Lawmakers call for CFPB to delay remittance rule

August 17, 2012

Lawmakers call for CFPB to delay remittance rule

At the urging of NAFCU and other financial services trades, a bipartisan group of House lawmakers sent a letter Thursday to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau requesting that the implementation of the final rule on remittances be delayed.

The joint letter, led by Blaine Luetkemeyer, R-Mo., and Yvette Clark, D-N.Y., points out that the rule was intended to provide greater transparency and certainty, as well as increased access to low-cost transfer services for consumers. Instead, it puts access to transfer services "in serious jeopardy due to the nearly impossible compliance challenge that financial institutions must solve by next February."

A key obstacle is the requirement that financial institutions will have to create their own closed networks, a concern NAFCU continues to express since most credit unions operate with open systems. The lawmakers note that it could take "several years to develop" those new systems, which may prompt some institutions to stop offering such services. As a result of the final rule, "thousands of banks, credit unions, and broker-dealers will no longer send consumer-initiated international funds transfer because of the final rules," the lawmakers write. Consumers may also face higher costs and fewer options as a result.

The CFPB issued the final rule on Aug. 7, with CFPB Director Richard Cordray putting in a call to NAFCU President and CEO Fred Becker in advance of the announcement to let him know that it would include an exemption for any institution that handles no more than 100 remittances a year. While this may provide some relief to a limited number of credit unions, NAFCU is concerned that the agency only factors in the number of transactions handled and not the size of institutions affected.

Originally, the CFPB set an implementation date of Feb. 7, 2013. The lawmakers are requesting the bureau push that date back by two years so the full impact of the rule can be studied.

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