
Federal prosecutors settled a civil fraud lawsuit against Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. Alleging that it violated the Financial Institutions Reform Recovery and Enforcement Act by fraudulently overcharging hundreds of commercial customers, many of them small and medium-sized businesses and federally-insured financial institutions, which used the bank's foreign exchange service. Specifically, the United States alleged that, from 2010 through 2017, Wells Fargo FX sales specialists defrauded 771 customers by systematically charging them higher markups on FX transactions than they represented the bank would charge, and concealing these overcharges through various misrepresentations and deceptive practices. For more info visit https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/manhattan-us-attorney-announces-726-million-settlement-fraud-lawsuit-against-wells