As banks seek to contact customers with COVID-19-related information, the American Bankers Association asked the Federal Communications Commission on Friday to provide immediate relief confirming that financial institutions’ COVID-19-related calls are exempt from the Telephone Consumer Protection Act’s requirements.
As banks seek to contact customers with COVID-19-related information, the American Bankers Association and six other financial trade groups filed a petition requesting that the Federal Communications Commission issue an expedited declaratory ruling or waiver confirming that financial institutions’ COVID-19-related calls are exempt from the Telephone Consumer Protection Act’s requirements.
ABA joined a broad coalition of trade associations in a letter to the Federal Communications Commission asking the FCC to protect outbound calls placed by banks and other legitimate institutions from telephone companies’ call-blocking programs.
In a comment letter filed today, ABA and other trade groups urged the Federal Communications Commission to protect lawful calls placed by legitimate businesses from telephone companies’ call-blocking programs.
The Federal Communications Commission today voted unanimously to adopt a declaratory ruling permitting voice service providers to enroll customers automatically in a call-blocking program that is based on any reasonable analytics designed to identify unwanted calls.
As the Federal Communications Commission prepares to vote Thursday on a proposal permitting telephone companies to block unwanted calls, the American Bankers Association submitted two letters (dated May 31 and June 3) to the commission explaining how it could result in the erroneous blocking of lawful calls placed by banks.
ABA and other trade groups today urged the Federal Communications Commission to seek feedback before moving forward on its proposal to allow telephone companies to block unwanted calls.
The American Bankers Association joined the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and several other industry trade groups yesterday in urging members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee to ensure that banks and other businesses can communicate with their customers through calls and text messages using modern communications technology.
The American Bankers Association, along with the Consumer Bankers Association and the Independent Community Bankers of America, filed a friend-of-the court brief on Thursday asking the Supreme Court to provide stability and uniformity to the Federal Communications Commission’s rules interpreting the Telephone Consumer Protection Act. The
The Federal Communications Commission today voted unanimously to create a database of phone numbers that have been relinquished by one individual and reassigned to another individual, something that the American Bankers Association has long called for.