The second-largest US financial institution by complete property says it’s getting ready for important losses as a result of ongoing regulatory points.
In a brand new submitting with the U.S. Securities and Trade Fee (SEC), Financial institution of America says it faces a “moderately doable and estimable” lack of as much as $800 billion as a result of investigations from the Client Monetary Safety Bureau (CFPB) and different federal regulators.
“The Company has been responding to an inquiry from the Client Monetary Safety Bureau (CFPB) relating to the Company’s processing of digital funds of funds by the Zelle community.
The CFPB employees has initiated discussions with the Company to pursue a decision of the inquiry or file an enforcement motion. The Company is evaluating subsequent steps, together with litigation.”
Financial institution of America additionally says it’s partaking with a number of unnamed federal regulators over its anti-money laundering and sanctions compliance packages and a decision of the discussions may end in “a number of public orders by the regulators.”
Investigators are reportedly probing BofA, together with JPMorgan Chase and Wells Fargo to find out whether or not the banks are correctly reimbursing victims of fraud on the Zelle funds community and whether or not the banks are successfully eliminating scammer’s accounts.
Zelle has additionally attracted the eye of US lawmakers.
The Senate Everlasting Subcommittee on Investigations mentioned in July that Financial institution of America, Wells Fargo and JPMorgan Chase had collectively declined to reimburse $880 million in disputed transactions on Zelle between 2021 and 2023.
The subcommittee discovered that the three trillion-dollar banks solely reimbursed victims 38% of the time for reported Zelle scams in 2023. In 2019, the three reportedly reimbursed victims of Zelle scams 62% of the time.
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