By Adrianne Appel2024-10-15T19:28:00
TSB Bank has been fined 10.9 million pounds (U.S. $14,2 million) for treating retail customers poorly while they were in arrears on mortgages, credit cards, loans and overdraft accounts, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) said.
TSB also failed to have adequate controls in place to ensure customers facing financial hardship were treated fairly, the FCA said.
TSB’s repayment plans between June 2014 and March 2020, for customers under water on its loans and other borrowing programs were unrealistic and risked being unaffordable. The proposed fees for these customers, about 232,849 people, were inappropriate, the FCA said.
2024-10-02T18:22:00Z By Aaron Nicodemus
The U.K.’s Financial Conduct Authority fined Starling Bank, Britain’s first digital bank, nearly 29 million pounds (U.S. $38.5 million) for repeated failures related to onboarding high-risk customers.
2024-08-20T18:56:00Z By Adrianne Appel
PricewaterhouseCoopers agreed to pay 15 million pounds (U.S. $19.5 million) for failing to report suspicions of fraud taking place at investment firm London Capital & Finance before it collapsed, the Financial Conduct Authority announced.
2024-05-23T15:55:00Z By Aaron Nicodemus
The U.K. Financial Conduct Authority fined HSBC nearly £6.3 million (U.S. $8 million) for failing to properly consider the financial position of customers who missed payments.
2025-08-25T20:49:00Z By Adrianne Appel
JPMorgan Chase has agreed to pay $330 million to settle allegations about its role in the massive, decades-long theft of Malaysian’s 1MDB state investment fund, the bank says. An estimated $4.5 billion was robbed from the 1MDB fund, from 2009-2014, in a scheme led by Malaysian financier, Jho Low, former ...
2025-08-25T18:24:00Z By Adrianne Appel
Crypto platform Anchorage Digital has been freed of a consent order originally issued by the Treasury Department for anti-money laundering failures.
2025-08-25T15:51:00Z By Adrianne Appel
The co-founders of a California financial tech and sustainability services company defrauded investors and lenders of $248 million, according to the Department of Justice.
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