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Last Friday, I attended a private session on FinTech at the White House – alongside a few others in the financial services ecosystem – Founders, Investors, Academics, a handful of Financial institutions and Regulators. Titled “The White House FinTech Summit” – the intent was to promote a discussion, sans media, on what could be done better to progress innovation in financial services, as well as communicate the administration’s own perspective on topics such as Financial inclusion, Regulatory arbitrage, Cyber Security, and Big Data. I am only writing down what resonated most, with me – so this isn’t meant to be a complete account of the half day event. Startups and Regulation: The need for a radically simpler engagement model I wasn’t surprised that this view was articulated half an hour into the summit – by Bruce Wallace of SVB, on a panel hosted by Secretary Penny Pritzker of the US Department of Commerce. Asked what the Govt role in fostering an environment for innovation, should be: Bruce summarized it best (and I am paraphrasing): “A FinTech startup has only a limited amount of time and scope to focus on the myriad state and federal agencies and regulators on understanding and interpreting policy. We need a radically simpler and transparent engagement model.” On this topic of “what should we be doing more to encourage startups to come to US” I would have liked Stripe to chime in here, with what they are likely to have learned from launching Atlas – I call it “Company in a Box” – which is a suite of services including banking and payment processing to enable entrepreneurs to maintain a presence in the US and sell to the US consumer. Regulatory Sandbox to Test, Proves and if need be – Fail Unsurprisingly, the incumbents echoed much of the same view, and Adam Carson of Chase suggested that “the regulatory climate is making it hard for FIs to experiment, collaborate – and where applicable, fail quickly. And thus, we should be advocating for a sandbox of sorts – that allows institutions to not have to be burdened so much by regulation as they attempt to test and learn – before worrying about scale and burdensome regulation”. Adam is absolutely right in that consumers no longer compare their banking experience on Chase’s platform to that of Capital One or Citi or BofA – they compare those digital experiences to that on Facebook, Amazon, Google, Apple, and Uber. I have written before on the same topic (see below): “As banking moves from branch to app – from a wholly owned and curated experience inside a branch – TO – an app that vies for space in a “democratized” and crowded home screen, banks must realize that they no longer own the entire canvas. Instead they merely follow the design principles set by the most-used apps on our phones. I no longer compare my bank app with that of another bank, I compare it against the services I use often – Facebook, Twitter, Gmail, Apple Pay, Uber etc. And if who you compete with on this platform has been redrawn to include brands who have nothing to do with managing money – then you have to try as hard not to be boxed in as a bank. Having both the talent required to design these new experiences, and the capital to acquire them will only serve to further differentiate banks that have this focus as a priority vs those who will in the end get wrapped.” Risk of Algorithmic bias as FinTech ingests alternative data Representatives from a couple of agencies – were a bit more cautionary in their approach to the topic of FinTech, scaling distribution and the focus around Big data, with Urban affairs asking FinTech firms to be cognizant of algorithmic bias in their models – because the data that drives decisions could be slanted or skewed towards a particular demographic – and used civil rights as an example. Playing fast and loose with consumer data Anjan Mukherjee of Treasury focused on Cybersecurity – and Chris Carroll (from John Hopkins) warned of a potential “Asteroid impact” manifesting in a data breach involving one or more FinTech firms – which could cause an inexorable exodus of trust away from the upstarts towards the incumbents. I understand the sentiment, and we have had a couple of examples where a couple of the startups have invited criticism around data handling and security – and this topic invites further scrutiny in light of EU PSD2 as well as the banking incumbents clamping down on access to customer account data. There is much agreement that screen scraping and sharing customer credentials with personal finance apps and aggregators is inadvisable – but to not consider that these rather poor approaches emerged only in the absence of a genuine, bank approved framework or API, would be a missed opportunity to understand why these exist in the first place. We do need secure methods for consumers to transfer customer data to 3rd party platforms or aggregators to extract more value out of the interactions with their bank. And we need guidelines to make it easy and transparent – so that consumers can make an informed decision after having considered the apparent cost and benefits involved. I hope we will sort this out soon – between Banks, Startups, Consumer Advocates and Regulators – not just because a systems breach is inevitable that will sweep up millions of unsafely stored consumer banking credentials – but the opportunity to create standards, improve security and create a level playing field for all will be the only desirable outcome to discussions such as the one on last Friday. Much thanks to Adrienne Harris at the White House, for hosting this event and inviting us to join this debate.

