March 04, 2025
A Mississippi federal judge said Tuesday that he will allow two outside nonprofits to step into litigation over the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's $5 overdraft fee rule and defend the Biden-era regulation against a banking industry-backed legal challenge.
January 09, 2025
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the Bank Policy Institute and several other banking industry groups have added their voices in opposition to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's new $5 overdraft fee rule through amici curiae briefs filed in Mississippi federal court.
December 19, 2024
Bank groups have asked a Mississippi federal judge to put an interim hold on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's new rule establishing a $5 overdraft fee cap at larger banks and credit unions, arguing that the agency is trying to unwind more than a half-century of regulatory interpretation at a great potential cost to the industry.
December 12, 2024
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau said Thursday that it has adopted a general $5 fee cap for overdraft programs at larger banks and credit unions, finalizing it as part of a new rule that banking industry groups have rapidly mobilized to block with a lawsuit.