Remittance Transfers

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The CFPB has released a “Remittance Rule Assessment Report.”  The report was issued pursuant to Section 1022(d) of the Dodd-Frank Act which requires the CFPB to conduct a review of a significant rule and publish an assessment report within five years of the rule’s effective date.  The remittance report represents the first assessment report issued by the CFPB pursuant to Section 1022(d).… Continue Reading

The CFPB has issued a notice regarding its plans to conduct an assessment of its remittance transfer rule which became effective on October 28, 2013.

The assessment is being conducted under Section 1022(d) of the Dodd-Frank Act which requires the CFPB to conduct an assessment “of each significant rule or order adopted by the Bureau under Federal consumer financial law.” … Continue Reading

The CFPB has issued its September 2016 complaint report which highlights complaints about money transfers and complaints from consumers in Pennsylvania and the Philadelphia metro area.  The CFPB began taking money transfer complaints in April 2013.

General findings include the following:

  • As of September 1, 2016, the CFPB handled approximately 982,400 complaints nationally, including approximately 28,700 complaints in August 2016.
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The CFPB has issued a final rule that will allow it to supervise nonbank international money transfer providers that qualify as “larger participants” in the international money transfer market.  Consistent with the proposed rule, the final rule defines larger participants as those providers that engage annually in 1 million or more international money transfers. … Continue Reading

The CFPB has issued a final rule that extends for five years (until July 21, 2020) the temporary exception in its remittance transfer rule that allows insured depository institutions to estimate fees and exchange rates in certain circumstances.  The rule also includes “several clarifications and technical corrections” to the rule and commentary. … Continue Reading

On July 3rd, the CFPB released a Report on the Use of Remittance Histories in Credit Scoring (the “Report”). Section 1073(e) of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act required the CFPB Director to study the feasibility of and impediments to using remittance transfer information (i.e.… Continue Reading

The CFPB has extended the comment period on its proposal to extend for five years the temporary exception in its remittance transfer rule that allows insured depository institutions to estimate fees and exchange rates in certain circumstances and to make several other changes and technical corrections to the rule.  Absent the five year extension, the temporary exception would expire on July 21, 2015. … Continue Reading

The CFPB has issued a proposal to extend for five years the temporary exception in its remittance transfer rule that allows insured depository institutions to estimate fees and exchange rates in certain circumstances.  The proposal also includes “several clarificatory amendments and technical corrections” to the rule and commentary. 

The CFPB’s remittance transfer rule implements Section 1073 of Dodd-Frank, which amended the Electronic Fund Transfer Act to establish new requirements for remittance transfer providers. … Continue Reading

We had been expecting the CFPB’s next “larger participant” proposal to be a rule for the auto finance market.  Instead, the CFPB issued a proposed rule yesterday that would allow it to supervise nonbank international money transfer providers that qualify as “larger participants” in the international money transfer market.  The proposal is based on the CFPB’s Dodd-Frank authority to supervise nonbank entities considered to be “a larger participant of a market for other consumer financial products or services.” … Continue Reading