ETA Expert Insights: Money Transmitter Licenses – 5 Key Takeaways

ETA’s Payment Facilitator Committee meets monthly to discuss challenges and opportunities within the payment facilitator ecosystem, including industry rule updates, risk & compliance and emerging opportunities. The committee recently implemented roundtable discussions to start each meeting to allow members to hear from experts on pressing issues impacting the industry. In early September, the focus of the first roundtable was Money Transmitter Licenses. The committee came up with the following five key takeaways on Money Transmitter License, or MTL, which is a business entity that provides money transfer services or payment instruments.

Interested in joining the committee? Reach out to Sarah Brown-Campello to join the October 2 discussion on PCI Security.

Over the past year, we’ve also worked to harness the collective expertise of ETA and its members through our committees to help navigate industry-wide opportunities and challenges. In conjunction with ETA’s Risk, Fraud, and Security Committee, for example, the fourth edition of the ETA Guidelines on Merchant and ISO Underwriting and Risk Monitoring was released to help our members mitigate risk in U.S. card acceptance; the revised document includes updates related to COVID, e-commerce, privacy, and the FinCEN Beneficial Ownership Customer Due Diligence program. We are further expanding the work of our committees, providing forums to network and share best practices, and to demonstrate your organization’s thought leadership.