Enforcement Actions

We are authorized to take enforcement actions against:

• National banks
• Federally chartered savings associations and their subsidiaries
• Federal branches and agencies of foreign banks
• IAPs, including officers, directors, employees, controlling stockholders, agents, and certain other individuals

The Enforcement group serves as the OCC's counsel for formal investigations and enforcement actions.

In This Section

• Enforcement Action Types
• Enforcement Actions Search Tool
• Recent Selected Litigated Enforcement Actions
• Comptroller's Orders on Interlocutory Appeal and Miscellaneous Comptroller's Orders

Note: Enforcement actions taken against federally chartered savings associations (thrifts) prior to July 21, 2011, are only available in the OTS Enforcement Order Archive (XLS). For information about the data fields used in this spreadsheet, refer to the Enforcement Order Listing Definitions (PDF).

To obtain a paper copy of an order, agreement, or directive, you may submit a request electronically through the OCC's online FOIA site.

Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)
Comptroller of the Currency
Disclosure Officer
Suite 3E-218
Mail Stop 6W-11
Washington, DC 20219

Include: Banking organization name; individual (if any); Enforcement Action Number; your mailing address, fax number, and telephone number; and how you want to receive the document (mail, fax, or pick up).

Financial Institutions not Regulated by the OCC

Visit these Websites to learn about enforcement actions against financial institutions supervised by other government agencies:

• Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation: state chartered banks that are not members of the Federal Reserve System and insured branches of foreign banks.
• Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System: state-chartered banks that are members of the Federal Reserve System; bank holding companies and their nonbank subsidiaries; Edge Act and agreement corporations; and branches and agencies of foreign banking organizations operating in the United States and their parent banks.
• National Credit Union Administration: credit unions.
• Securities and Exchange Commission: federal securities laws

Enforcement Issuances

• Activities Permissible for National Banks and Federal Savings Associations, Cumulative