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The OCC, in December 2017, completed a review of sales practices at more than 40 banks disclosing several instances of unauthorized account openings, American Banker reports, citing OCC spokesman Bryan Hubbard. The probe comes after Wells Fargo & Co. was fined $185 million for opening fraudulent savings and checking accounts on behalf of the company's clients without their consent. The OCC has not publicly released the findings of its review and does not plan to do so, Hubbard said. Dan Ryan, who leads the banking practice at PricewaterhouseCoopers and was briefed on the OCC's findings, told the publication that the regulator issued a total of 252 Matters Requiring Attention notices to banks that were under scrutiny for...