Part four in our series on Insights from Vision 2016 fraud and identity track It was a true honor to present alongside Experian fraud consultant Chris Danese and Barbara Simcox of Turnkey Risk Solutions in the synthetic and first-party fraud session at Vision 2016. Chris and Barbara, two individuals who have been fighting fraud for more than 25 years, kicked off the session with their definition of first-party versus third-party fraud trends and shared an actual case study of a first-party fraud scheme. The combination of the qualitative case study overlaid with quantitative data mining and link analysis debunked many myths surrounding the identification of first-party fraud and emphasized best practices for confidently differentiating first-party, first-pay-default and synthetic fraud schemes. Following these two passionate fraud fighters was a bit intimidating, but I was excited to discuss the different attributes included in first-party fraud models and how they can be impacted by the types of data going into the specific model. There were two big “takeaways” from this session for me and many others in the room. First, it is essential to use the correct analytical tools to find and manage true first-party fraud risk successfully. Using a credit score to identify true fraud risk categorically underperforms. BustOut ScoreSM or other fraud risk scores have a much higher ability to assess true fraud risk. Second is the need to for a uniform first-party fraud bust-out definition so information can be better shared. By the end of the session, I was struck by how much diversity there is among institutions and their approach to combating fraud. From capturing losses to working cases, the approaches were as unique as the individuals in attendance This session was both educational and inspirational. I am optimistic about the future and look forward to seeing how our clients continue to fight first-party fraud.

On June 2, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) proposed a rule aimed at “payday lending” that will apply to virtually all lenders, with request for comments by Sept. 14. Here is a summary of the basic provisions of the proposed rule. However, with comments, the proposal is more than 1,300 pages in length, and the proposed rule and examples are more than 200 pages long. It is necessary to review the details of the proposed rule to understand its potential impact on your products and processes fully. You may wish to review your current and future offerings with your institution’s counsel and compliance officer to determine the potential impact if major provisions of this proposed rule are finalized by the CFPB. Coverage The proposal generally would cover two categories of loans. First, the proposal generally would cover loans with a term of 45 days or less. Second, the proposal generally would cover loans with a term greater than 45 days, provided that they have an all-in annual percentage rate greater than 36 percent and either are repaid directly from the consumer’s account or income or are secured by the consumer’s vehicle. Ability to repay For both categories of covered loans, the proposal would identify it as an abusive and unfair practice for a lender to make a covered loan without reasonably determining that the consumer has the ability to repay the loan. Or if the lender does not determine if the consumer can make payments due, as well as meet major financial obligations and basic living expenses during and for 30 days after repayment. Lenders would be required to verify the amount of income that a consumer receives, after taxes, from employment, government benefits or other sources. In addition, lenders would be required to check a consumer’s credit report to verify the amount of outstanding loans and required payments. “Safe Harbor” The proposed rule would provide lenders with options to make covered loans without satisfying the ability-to-repay and payment notice requirements, if those loans meet certain conditions. The first option would be offering loans that generally meet the parameters of the National Credit Union Administration “payday alternative loans” program, where interest rates are capped at 28 percent and the application fee is no more than $20. The other option would be offering loans that are payable in roughly equal payments with terms not to exceed two years and with an all-in cost of 36 percent or less, not including a reasonable origination fee, so long as the lender’s projected default rate on these loans is 5 percent or less. The lender would have to refund the origination fees any year that the default rate exceeds 5 percent. Lenders would be limited as to how many of either type of loan they could make per consumer per year. Outstanding loans The proposal also would impose certain restrictions on making covered loans when a consumer has — or recently had — certain outstanding loans. These provisions are extensive and differ between short- and long-term loans. For example: Payday and single-payment auto title: If a borrower seeks to roll over a loan or returns within 30 days after paying off a previous short-term debt, the lender would be restricted from offering a similar loan. Lenders could only offer a similar short-term loan if a borrower demonstrated that their financial situation during the term of the new loan would be materially improved relative to what it was since the prior loan was made. The same test would apply if the consumer sought a third loan. Even if a borrower’s finances improved enough for a lender to justify making a second and third loan, loans would be capped at three in succession followed by a mandatory 30-day cooling-off period. High-cost installment loans: For consumers struggling to make payments under either a payday installment or auto title installment loan, lenders could not refinance the loan into a loan with similar payments. This is unless a borrower demonstrated that their financial situation during the term of the new loan would be materially improved relative to what it was during the prior 30 days. The lender could offer to refinance if that would result in substantially smaller payments or would substantially lower the total cost of the consumer’s credit. Payments Furthermore, it would be defined as an unfair and abusive practice to attempt to withdraw payment from a consumer’s account for a covered loan after two consecutive payment attempts have failed, unless the lender obtains the consumer’s new and specific authorization to make further withdrawals from the account. The proposal would require lenders to provide certain notices to the consumer before attempting to withdraw payment for a covered loan from the consumer’s account unless exempt under one of the “safe harbor” options. Registered information systems Finally, the proposed rule would require lenders to use credit reporting systems to report and obtain information about loans made under the full-payment test or the principal payoff option. These systems would be considered consumer reporting companies, subject to applicable federal laws and registered with the CFPB. Lenders would be required to report basic loan information and updates to that information. The proposed regulation may be found here.
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