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Derek Rose

'Repeat offender' NAB fined $2m over unauthorised fees

The judgment said NAB placed "a low priority on respecting the legal rights of its customers". (Diego Fedele/AAP PHOTOS)

National Australia Bank has been ordered to pay a $2.1 million penalty for charging customers incorrect fees - with the judge calling the fine "wholly inadequate" and lamenting it couldn't be more. 

Federal Court Justice Roger Derrington wrote in an order on Friday that NAB continued to charge the fees for recurring payments from January 2017 until July 2018 even though it knew it had no contractual entitlement to do so.

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