Data and information management

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.

As it attempts to craft policy on access to consumers’ financial account information, the agency is wading into a battle between those who want data to flow more freely and those who prioritize security.

The recent decrease in the rate at which current loans became impaired could further encourage the cautious return of the non-QM market currently underway.

The former SoFi chief’s latest startup, Figure, has created what it says is a transparent marketplace for buying and selling assets. Some banks have embraced the technology, but other blockchain projects have stalled because lenders don't want rivals to see their data.

The agency plans to issue an advance notice of proposed rulemaking dealing with efforts by fintechs and data aggregators to leverage a consumer's bank account information.

The heads of the two companies explain how the deal came about, what hurdles they face and how they plan to mash up their very different operations.

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell told senators that the central bank is willing to explore a credit-sensitive interest benchmark in addition to the secured overnight financing rate, which some banks say could cause problems during economic stress.

Financial regulators’ statement cautiously encouraging lenders to go beyond traditional underwriting in their lending decisions is a big step forward for the use of alternative data and artificial intelligence, bankers say.

The agency’s semiannual report warned institutions to be mindful of operational risks from the innovation in core banking systems, and detailed supervisory steps to monitor the adoption of a new reference rate.

A report from the Financial Stability Oversight Council cited a bigger share of originations and servicing by nonbanks as a potential vulnerability in the financial system.

Banks like RBC and JPMorgan Chase can now more easily draw real-time FactSet data feeds into applications.

At a forum convened by the CFPB, several bank and fintech executives argued that long-delayed rules required under the Dodd-Frank Act can help fight discrimination and shine a light on unsavory practices in the market for small-business credit.