Making good on its word to track concerns such as questionable interest rates and discrimination, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau recently sent a stern message that it is monitoring auto lenders’ activities.

The CFPB said it has ordered U.S. Bank and one of its nonbank partner companies to return nearly $6.5 million to military service members for engaging in deceptive auto loan sales and marketing practices.

On June 27, the agency said it charged the bank and Dealers’ Financial Services for failing to properly disclose all the fees charged to participants in the companies’ Military Installment Loans and Educational Services auto loan program and for misrepresenting the true cost and coverage of add-on products financed along with the auto loans.

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