Publisher

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

1 published claim from Consumer Financial Protection Bureau appears in the database. The labels below compare each sampled claim with the record. They do not rate the publisher as a whole.

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Sampled claims

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The CFPB said in September 2016 that Wells Fargo employees opened roughly 1.5 million deposit accounts and applied for roughly 565,000 credit card accounts that may not have been authorized by consumers.
Wells Fargo & CompanyRegulator statement, 8 September 20164 records citedFraud

Reports and statements sampled

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Fines Wells Fargo $100 Million for Widespread Illegal Practice of Secretly Opening Unauthorized AccountsRegulator statement, 8 September 2016