PYMNTS

JUNE 20, 2017

Prepaid card rules have been under fire ever since the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) put out its new regulations back in October 2016. As such, the CFPB has put out new regulations and is welcoming comments. New regulations would remove this limit.

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APRIL 25, 2019

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) announced Thursday (April 25) that it has issued a request for information on its remittance rule, which had faced calls by the Credit Union National Association for revision. The rules excluded a provider that does less than 100 transfers.

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The Payments Association

MARCH 18, 2025

Open finance is transforming financial services by enabling broader data-sharing, fostering competition, and driving innovation in payments and financial products. As more jurisdictions refine regulations and expand open finance frameworks, the focus will shift to interoperability, consumer trust, and cross-industry data integration.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

If data is the oil that brings change to financial services, the pipelines are increasingly under scrutiny. Late last week, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) said it will look to issue advance notice of proposed rulemaking on “open banking” by the end of this year.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 12, 2019

In the lawsuit, filed in in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, PayPal said the CFPB rule that requires disclosure for digital wallets and prepaid debit cards places “unreasonable restrictions” on consumers’ abilities to link certain credit products to PayPal accounts.

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The Paypers

JANUARY 17, 2025

Technology trade groups NetChoice and TechNet have announced their decision to sue the US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) to oppose a new rule providing the regulator with supervisory authority over payment apps and digital wallets.

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Global Fintech & Digital Assets

DECEMBER 18, 2023

By Jenny Cieplak , Parag Patel , Barrie VanBrackle , and Deric Behar On November 7, 2023, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) proposed a rule, Defining Larger Participants of a Market for General-Use Digital Consumer Payment Applications (the Proposal), to supervise large providers of digital wallets and payment apps.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 4, 2019

In today’s payments news, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has proposed to boost the number of smaller banks and credit unions (CUs) that would not be governed by rules tied to international money transfers. CFPB Proposal On Remittances Offers Exemptions For Banks, CUs.

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Finovate

OCTOBER 22, 2024

financial services community has been waiting for for at least a year– the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) issued its final 1033 rule making. The CFPB states that the rule promotes competition and consumer choice, and will ultimately help improve customer service.

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Fintech Finance

MAY 24, 2024

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has issued an interpretive rule that confirms that Buy Now, Pay Later lenders are credit card providers. Accordingly, Buy Now, Pay Later lenders must provide consumers some key legal protections and rights that apply to conventional credit cards.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

As the payments landscape evolves and becomes ever more digital in scope, and as FinTech firms make inroads into traditional financial services, regulators are looking at FinTech credit — and how it might be defined and shaped. There seem to be no easy answers on just how to regulate the space. trillion.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 25, 2018

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has extended the effective date on its 2016 prepaid card rule, among other modifications announced today (Jan. The rule change has drawn some early praise from industry sources.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 25, 2019

A federal judge late last week ordered a stay on the August 2019 compliance date tied to the “ payday lending rule ” mandated roughly two years ago by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). The ruling, per U.S.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

No Open And Shut Path For Open Banking As CFPB Mulls Rules. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has said it will look to issue advance notice of proposed rulemaking on “open banking” by the end of this year. NEW DATA: Five Payments Innovations For Winning The Digital-First Shopper.

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Payment Savvy

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

In 2020, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) published two rules which implement the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA). This federal law, known as Regulation F goes into effect on November 30, 2021. In that case, you must comply with this comprehensive new rule.

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The Fintech Times

JULY 15, 2024

The new proposed interpretive rule would ensure that nonbank financial companies adhere to the same credit card lending rules as large banks, credit unions, and other financial institutions already supervised by the CFPB.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 13, 2020

The dawn of 2020 brought a spate of new rules governing data collection and use. And, as has been reported, breaching these rules means companies may be fined by the EU the equivalent of up to 4 percent of revenues. In India, Reuters reports that the government has mulled changing the rules that govern digital content.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 6, 2019

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has requested comment on the proposed amendments of two rules that protect the privacy and security of customer data held by financial institutions (FIs). The proposed changes are related to the Safeguards Rule and the Privacy Rule under the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

there are indications that the opening of data flows between financial services companies has led to strong innovation (and demand for that innovation), and more regulation may loom. regulators have taken a more hands-off approach by issuing non-binding guidelines, thus allowing industry stakeholders to pave the way forward.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

has strongly hinted that the agency she birthed in 2008 and opened for business in 2011 — the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) — should be given the authority to do even more. But here we are — the most horrific breach of highly sensitive consumer data ever recorded in the U.S.,

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PYMNTS

JULY 26, 2020

The nation’s consumer protection agency is seeking input on rule changes to third-party access to individual financial records.

