In this episode of the Innovative Payments Association Podcast, we present highlights from our members-only publications and cover industry developments, federal regulation, state legislation, and more.

Among the topics we cover are bill that seek to update California laws in the wake of the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018. Two bills seek to make changes based on the provisions or the act.

We also talk about what is going on at the CFPB and how pending legislation seeks to change that.

We also talk about how American’s feel about their financial situation and why the Fed’s research into this topic is important for financial services providers.

Learn more about the IPA’s Lobbying day.

Information on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s Symposium.

The Fed’s study on financial well being can be found here.

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In the latest episode of the Innovative Payments Pod, Dr. Billy J. Hensley, the president and CEO of the National Endowment for Financial Education addresses the question of whether or not financial education works.

He talks about why financial education is an ongoing process and why we rely on a single course in high school to make people financially literate. People need a foundation that helps them make sense of financial information. Companies need to help by providing good information in an ongoing way.

This will help financial services providers develop a better customer base. Educated customers who build their resources and financial reserves will need more services.

You can learn more about NEFE and its work here: https://www.nefe.org/

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The police often hear about prepaid card fraud before the industry does. They get calls from people who have been the victims of criminals. In the process of collecting the reports, they get information on how criminals perpetrate their scams.

In this episode of the IPA Payments Pod, Innovative Payments Association (“IPA”) the association presents highlights from one its Financial Crimes Task Force calls. While recordings of these calls are normally posted for members only on our Web site, the Association and our guest, Chief Steven Lewis, thought it should be shared more broadly. Chief Lewis is the head of the Ellisville, Mo., Police Department. He described the kinds of fraud attacks that are reported to his department and discussed ways the industry and law enforcement might be able to work together to combat financial crimes involving prepaid cards.

The Association is interested in finding ways to help prevent crime before it happens, and in solving crimes when they do. We invite interested parties to reach out with ideas and intelligence on financial crimes to help us in this work.