Regions Financial Corporation Bank Account Or Service Complaint

Regions Financial Corporation Bank account or service department,

Checking account Problems caused by my funds being low Florida

On the morning of -/-/- I went online to make a transfer from my savings account into one of my checking accounts with Regions Bank. I noticed in my online portal that there were some pending charges. I also noticed that I was assessed an overdraft fee of $100.00, however, the balance at the time the fee was assessed was not negative. I completed my transfer and called to get clarification. The representative told me that while the pending charges had not been taken from my account ( or even been requested from the merchants ) they had preemptively applied them to my balance, thus creating a negative balance and charging - separate overdraft fees to previously made transactions that had already posted, even though the balance after these transactions was still positive. I was rather confused, because this same policy is not applied to deposits, even if transferred with another account within the same bank. When I pushed the issue, I was told that my banking portal was not the same portal that the bank uses, and therefore they were seeing charges and assessing fees based on their interface. Basically, while customers have access to the transactions on their


bank claims that this online banking interface is just a " tool, '' the fact that they do, in fact, have access to information that they are not updating in the portal leads to issues with customers ' understanding of their bank balance, especially when transactions are posted in the customer portal in such a way that it appears that the balance available is still positive. Assessing fees based on projected fund withdrawal, while not counting projected funds deposited is unfair and, at best, questionable. I would be interested to know how much money Regions bank has stolen from customers by assessing fees based on projected account activity. If this is their policy, then all customers should have access to the same account information through a comparable interface, rather than one that is intentionally set up to confuse and manipulate the customer. Surely, this ca n't be a fair and ethical practice.