Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection Amends Regulation for International Money Transfer Market

Summary

The Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection has issued a final rule to define larger participants in the international money transfer market, expanding its supervisory authority to cover nonbank entities involved in this sector.

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