the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s funding mechanism is unconstitutional, removing a legal challenge that had the potential to overturn all the agency’s regulations and enforcement actions.
2024-05-07T17:48:00Z By Jeff Dale
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau ordered Chime Financial to pay $3.25 million in penalties for allegedly delaying consumer refunds past its promised 14-day timeframe.
2024-05-02T16:24:00Z By Kyle Brasseur
Digital wallet company PayPal disclosed it won’t face enforcement regarding a Consumer Financial Protection Bureau probe into its subsidiary Venmo.
2024-07-02T20:35:00Z By Adrianne Appel
Three former executives of Chicago-based Outcome Health, a healthcare technology company, were sentenced for misleading an auditor, clients, lenders, and investors about a scheme to sell $45 million in overbilled advertisements.
2024-07-02T14:42:00Z By Adrianne Appel
A home health company operating in Indiana, Ohio, and Texas agreed to pay nearly $4.5 million to settle allegations it filed false claims by giving sports tickets and other kickbacks to assisted living facilities in exchange for referrals.
2024-07-02T13:50:00Z By Aaron Nicodemus
Crypto-friendly Silvergate Bank will pay a total of $63 million penalties to California and the Federal Reserve Board to settle charges that its anti-money laundering program failed to properly monitor more than $1 trillion worth of customer transactions.
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