CFPB Drops Suit Against US Banks Over Alleged Fraud on Zelle (1)

March 5, 2025, 2:27 AM UTC

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau dismissed another Biden-era lawsuit, this one targeting some of the world’s largest banks for allegedly rushing out a peer-to-peer payment network that then allowed fraud to proliferate.

The agency dropped the case against JPMorgan Chase & Co., Bank of America Corp. and Wells Fargo & Co. along with the parent company of the consumer payment network Zelle with prejudice, meaning it cannot be reopened, according to a filing Tuesday in US District Court for the District of Arizona.

The lawsuit,filed at the end of last year, alleged that the banks’ lack of safeguards ...

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