Robert Kaplan

Will lower rates bring tougher regulation?; HELOC-backeds return

06/25/19

Dallas Fed chief says lower interest rates may require stricter rules to ward off riskier lending; after financial crisis, debt backed by HELOCs disappeared.

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No-frills accounts prove popular; lenders use AI to parse credit

01/04/19

The accounts — which eschew paper checks and overdraft protection — appeal beyond the low-income customers they were intended for; lenders are embracing artificial intelligence systems to analyze more data to determine creditworthiness.

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Two big banks seek to speed mortgages; Stress test backer

08/25/17

U.S. Bank and Wells Fargo to use Blend software to speed up mortgage origination processes; Robert Kaplan wants to keep stress tests on big banks.

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10 questions for Dallas Fed President Robert Kaplan

08/15/17

The breadth and pace of change across banking and the rest of the business world is rapidly escalating, posing challenges for financial institutions and the economy alike, according to Robert Kaplan, the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas.

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