News Topic: customer data

Readers react to Capital One's massive data breach, raise alarm to The Bancorp's expansion in CRE securitizations, defend fintechs offering retirement plans and more. ... Read full article

The bill, similar to legislation that passed the chamber last year, would permit the inclusion of items such as rent and telecom payments to help consumers build their credit profiles. ... Read full article

Banks and third parties must work together to safeguard data being shared when a customer uses mobile apps. ... Read full article

Customers of Marcus, the consumer lending arm that launched in 2016, defy easy categorization, according to an executive at the Wall Street bank. ... Read full article

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau received over a quarter-million complaints in 2018, according to analysis by an advocacy group that urged the agency to maintain public access to its database. ... Read full article

The head of the agency's innovation office said the program will be available only to OCC-regulated institutions. ... Read full article

The online lender's recent completion of a $700 million securitization provided Jonathan Ebinger at BlueRun Ventures an opportunity to reflect on what he has learned about the power of alternative data. ... Read full article

The bank is one of many to realize that artificial intelligence is only as good as the data fed into it. ... Read full article

The new cloud-based solution is intended to help financial institutions make quicker credit decisions by integrating consumers’ histories with advanced software. ... Read full article

Aspiration, Wealthfront and SoFi have all begun offering high-yield savings accounts during the past few weeks. ... Read full article

The companies have teamed up on a product to help banks, especially small ones, give customers more accurate insights into their own financial health. ... Read full article

ComplyAdvantage, Cinnamon and Zoovu recently raised millions of dollars to fuel expansion of their automated risk management, data-scanning and customer service products geared toward financial services companies. ... Read full article

Citigroup's venture capital arm is investing in technology that provides real-time analysis of millions of consumers' card transactions. ... Read full article

Spring Labs is spearheading a group of prominent fintech lenders to use a blockchain-based, peer-to-peer network to share consumer information to help with ID verification on loan applications. ... Read full article

From the end of overdraft fees to the rise of banks that watch their customers' every move, there are several new banking trends on the horizon in 2019. ... Read full article

From the end of overdraft fees to the rise of banks that watch their customers' every move, there are several new banking trends on the horizon in 2019. ... Read full article

One bank is tracking the habits of its 4.4 million customers, giving them discounts on services if they visit the gym or get a flu shot. Other companies may soon follow suit. ... Read full article

Several fintechs are testing apps that let customers gain more say over how third parties use their data — and hope to one day be able to give them the power to revoke access to it entirely. ... Read full article