Policy Analysis || Additional Resources
The banking industry is making forays into the high-cost lending market with “bounce protection” plans, a new form of high-cost credit that boosts fee income for banks. Using aggressive marketing techniques, banks are encouraging their low- and moderate-income customers to use bounce loans as a source of credit. Rather than denying a withdrawal, banks permit customers to overdraw at the ATM or through debit card transactions without informing them about the overdraft or accompanying fees.
Policy Analysis
Policy Briefs, Reports & Press Releases
- Policy Brief: 2021 Banking Agency Predatory Lending and Safe Banking Priorities, December 2020
- Press Release: CFPB Quietly Launches Web Database of Prepaid and Payroll Card Fees and Disclosures but Some Cards with Overdraft Fees are Missing, Oct. 16, 2019
- Press release: Consumer, Civil Rights Advocates to CFPB: Don’t Water Down Overdraft Fee “Opt In” Rule, July 2, 2019
Comments
- Consumer and civil-rights coalition opposition letter to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) re: Overdraft rule review pursuant to the Regulatory Flexibility Act, Docket No. CFPB-2019-0023 (opposing weakening overdraft fee opt-in rule), July 1, 2019; press release
Litigation
- Group Amicus Brief: Roberts v Capital One, N.A., (On Appeal from the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, Case No. 16-cv-4841), Aug. 7, 2017
Additional Resources
- Bounce Protection: How Banks Turn Rubber into Gold by Enticing Consumers to Write Bad Checks – An Examination of Bounce Protection Plans
LinkedIn
Twitter
Facebook
RSS
YouTube