Data transparency

Blockchain key to rethinking identity, avoiding next Equifax

09/13/17

The best solution to the current broken identity system is to flip the authentication process from third parties to the users themselves.

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Is AI a threat to fair lending?

09/07/17

It’s highly debatable whether the artificial intelligence engines that online lenders typically use, and that banks are just starting to deploy, are capable of making credit decisions without inadvertent prejudices.

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JPMorgan Chase and Finicity ink data-sharing agreement

07/11/17

The companies will use an application programming interface to let Chase customers send the data to the apps Finicity supports, including personal financial services apps and income verification tools.

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Don’t underestimate fintech’s value to older Americans

06/14/17

One might assume, wrongly, that the successful fintech entrepreneurs are millennials who are only creating lifestyle apps for their age bracket.

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‘Doesn’t Congress have more important things?’: Comments of the week

04/21/17

Readers sound off an attempt to block prepaid regulations, threats to consumer privacy, FSOC’s political bent, the proper use for SARs, and more.

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Congress killed consumer data privacy. Industry should revive it

04/17/17

With the reversal of Obama-era rules requiring user consent for data collection, it is more important than ever for U.S. banks and fintechs to demonstrate a robust and consistent approach to data privacy.

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