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CFPB charges Navy Federal Credit Union $95 million for overdraft and junk fees

Finextra

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has charged the US’s largest credit union for illegally charging users overdraft fees.

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CFPB Proposes Interpretive Rule to Ensure Workers Know the Costs and Fees of Paycheck Advance Products

Fintech Finance

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has proposed an interpretive rule explaining that many paycheck advance products, sometimes marketed as “earned wage” products, are consumer loans subject to the Truth in Lending Act. The CFPB also published a report examining employer-sponsored paycheck advance loans.

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Thoughts on 1033 and Open Banking

Innovative Payments Association

On October 31 , the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau published its proposed rule on open banking. The proposed rule would require banks, credit unions, and other financial services companies to share account and transaction data with consumers and authorized third parties. But the CFPB sees it differently.

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The shifting EWA regulatory framework and its impact on bank partnerships and instant payment adoption

Tearsheet

While the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau [CFPB] plans to issue further guidance to provide greater clarity concerning the application of federal law to income-based advance products, several states have taken individual legislative actions targeting EWA in recent months.

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CFPB Finalizes Rule Limiting Credit Card Late Fees

Global Fintech & Digital Assets

The rule targets a statutory loophole that the CFPB asserts large credit card issuers exploited to exact excessive late fees from consumers. No inflation adjustment: The automatic annual inflation adjustment permitted under the implementing statute no longer applies to the $8 late fee threshold.

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White House, CFPB are coming for ‘junk fees’

Payments Dive

The Biden administration and the CFPB want banks and other institutions to stop hitting consumers with extra fees. Come February, offenders face monetary penalties.