Article: Direct Merchants Bank Announces Agreement With OCC.

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MINNETONKA, Minn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 4, 2001

Direct Merchants Credit Card Bank, N.A., announced today that it has reached an agreement with the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) regarding sales and marketing practices used in a series of limited test marketing campaigns that ended nearly a year ago. Under the terms of the agreement, Direct Merchants Bank agreed to pay approximately $3.2 million in restitution to an estimated 62,000 credit card customers.

Direct Merchants Bank, based in Scottsdale, Ariz., said it already had decided to stop the test marketing campaigns before the OCC brought the matter to the ...

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