Defining Larger Participants of the International Money Transfer Market

Résumé

The Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection (Bureau or CFPB) amends the regulation defining larger participants of certain consumer financial product and service markets by adding a new section to define larger participants of a market for international money transfers. The Bureau is issuing this final rule pursuant to its authority, under the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, to supervise certain nonbank covered persons for compliance with Federal consumer financial law and for other purposes. The Bureau has the authority to supervise nonbank covered persons of all sizes in the residential mortgage, private education lending, and payday lending markets. In addition, the Bureau has the authority to supervise nonbank "larger participant[s]" of markets for other consumer financial products or services, as the Bureau defines by rule. The Bureau has issued rules defining larger participants of markets for consumer reporting, consumer debt collection, and student loan servicing. This final rule identifies a market for international money transfers and defines "larger participants" of this market that are subject to the Bureau's supervisory authority.