Artificial intelligence, machine learning and enhanced data sharing among lenders could go a long way toward spotting suspicious patterns in daily financial activity and bad actors, experts say.
Banks' fear of big penalties, the changing tactics of nimble criminals and a greater openness among regulators to new approaches are among the factors driving big investments.
Jelena McWilliams explains the agency's decision to enlist the help of tech innovators to modernize a reporting process that the coronavirus epidemic has exposed as outdated.
The agency’s advance notice of proposed rulemaking, which would require banks to evolve with technology, shows foresight that policymakers too often lack.
The acting head of the agency says it cannot continue relying on web-based exams put in place during the coronavirus and will start sending staff into banks.
One platform under development will let financial technology startups use a single portal to obtain licenses from multiple states, and another will let states collaborate on examinations.
Tech sprints that bring regulators together with bank officials, data scientists and software companies originated in the U.K. and have crossed the pond into the U.S.