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The Fintech Times

MAY 22, 2024

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), a US government agency responsible for protecting consumers in the financial sector, has ruled that buy now, pay later (BNPL) lenders must treat consumers as credit card providers do, ensuring they receive the same key protections.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 3, 2020

For those unfamiliar with the term, zombie debt is debt a consumer legitimately owed, but that has passed the statute of limitations for when the debt can be collected in a court and/or has passed the duration of time it can be reported to the credit reporting bureaus. Tightening the Rules.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 9, 2018

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) introduced a final rule on Thursday (March 8) that it said will help mortgage servicers communicate with borrowers who are facing bankruptcy. The CFPB said the Truth in Lending Act requires that mortgage servicers provide borrowers with periodic statements.

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PYMNTS

JULY 8, 2020

CFPB Eases Payday Lending Rules. The federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has eliminated a rule that placed limits on payday lenders.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 18, 2019

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has asked the United States Congress for the authority to supervise compliance of the Military Lending Act (MLA), the organization announced on Thursday (Jan.

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FICO

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

Less than two weeks after the compliance deadline for the TILA-RESPA Integrated Disclosure (TRID) rule , the CFPB issued its final rule revising HMDA (Regulation C). The Dodd-Frank Act directed the CFPB to expand the data reported under HMDA and provided it with rulemaking authority.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

The next chapter in the ongoing saga that is payday loan regulation officially began yesterday (Feb. 6), with the announcement that the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) will overhaul a series of 2017 payday loan regulations, set to go into effect in August 2019. The Path To Revision.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

Last month, Canada’s Competition Bureau released its final study on tech-led innovation in FinTech, offering regulators some thoughts on competition in the payments sphere, along with suggestions on where the competitive landscape could be improved. If Starbucks goes under, the individual has lost the $20 they have put on the card.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 7, 2019

One key state law that is in place, and which help inform other laws, as has been reported, exists with the California Consumer Privacy Act , which in turn can be traced to the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) mandated by the European Union. CFPB Unconstitutional?

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PYMNTS

JULY 21, 2020

CFPB Consumer Complaints Up 50 Pct During Pandemic. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has recorded record-high numbers of complaints every month since the pandemic hit in mid-March, according to a press release from the U.S. PIRG Education Fund.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 31, 2020

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) filed a lawsuit on Thursday (Jan. The CFPB said that Citizens Bank neglected to follow the rules for years by failing to properly manage credit card disputes. 30) against Citizens Bank over alleged violations of the Truth In Lending Act (TILA).

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 20, 2021

In broad strokes, open banking lays out a path and process for banks and other financial institutions (FIs) to share their customers’ data with third parties (even competitors), where that data tie into apps and new products and services. And though the initiative may have had ground zero in the U.K., Open Banking In The States .

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 27, 2020

To say that 2020 has already started off as a busy year for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) might be an understatement. In the most recent news late last week, the CFPB said it would change the way it defines and addresses “ abusive ” practices within the financial services arena.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 30, 2018

Elizabeth Warren, putting more pressure on acting Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) director, sent a letter asking Mick Mulvaney if he is helping the industries that he is supposed to be overseeing. Your recent admission also raises questions about your other official actions at the CFPB.

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PYMNTS

JULY 11, 2017

And, as a result, higher fees for consumers levied by cautious lenders, when they lend at all? The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has handed down a controversial ruling stating companies cannot opt to use arbitration clauses in their contracts with consumers in a manner that keeps consumers from joining class action lawsuits.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 4, 2018

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) said this past week that it is linking up with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, eyeing a regulatory sandbox for FinTech firms. The sandbox is getting a bit bigger — the regulatory kind, that is. As noted at the time, the U.S. in sandbox development.

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