- Chief Compliance Officer and VP of Legal Affairs, Arrow Electronics
By 
Kyle Brasseur2023-10-19T18:59:00
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is moving forward its plan to give consumers more control over their personal financial data.
On Thursday, the CFPB proposed its personal financial data rights rule. The action builds upon a proposal outlined by the agency last year as part of its desire to accelerate the shift toward open banking.
“A more decentralized market structure will give consumers more control and minimize the ability for companies to take customers for granted,” said CFPB Director Rohit Chopra in a statement. “Our proposed rule builds on existing efforts in the industry today to promote decentralization.”
THIS IS MEMBERS-ONLY CONTENT. To continue reading, choose one of the options below.
News and analysis for the well-informed compliance or audit exec. Select an option and click continue.
Annual Membership $499 Value offer
Full price one year membership with auto-renewal.
Membership $599
One-year only, no auto-renewal.
Installment lender World Acceptance Corp. was the subject of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s first use of a dormant legal provision allowing it to establish supervisory authority over more nonbank financial companies.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is seeking greater authority to supervise the activities of companies that offer services like digital wallets and payment apps on par with how the agency oversees large banks, credit unions, and other financial institutions.
Eric Halperin, enforcement director at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, said his office will be adding 75 new full-time employees as part of an expansion of its efforts to protect consumers from misuse of their personal data.
President-elect Donald Trump appeared to strengthen his ties to the crypto industry when he nominated a popular crypto advocate, Patomak Global Partners founder Paul Atkins, to be the next chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Data brokers have been getting away with selling Americans’ personal and financial data without adequate protections, an illegal practice that a new rule proposed by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau will intend to stop, CFPB Director Rohit Chopra said.
In striking down penalties against cryptocurrency mixer Tornado Cash for violating U.S. sanctions, a federal appeals court may have started to chip away at anti-money laundering regulations established by Democrats even before President-elect Donald Trump takes office.
