- Chief Compliance Officer and VP of Legal Affairs, Arrow Electronics
By 
Kyle Brasseur2023-11-20T18:53:00
The auto-financing arm of carmaker Toyota agreed to pay $60 million as part of a settlement with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) addressing allegations of illegal lending and credit reporting misconduct.
Toyota Motor Credit Corp. was fined $12 million and must pay nearly $48 million in consumer redress, the CFPB announced in a press release Monday.
Toyota Motor Credit was accused of making it unreasonably difficult for consumers to cancel unwanted add-ons, failing to ensure consumers received refunds for certain add-ons that had become void, failing to provide refunds to consumers who canceled their vehicle service agreements, and not timely correcting false information provided to consumer reporting agencies when consumers returned their leased vehicles, according to the CFPB’s order.
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Ohio-based Fifth Third Bank will pay $20 million in penalties to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau for allegedly opening fake bank accounts and wrongfully repossessing customers’ vehicles.
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.
Atlantic Union Bank agreed to pay $6.2 million as part of a settlement with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau resolving allegations the bank illegally enrolled and misled customers in its checking account overdraft programs.
The U.K. Financial Conduct Authority fined the London branch of Australian-based Macquarie Bank Limited more than 13 million pounds (U.S. $16.3 million) for “serious control failures” that allowed a trader to conceal hundreds of fictitious trades over a 20-month period.
French defense and aviation contractor Thales Group is under investigation by authorities in the U.K. and France for allegedly participating in bribery and corruption.
Hedge fund manager Scott Bessent, named by Donald Trump on Friday as his nominee for Treasury Secretary, has a clear mandate to deregulate the financial markets should he take the helm.
