CFPB Working on Uniform Prepaid Card Disclosures, Rule Expected
March 31, 2014
CFPB staff members were in Los Angeles earlier this month to show interested members of the public a pair of potential disclosures the bureau may propose for use on the packaging of prepaid cards. “We’re developing new disclosures as part of a larger project that will provide a variety of protections for prepaid card users,” said Eric Goldberg, a counsel in the CFPB’s Division of Research, Markets & Regulations, in a recent blog post. The bureau is expecting to propose a rule on the topic later this spring. Currently, each prepaid card company’s retail package discloses different information, which makes it difficult to do side-by-side comparisons.