Data and information management

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau said a company doesn't need to experience a data breach for the agency to consider taking action.

Pingora Loan Servicing still hasn’t disclosed the full scope of last fall’s hack impacting at least 169,000 customers across four states.

When the U.S. announced sanctions against Russia two weeks ago, many feared U.S. banks would bear the brunt of a payback cyberattack. Experts disagree on why that hasn't happened and whether the danger has passed.

The bill, part of the omnibus spending package, would force banks and other critical infrastructure providers to tell the government right away when they’ve been breached.

The platform enables structuring of the entire transaction, including covenant tests and trigger levels, and the distribution of interest and principal cash flows, but professionals need more time to become comfortable with DLT.

Sequoia Mortgage Trust is among the first to include a distributed ledger agent in its reporting processes.

Infrastructure will command most of lawmakers’ attention, but expect banks to keep pushing for bills that would ease the transition away from a key benchmark rate and help them serve legal cannabis businesses.

Some say Equifax, Experian and TransUnion are too slow to investigate grievances, prompting more complaints to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. But the big three say other forces are at work.

DataBank, sponsored by an affiliate of Colony Capital, is pooling ownership and leasehold stakes in 15 data centers in six cities, including the Salt Lake City market that is in high demand with West Coast companies diversifying and expanding data-center operations.

S&P Global has agreed to buy IHS Markit for about $39 billion in stock, a deal that accelerates the wave of consolidation among the finance industry's biggest data providers.