Data quality

In a survey, bankers conceded they may not be doing enough to avoid the mistakes social media giants made in the use of unverified data.

A whistleblower charges that during the Obama administration, Treasury's Office of Financial Research manipulated information that it provided during a review by the Governmental Accountability Office.

As banks press for deregulation, the debate over whether high bank capital standards are inhibiting loan growth has taken center stage.

MIT professor Maria Loumioti has studied loans made strictly using hard data and loans where a loan officer clearly was influenced by personal connections or feelings about a borrower. The results shed light on the value and limitations of "soft" information.

The credit bureaus will change the way they include information about tax liens and civil judgments in credit reports. This could spur lenders' use of alternative credit data.