Prepaid Cards – Background Materials
GENERAL BACKGROUND MATERIALS
- Summary of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s Prepaid Card Rule (NCLC)
- The CFPB’s Prepaid Card Rule Benefits Financial Institutions, Prepaid Card Companies, and Employers (NCLC)
- Will Prepaid Card Rules Stifle Innovation? Not if History Is Any Guide (AFR)
- Congress Should Not Block The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s Prepaid Accounts Rule (NCLC)
- Joint Core Principles for Payroll Cards (Consumers Union)
- For Prepaid Card Customers, Overdraft Is the Problem—Not the Solution (Pew Charitable Trusts)
- Prepaid Debit Cards and Payroll Cards Resources (NCLC)
- Payday Lender Prepaid Cards: Overdraft and Junk Fees Hit Cash-Strapped Families Coming and Going 9NCLC)
- Rating State Government Payroll Cards (NCLC)
- Congress Should Not Block Protections for Employee Payroll Cards, April 2017
LETTERS TO POLICY MAKERS
- Attorney Generals’ Letter to Congress supporting the CFPB prepaid card rule
- Center for Financial Services Innovation (CFSI) letter to Senate opposing Senate Joint Resolution 19 which would revoke the CFPB prepaid card rule under the Congressional Review Act
ARTICLES, BLOG POSTS & OP EDS
- Will Prepaid Card Rules Stifle Innovation? Not if History Is Any Guide (AFR)
- NetSpend Stealthily Settles FTC Charges Ahead of Fight Over CFPB Prepaid Card Rules (AFR)
- Votes on CFPB’s Prepaid Rule Carry Deeper Meaning (Wall St Journal)
- AGs ask Congress not to abolish protections for prepaid debit card users (Consumer Affairs)
- Consumer Groups Praise New Rules on Prepaid Debit Cards (NCLC)
- Hollingsworth and resolutions (Herald-Times)
- Sen. David Perdue and Rep. Roger Williams: Send The Prepaid Card Rule To The Shredder (Forbes)
- Congress Should Not Block The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s Prepaid Accounts Rule (NCLC)
ORGANIZATIONAL STATEMENTS
- Attack on common-sense rules for prepaid cards (AFR)
- Congress Should Not Block Protections for Employee Payroll Cards (NCLC)
- CFPB Rule On Prepaid Cards Will Benefit Families (NCLC)
- 2013 Survey of Unemployment Compensation Prepaid Cards (NCLC)
COSPONSORS OF MEASURES TO BLOCK PREPAID RULE