A joint resolution disapproving the rule submitted by the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection relating to "Defining Larger Participants of a Market for General-Use Digital Consumer Payment Applications".
Popular digital payment and money-transfer apps will remain exempt from the routine federal oversight that traditional banks face. The measure stops a federal rule that would have allowed government regulators to conduct ongoing, proactive examinations of large tech payment services to ensure they follow consumer protection, privacy, and fraud-prevention laws. Without this rule, federal agencies can still investigate specific consumer complaints or illegal acts, but they cannot routinely audit the companies' day-to-day operations.
What this bill touches.
Who it helps · who it burdens.
Who it helps
- Large digital consumer payment application and wallet providersAre relieved from Consumer Financial Protection Bureau federal supervision and compliance examinations because the rule defining larger participants in general-use digital consumer payment applications is disapproved and given no legal force or effect.
Who opposes it
- Consumer Financial Protection BureauHas its final rule expanding supervisory authority over large digital payment applications disapproved and rendered without legal force or effect.
The provisions, in plain language.
Overturns the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's rule expanding federal supervision over large digital consumer payment applications and digital wallet providers, ensuring the rule has no legal force or effect.