Excerpt: The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has begun the process of issuing new rules to govern the booming, multi-billion dollar market in certain reloadable debit cards. On May 24, 2012, the Bureau issued an Advanced Notice of Proposed... Read More
by Elisa J. Lintemuth The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has proposed new rules to amend Regulation E (Electronic Fund Transfer Act) and Regulation Z (Truth in Lending Act) to create protections for consumers using prepaid cards. These proposed... Read More
by H. Scott Kelly and Michael E. Lacy On November 13, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau unveiled a comprehensive slate of consumer protections for prepaid debit cards that could increase the customer base for the financial product. The proposed... Read More