The Use Of Cash-Flow Data In Underwriting Credit: Policy Overview

Report Summary

This overview highlights key themes from our longer market context and policy analysis, including outlining options for action by industry, regulators, and Congress.

Acknowledgments

This Policy Overview and FinRegLab’s underlying Report, The Use of Cash-Flow Data in Underwriting Credit: Market Context & Policy Analysis, were made possible through founding support from Flourish/Omidyar Network. Additional support was provided by the Milken Institute, which enabled FinRegLab to evaluate cash-flow data in small business credit underwriting. Detailed information on our funders can be found on the inside back cover.

We would like to extend a special note of appreciation for their leadership and facilitation of FinRegLab’s policy working groups to Melanie Brody, Mayer Brown; Mark Schultz, Capital One; P-R Stark, Oliver Wyman; and Corey Stone, Financial Health Network. Thanks also to the Fintech Team at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco for co-hosting a symposium entitled “The Role of Consumers in the Data Ecosystem.”

FinRegLab would also like to recognize the individuals and organizations who participated in the policy working groups as listed in Appendix A in the Market Context & Policy Analysis report, the participants of the Data Ecosystem symposium, and stakeholders who participated in interviews.

We are particularly grateful to Marsha Courchane and Arthur Baines, Charles River Associates, for the role they played in designing and executing the empirical research analysis. We are also grateful to Thomas P. Brown and Stephen J. Bandrowsky, Paul Hastings, for legal assistance throughout the course of the research process.

We would also like to thank the following individuals who provided feedback on this report. They include:

We would also like to acknowledge the FinRegLab team who worked on the research, convenings, and reports. They include:

With Support From

Flourish Ventures

Flourish, a venture of the Omidyar Group, has provided operating support to FinRegLab since its inception. Flourish is an evergreen fund investing in entrepreneurs whose innovations help people achieve financial health and prosperity. Established in 2019, Flourish is funded by Pam and Pierre Omidyar. Pierre is the founder of eBay. Managed by a global team, Flourish makes impact-oriented investments in challenger banks, personal finance, insurtech, regtech, and other technologies that empower people and foster a fairer, more inclusive economy.

Milken Institute

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