Podcasts
Intro – FinRegLab’s Cash Flow in Underwriting Experiment
FinRegLab CEO Melissa Koide provides an overview of our research project and podcast series.
Melissa Koide
Prior to establishing FinRegLab, Melissa served as the U.S. Treasury Department’s Deputy Assistant Secretary for Consumer Policy. In that role, Melissa helped to build the first government offered preretirement savings product, the myRA. She also established the $5 million Innovation Fund to support research and strategies to improve consumers’ financial health and their access to safe and affordable financial products and services. Melissa has testified before the Senate Banking and House Financial Services Committees, and she has spoken extensively to policy, industry, and consumer advocacy audiences. She is also a member of the New York State Department of Financial Services’ Financial Innovation Advisory Board.
Related Publications
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Consumer Financial Data: Legal and Regulatory Landscape
FinRegLab partnered with the Financial Health Network, Flourish Ventures, and Mitchell Sandler to provide a working paper summarizing the current U.S. federal legal framework governing consumer financial data with the goal of laying a foundation for future policy analyses and discussions.
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Data diversification in Credit Underwriting
This update catalogues recent initiatives involving the use of non-traditional credit data, including cash-flow information. It considers how dramatic shifts in economic conditions due to the Covid-19 pandemic and mass movements for racial justice have increased incentives to adopt new data sources and models, but also created new market and policy challenges.
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The Use of Cash-Flow Data in Underwriting Credit: Market Context & Policy Analysis
This report provides a detailed snapshot of the use of cash-flow data in U.S. consumer lending and the development of the system for transferring data between firms, in addition to analyzing policy and regulatory issues raised by cash-flow underwriting in both consumer and small business credit markets.
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The Use Of Cash-Flow Data In Underwriting Credit: Policy Overview
This overview highlights key themes from our longer market context and policy analysis, including outlining options for action by industry, regulators, and Congress.
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The Use Of Cash-Flow Data In Underwriting Credit: Small Business Spotlight
This report details the evolution of the use of cash-flow data in small business lending. It explains the reasons why electronic cash-flow data may be particularly useful in the small business context, presents evidence of its increasing use by a diverse range of incumbents and new entrants, and notes market and policy issues that may…
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The Use of Cash-Flow Data in Underwriting Credit
Records from consumers’ deposit and card accounts and from small businesses’ accounting software can provide a relatively detailed and comprehensive picture of how applicants manage their finances on an ongoing basis. FinRegLab conducted an empirical assessment of the data’s benefits and risks, as well as market and policy analyses of the challenges to its wider… Learn More
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