GIACT and Hudson Cook Break Down NACHA’s New Account Validation Rule
The Interchange Fee Prohibition Act (IFPA), signed into law in June of 2024 by Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker, prohibits banks, savings associations, credit union, and others from receiving or charging an interchange fee on...more
In recent years, banking fraud in France has surged, driven by advanced technology and the integration of payment methods and mobile banking. We do a deep dive into the legislation to help our clients stay informed and...more
On July 25, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB or Bureau) released an Issue Spotlight focusing on the fees associated with electronic payment platforms used by school districts to process school lunch payments. In...more
Illinois has become the first state to adopt legislation banning interchange fees on the tax amount and gratuity (tip) amount of a credit or debit payment transaction. The Illinois Interchange Fee Prohibition Act (IFPA)i,...more
On May 29, 2024, Illinois lawmakers passed an omnibus budget bill (HB4951) that includes the Interchange Fee Prohibition Act (the “Act”). The Act prohibits the collection of debit and credit card interchange fees for sales...more
On March 26, 2024, a decree was published in the Mexican Federal Official Gazette amending, adding, and repealing certain provisions of the General Law on Negotiable Instruments and Credit Transactions and the General Law of...more
Consumers often are able to effect transactions by providing payment authorization ahead of time. How often a consumer may authorize a prescheduled transaction differs slightly under Regulation E and the National Automated...more
On February 15, Senators Sherrod Brown (D-OH), Jack Reed (D-RI) and Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) sent a letter to Zelle seeking clarification of its reimbursement policy for victims of imposter scams. Calling its protocol for...more
Recently, three Republican members of the U.S. House of Representatives’ Financial Services Committee, Patrick McHenry, Mike Flood, and French Hill, sent a joint letter to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB or...more
On February 15, 2024, Senators Sherrod Brown (D-OH), Jack Reed (D-RI) and Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) sent a letter to Zelle seeking clarification of its reimbursement policy for victims of imposter scams and urging Zelle to...more
In this blog, we take a look at some new jargon and key terms that you might come across in your transactions or industry discussions in the coming months. Trade & Export Finance - Uniform Rules for Transferable Electronic...more
Authorised Push Payment (“APP”) fraud, where victims are tricked into authorising payments to fraudsters, resulted in losses of £485.2m in 2022 and is reported to have risen by 22% in 2023. With consumer protection laws...more
On November 7, 2023, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau ("CFPB") proposed a new rule, to be codified at 12 C.F.R. § 1090.109, that would bring general-use digital payment processors who process more than five million...more
On November 7, 2023, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau ("CFPB") issued a proposed rule that would grant it supervisory authority over major nonbank technology companies in the consumer digital payments space....more
On November 7, 2023, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (“CFPB”) issued a proposed rule that would allow it to exercise its supervisory authority over larger nonbanks offering digital consumer payment applications, such...more
As we reported last week, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (“CFPB”) released a proposed rule addressing “personal data financial rights.” Comments are due on December 29, 2023....more
A coalition of fifty AGs settled with payment processor ACI Payments, Inc. and its parent company (collectively, ACI) to resolve allegations that ACI violated state consumer protection laws and regulations when a testing...more
On May 19, 2023, Montana’s Governor signed Senate Bill 384, the Consumer Data Privacy Act. Montana joins California, Colorado, Connecticut, Indiana, Iowa, Tennessee, Utah, and Virginia in enacting a comprehensive consumer...more
President Recommends Regulatory Reforms to Address Recent Bank Failures - President Biden has issued a statement urging the federal banking agencies to adopt regulatory reforms that are meant to reduce the risk of future...more
Sunday’s joint statement by the Department of Treasury, the Federal Reserve and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) that all depositors of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank of New York would have access to...more
On March 8, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) published a special edition of its Supervisory Highlights report that focused on back-end fees charged to consumers in connection with deposits, auto servicing,...more
One of the biggest developments in payroll in recent years is the rise of “on-demand pay”, also often called “earned wage access”. Earned wage access programs, which are built on the premise that workers should have access...more
Con la expedición del Decreto 1297 de 2022, el Ministerio de Hacienda y Crédito Público presenta un nuevo avance en materia financiera mediante la modificación del Decreto 2555 de 2010, en lo relacionado con la regulación de...more
At the latest Trade & Export Finance webinar, partner Geoffrey Wynne delved into the topic of Irrevocable/Independent Payment Undertaking commonly referred to as an IPU. An IPU is a payment obligation usually given by the...more
On May 24, the FTC finalized an order against an electronic payment processor and its owners for allegedly opening credit card processing accounts for fake companies on behalf of a scam company previously sued by the FTC....more