Do Gift Cards Keep on Giving How the Law Affects the Consumer, the Retailer and the State
Here are last week’s curated AG and federal regulatory news stories highlighting key areas in which state and federal regulators’ decisions are having an impact across the US: FTC Launches Inquiry Into Formula Shortage- ...more
Thank you for your interest in the Wiley Consumer Protection Download! This will be our last publication of 2021, with our bi-weekly newsletter returning in January 2022. Welcome to Wiley’s update on recent developments...more
Welcome to Wiley’s update on recent developments and what’s next in consumer protection at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) and Federal Trade Commission (FTC). In this newsletter, we analyze recent regulatory...more
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has issued a brief press announcement that the Prepaid Card Rule would be further revised and that the effective date for compliance will be further postponed from the current deadline...more
As we previewed earlier this year, the CFPB, on June 15, proposed substantive changes to the Prepaid Final Rule (the “Rule”). The proposed changes are generally positive for prepaid providers and incorporate feedback and...more
On October 13, the DWT Payments team briefed the Consumer Working Group of the Financial Services Roundtable (FSR) on the CFPB’s final prepaid account rule. The presentation focused on the following topics: - Scope of...more
It’s been a couple months now, so you probably saw the CFPB’s Monthly Complaint Snapshot for November 2015, released in December. The product spotlight for November was money transfers. Notably, however, the CFPB also...more
Despite the CFPB’s plans to issue a proposed regulation concerning prepaid cards this spring, Senator Mark Warner has introduced a bill (S. 1903 ) that would require new disclosures for prepaid cards. The bill, entitled the...more
A Friendly Reminder from the FTC: You May Be in Trouble - Continuing the countdown to the effective date of the amended Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act Rule, the Federal Trade Commission sent “educational...more
Last week, the CFPB issued final determinations as to whether certain Maine and Tennessee laws relating to unclaimed gift cards are preempted by federal law on gift card expiration dates. The rulings represent the CFPB’s...more
On April 19, 2013, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (“CFPB”) announced it was making a determination to preempt a provision of Tennessee unclaimed property law that it deemed inconsistent with the federal Electronic...more