{"id":126970,"date":"2022-08-04T19:09:54","date_gmt":"2022-08-04T19:09:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/appleinsider.com\/articles\/22\/08\/04\/goldman-sachs-credit-card-practices-under-investigation-by-us-watchdog?utm_medium=rss"},"modified":"2022-08-04T19:09:54","modified_gmt":"2022-08-04T19:09:54","slug":"goldman-sachs-credit-card-practices-under-investigation-by-us-watchdog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2022\/08\/04\/goldman-sachs-credit-card-practices-under-investigation-by-us-watchdog\/","title":{"rendered":"Goldman Sachs credit card practices under investigation by US watchdog"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/goldman-sachs-credit-card-practices-under-investigation-by-us-watchdog.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<div>\n<p> <em> AppleInsider is supported by its audience and may earn commission as an Amazon Associate and affiliate partner on qualifying purchases. These affiliate partnerships do not influence our editorial content. <\/em> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Goldman Sachs, Apple&#8217;s partner bank for its <a href=\"https:\/\/appleinsider.com\/inside\/apple-card\">Apple Card<\/a> offering, has revealed that it is facing an investigation by a U.S. consumer watchdog\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"col-sm-12\">\n<p>The bank revealed the investigation in a quarterly 10-Q form <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/finance\/goldman-discloses-probe-into-us-credit-card-division-2022-08-04\/\">filed Thursday<\/a> with the Securities and Exchange Commission. According to the filing, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is probing Goldman Sachs&#8217; credit card account management practices, refunds, and billing error resolutions. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"col-sm-12\">\n<p>The filing offered no other details about the probe, and did not name the specific credit cards or accounts that are included in the investigation.\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"col-sm-12\">\n<p>However, it&#8217;s likely that the investigation is centered on the Apple Card. Other than a co-branded credit card with General Motors, the Apple Card represents Goldman Sachs&#8217; only consumer credit card product.\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"col-sm-12\">\n<p>This is not the first time that Goldman Sachs has been investigated for credit card products. In 2019, the bank was accused of discriminatory behavior on allegations that longer lines of credit were distributed based on gender.\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"col-sm-12\">\n<p>In 2021, the New York State Department of Financial Services <a href=\"https:\/\/appleinsider.com\/articles\/21\/03\/23\/goldman-sachs-cleared-of-apple-card-discrimination-claims\">cleared Goldman Sachs<\/a> of those claims after an investigation.\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"col-sm-12\">\n<p>The Apple Card hasn&#8217;t been spotless since its debut in 2019. Issues has included <a href=\"https:\/\/appleinsider.com\/articles\/21\/10\/22\/apple-card-6-cash-back-rate-may-have-been-an-error-report-claims\">erroneous cash back rates<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/appleinsider.com\/articles\/21\/10\/01\/apple-card-issue-results-in-bill-pay-other-problems-for-some-users\">system problems<\/a> that prevented users from making bill payments or accessing account management features.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AppleInsider is supported by its audience and may earn commission as an Amazon Associate and affiliate partner on qualifying purchases. These affiliate partnerships do not influence our editorial content. Goldman Sachs, Apple&#8217;s partner bank for its Apple Card offering, has revealed that it is facing an investigation by a U.S. consumer watchdog The bank revealed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":126971,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-apple-insider"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126970\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}