For those banks that fervently prayed the almost 1,700-page Prepaid Account rule would be banished by the Party of Lincoln – sorry but it survived the recent round of regulatory rollbacks. Courtesy of the law firm, Ballard Spahr, and its Consumer Finance Monitor (CFM) webpage and Politico, we have learned that the joint resolutions introduced in the Senate and House in February to kill the upcoming Prepaid Account regulation, died on the vine of apathy. […]
Category: Deposit Compliance
PREPAID RULE TAKES A MUCH NEEDED PAUSE
On October 3, 2016, the CFPB issued its 1,689 page Final Rule on Prepaid Accounts which was to primarily become effective on October 1, 2017. Surprisingly, the CFPB announced in a release last week, on March 9, 2017, that it was proposing to delay the implementation date for the rule until April 1, 2018. The CFPB is giving some love to the Deposit Compliance side of the bank much like it did with TRID on […]