12/29/2024
In July, a customer submitted a Reg E dispute for debit card transactions which happened in March, April, and May. The first statement was in April. The customer still has his card. The dispute team processed the claim, eventually finalizing it by crediting the customer for the first statement plus 60 and denying the remainder. Earlier this month (September), the customer filed another claim for the same merchants but for an earlier period, December-February. Do you agree that this must be treated as a separate claim because the first one was already made final? If the second claim came in before the first was closed I am assuming we can combine the two since the same merchants are being disputed.
11/24/2024
If we feel that a debit card holder may be heading towards becoming a collections account due to excessive state lottery and state liquor store transactions on a daily basis, can we restrict the card from being used at those MCC transaction types?
11/24/2024
What are your thoughts on allowing customers to give an authorized signer access to their online banking and/or approving them to have a debit card? Would it make a difference if there is a form signed by the customer providing authroization and acceptance of liability for the transactions the signer conducts?
11/10/2024
Can a bank use the customer’s history of access to their online banking, to determine when the customer was aware of a loss such as an unauthorized electronic funds transfer?
11/03/2024
Reg E (12 CFR 1005.17(b)(2)) says we cannot condition the payment of checks and other transaction on the whether the consumer has opted into overdrafts via ATM and one-time debit card transactions. However, it does not clarify whether the opposite is allowed – meaning can you condition ATM and one-time debit card transactions on whether someone has opted into overdrafts via check and other transactions? I can't find any guidance on this question, so any advice is much appreciated.
10/20/2024
We currently have outside counsel providing what I believe is inaccurate guidance. However, I'm struggling to find resources I can use to refute their regulatory interpretations. Specifically, this applies to a consumer's right to stop payment under 1005.10(c). Can you please advise how these requirements apply to:
1. Preauthorized transfers for loan payments (we are the lender/servicer) drawn on both external (we obtain debit authorization) and internal deposit accounts; and
2. Preauthorized bill payments both issued against the bank's/vendor's account and debited directly from the consumer's account. We hold the consumer's deposit account and offer the bill pay service.
09/29/2024
If a customer authorizes someone to use their card and gives them the PIN for a specific transaction, and that someone uses the card for additional transactions that were not authorized by the customer, is their any negligence by the customer for giving the card and PIN for the first authorized transaction? What are the requirements according to Reg E ?
08/25/2024
We have a customer that lost their debit card but didn't notify us until day five. Under Visa's zero liability policy, would this be considered "gross negligence"? The charges do not all add up to $500.00, so are we required to give the customer any credit at all?
08/25/2024
Scenario: A bank employee inadvertently makes an error while processing a payment authorized by phone by the customer, for example, customer authorized his/her personal loan monthly payment of $100 but the employee processes a debit for $101, or $96.
Could this be considered an unauthorized electronic fund based on the amount error? Can this be considered a violation of other consumer protection law/reg? UDAAP?
08/18/2024
Regarding a cancellation request of a consumer foreign remittance transfer - are there any document retention requirements related to the canceled wire transfer request? Is the FI required to retain a copy of the wire transfer request form or any other documentation related to the transaction since it never occurred if canceled within the 30-minute window?
Our bank has a log to record all canceled international wire transfer requests, but that is the only documentation.