CFPB, Federal Agencies, State Agencies, and Attorneys General
The Senate Banking Committee will hold a hearing tomorrow, June 30, titled, “The Digitization of Money and Payments.”
The witnesses will include Charles Cascarilla, Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder, Paxos, and Professor Nakita Q. Cuttino, Visiting Assistant Professor of Law, Duke University School of Law.
In this podcast, we examine the features of different forms of alternative payments, factors driving consumer demand, contractual and other issues in business transactions involving such payments, including the role of gateways and payment aggregators.
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The House Financial Services Committee’s Task Force on Financial Technology will hold a hearing entitled “The Future of Real-Time Payments,” at 2:00 p.m. on Thursday, September 26, 2019. There will be a live webcast of the hearing.
The memo from the FSC Majority Staff indicates the hearing will focus on the development of a real-time…
Last month, the Federal Reserve Board announced its plans to develop a real-time payments (RTP) service to be offered by the Federal Reserve Banks to directly support faster payments.
Three members of Ballard Spahr’s Consumer Financial Services Group with extensive experience negotiating complex payments transactions for some of the world’s largest retailers and financial institutions…
The Federal Reserve Board has determined that the Federal Reserve should take the following two actions:
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I am pleased to announce that Judy Mok, an attorney with extensive experience negotiating complex payments transactions for some of the world’s largest retailers and financial institutions, has joined Ballard Spahr as Of Counsel in the firm’s Consumer Financial Services Group. She will be based in the firm’s New York office.
Judy has a wealth…
Earlier this month, the Federal Reserve invited comment on actions it can take “to promote ubiquitous, safe, and efficient faster payments in the United States by facilitating real-time interbank settlement of faster payments.” Comments are due by December 14, 2018.
More specifically, the Fed is seeking comment on two potential actions. One action is the…
I am pleased to announce that Chris Ford, an attorney who has led some of the country’s largest and most innovative Fintech and payment systems transactions, has joined Ballard Spahr as a partner in the firm’s Consumer Financial Services Group. He will be based in the firm’s Washington, D.C. office.
Chris advises clients on large-scale…
Earlier this week, the Federal Reserve issued a paper entitled “Strategies for Improving the U.S. Payment System: Federal Reserve Next Steps in the Payments Improvement Journey”. The paper is intended to provide payment industry stakeholders an update on the Fed’s efforts in the last couple years to help improve the speed, safety and efficiency of…
A meeting of the CFPB’s Credit Union Advisory Council has been scheduled for October 8, 2015 at the CFPB’s offices in Washington, DC. The agenda indicates that the “Council will discuss consumer challenges in payments.”
On July 9 of this year, the CFPB released, and we blogged about, nine “Consumer Protection Principles” that are intended…
