Docket of the Office of Administrative Adjudication
The OAA docket includes all public documents filed in
administrative proceedings before the Office of Administrative
Adjudication. The docket does not include documents containing
confidential information covered under a protective order or
other order authorizing confidential treatment.
Types of proceedings in the OAA docket:
Administrative adjudication
The Bureau initiates an administrative adjudication proceeding by
filing a notice of charges. Administrative adjudications are
conducted by an administrative law judge, who holds formal
hearings and issues a recommended decision.
Stipulation and consent order
Stipulations and consent orders consist of proceedings where the
parties agree to settlement and file a stipulation and a consent
order before the filing of a notice of charges.
Not all enforcement actions initiated by the Bureau are filed with
the Office of Administrative Adjudication. The Enforcement docket
includes proceedings not filed with the Office of Administrative
Adjudication, such as federal district court cases.
On January 17, 2025, the Bureau issued an order against
Equifax, Inc. and Equifax Information Services LLC, one of
the largest consumer reporting agencies in the country.
On January 17, 2025, the Bureau issued an order against
American Honda Finance Corporation to address its
violations relating to its furnishing of inaccurate
consumer reporting information.
On January 16, 2025, the Bureau issued an order against
Block, Inc. (Block), a nonbank headquartered in Oakland,
California which operates Cash App, a mobile payments
application through which consumers can send and receive
money through peer-to-peer transfers.
On December 9, 2024, the Bureau issued an order against
Performant Recovery, Inc., to address its unlawful
collection activities involving student-loan borrowers who
were attempting to bring their student loans out of
default.
On November 14, 2024, the Bureau issued an order against
Global Tel Link Corporation, d/b/a ViaPath Technologies,
and its subsidiaries Telmate, LLC, d/b/a ViaPath
Technologies, and TouchPay Holdings, LLC, d/b/a GTL
Financial Services.
On August 29, 2024, the Bureau issued an order against New
Day Financial, LLC (NewDay), a nonbank direct mortgage
lender headquartered in West Palm Beach, Florida,
specializing in offering refinance mortgage loans
guaranteed by the United States Department of Veterans
Affairs.
On July 9, 2024, the Bureau issued an order against Fifth
Third Bank, N.A., a national bank that, among other
things, offers and services motor vehicle loans to
consumers directly and through a variety of vehicle
dealers.
On June 18, 2024, the Bureau issued an order against
Sutherland Global Services, Inc., Sutherland Mortgage
Services, Inc., and Sutherland Government Solutions, Inc.
Sutherland ran a loan-servicing operation that serviced
home equity conversion mortgages, or reverse mortgage
loans, on behalf of the Department of Housing and Urban
Development (HUD)
On June 18, 2024, the Bureau issued an order against NOVAD
Management Consulting, LLC. NOVAD ran a loan-servicing
operation that serviced home equity conversion mortgages,
or reverse mortgage loans, on behalf of the Department of
Housing and Urban Development (HUD).
On May 20, 2024, the Bureau issued an order against
Western Benefits Group, LLC, a telemarketer and seller of
student-loan debt-relief services, headquartered in
Pleasanton, California.
On May 7, 2024, the Bureau issued an order against Chime
Financial, Inc. (Chime), a financial-technology company
that designed and services consumer banking accounts for
two separate FDIC-insured “partner banks.”
On April 17, 2024, the Bureau issued an order against
BloomTech, Inc., a for-profit vocational school that is
also known as the Bloom Institute of Technology and was
formerly known as the Lambda School, and Austen Allred,
the company’s founder and CEO.
On December 19, 2023, the Bureau issued an order against
U.S. Bank in connection with its administration of prepaid
debit cards that held unemployment insurance benefits.
On December 15, 2023, the Bureau issued an order against
Commonwealth Financial Systems, Inc. (Commonwealth), a
Pennsylvania-based third-party debt collection company
that collects past-due medical debts and furnishes
information about consumers to consumer reporting agencies
(CRAs).
On November 28, 2023, the Bureau issued an order against
Bank of America, N.A., which is a national bank
headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina with branches
and ATMs located in 38 states and the District of
Columbia.
On November 15, 2023, the Bureau issued an order against
Enova International, Inc., a publicly-traded online
small-dollar lender, headquartered in Chicago, Illinois,
that markets, provides, and services loans under the brand
names CashNetUSA (CNU) and NetCredit.
On November 20, 2023, the Bureau issued an order against
Toyota Motor Credit Corporation (“Toyota Credit”), which
is the United States-based auto-financing arm of Toyota
Motor Corporation and one of the largest indirect auto
lenders in the country.