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Bureau Slaps Citibank With $735 Million Enforcement Action

July 27, 2015
The CFPB last week ordered Citibank and its subsidiaries to provide an estimated $700 million in relief to eligible consumers harmed by allegedly illegal practices related to credit card add-on products and services. Citibank and its subsidiaries also will pay $35 million in civil money penalties to the CFPB. Roughly 7 million consumer accounts were affected by Citibank’s deceptive marketing, billing, and administration of debt protection and credit monitoring add-on products, said the bureau. A Citibank subsidiary also deceptively charged expedited payment fees to nearly 1.8 million consumer accounts during collection calls. More specifically, the bureau’s allegations of deceptive marketing include charges that Citi misrepresented the cost and fees for coverage, misrepresented the benefits of some products, used illegal practices ...
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