The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is ordering Regions Bank to pay $50 million into its victims’ relief fund and to refund at least $141 million to customers harmed by its illegal surprise overdraft fees.
The agency found Regions knew about and could have discontinued its surprise overdraft fee practices years earlier but chose to wait while it pursued changes that would generate new fee revenue to make up for ending the illegal fees.
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