Data sharing

Policymakers have called for streamlined disclosures for customers granting third parties access to their financial account data. They don’t have to look far for a potential solution.

Policymakers have called for streamlined disclosures for customers granting third parties access to their financial account data. They don’t have to look far for a potential solution.

Netspend customers kept from accessing paychecks; Sen. Elizabeth Warren rebukes Comerica over fraud in benefits program; FDIC poised to revamp deposit rules (about time, say banks); and more from this week's most-read stories.

A recent study concluded there are first-mover benefits for banks that embrace open banking. But many executives see its risks instead.

Wells Fargo, Bank of America, Citigroup and other banks have joined forces with fintechs and data aggregators to create the Financial Data Exchange, which aims to resolve the fight over sharing customer information.

Trellance has acquired IronSafe, which provides data analytics to more than 2,300 credit unions.

Two of the credit union movement's biggest names are teaming up to help CUs better tackle big data.

Consumers generally approve of GDPR’s goals of tightening data-protection and consumer privacy, and more than half would consider fleeing to another provider if they suspected corporations were unclear in their communications or intentions about gathering data.

Capital One's dispute with Plaid raised questions about the ability of banks and aggregators to work together. But the end of that fight, and Capital One's deal with Finicity, show common ground can be reached — eventually.

Facebook is seeking customer data from big banks. Executives say it's not clear what the benefit would be, but the drawbacks are easy to tally.