(a) Notwithstanding any law to the contrary and except as otherwise provided in subsection (b), all information or reports obtained by the commissioner from an applicant, licensee, or authorized delegate, whether obtained through reports, applications, examination, audits, investigation, or otherwise, including, but not limited to, all information contained in or related to an examination, investigation, operating report, and condition report prepared by, on behalf of, or for the use of the commissioner, or financial statements, balance sheets, and authorized delegate information, are confidential and must not be disclosed or distributed outside the department by the commissioner or any officer or employee of the department, and are not open for inspection by members of the public.
Terms Used In Tennessee Code 45-7-108
Authorized delegate: means a person that a licensee designates to engage in money transmission on behalf of the licensee. See Tennessee Code 45-7-103
Bank: means any person, as hereinafter defined, doing a banking business subject to the laws of this or any other jurisdiction and, for the purposes of supervision, examination and liquidation, includes industrial investment companies and industrial banks authorized by chapter 5 of this title. See Tennessee Code 45-1-103
operating: means that:(A) A charter has been issued to a bank by the United States comptroller of the currency or a certificate of authority has been issued by the commissioner. See Tennessee Code 45-1-103
State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the several territories of the United States. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.
(b)(1) The commissioner may disclose confidential information in a manner the commissioner deems proper to:
(A) Local, state, or federal agencies; and(B) The Conference of StateBank Supervisors and the Money Transmission Regulator Association; provided, that these associations have entered into confidentiality agreements with the commissioner.(2) A licensed money transmitter is entitled to access to a copy of the report of examination on the money transmitter prepared by the commissioner or the commissioner’s designee. The report of examination in the possession of a licensee remains confidential and is not subject to subpoena.(3) This section does not prohibit the commissioner from disclosing to the public a list of all licensees or the aggregated financial or transactional data concerning those licensees.
