Compliance Monthly

New blog series on regulatory affairs

Tipping the Seesaw: How Financial Deregulation Opens the Door to Fraud

The past year has brought a wave of federal deregulation across financial services. We have seen a defanged and depopulated Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), an executive order curbing state regulation of AI, and the ending of fair lending disparate impact enforcement. This regulatory retreat likely has lowered compliance costs, but it also has increased

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Fair Lending is Dead, Long Live Fair Lending

 “Le roi est mort, vive le roi!”  The peers of medieval France recited this proclamation to simultaneously acknowledge the death of a king and the continuation of the monarchy. This seemingly contradictory quotation aptly describes my feeling as a fintech compliance practitioner for the current state of fair lending. Ostensibly, recent Federal actions suggest dramatic changes

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Digital Footprints: How Lenders Can Use Real-World Data to Combat Document Fraud

Every couple of weeks, I see a photo of a fake receipt or paystub flash across my LinkedIn feed. The document looks authentic, complete with coffee stains, weathered texture, and creases. These synthetic documents should spark lender concern. Thousands of paystub generation sites are now available on the Internet. Fraudsters can now quickly generate a

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Tips for Auto Industry Stakeholders to Navigate AI Hallucinations

AI tools present exhilarating opportunities for the auto industry. Lenders and retailers are leveraging AI to great effect: streamlining operations, personalizing customer experiences, and making data driven decisions. But, if you asked many auto execs, there is one issue that holds them back – fear of AI hallucinations. AI hallucinations refer to the tendency of

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How a Humanities Degree Can Give You an Edge in the AI Job Market

Thanks to the rapid business adoption of large language models (LLMs), a humanities degree could be your competitive edge for future AI jobs. Yes, your eyes don’t deceive you. If you studied English literature, medieval studies, anthropology, or political science in college, take heart. Your day in the tech spotlight is coming! Historically, the natural

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How Compliance Can Keep Pace with the Velocity of AI Innovation

AI is revolutionizing how fast companies are building products – and compliance is at risk of being left behind. Last week, a senior product manager Slacked me: “With how fast this environment is changing, being able to quickly test new [stuff] is proving to be super important. Almost feels like table stakes” For tech product teams,

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The CFPB is on Life Support, But Compliance Shouldn’t Be

Over the past few weeks, the Trump administration has imposed deep cuts at federal financial regulators. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is on life-support with its staff locked out of their headquarters, supervisory exams on hold, and enforcement cases being dropped. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation fired 700 employees on the last day of

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The Looming Threat of Deepfakes: A New Era of Financial Fraud

I’ve written recently about how AI can empower compliance teams to do their work.The flip-side is that fraudsters can also leverage AI. In an ominous development, fraudsters are now using generative AI techniques including deepfakes, short for “deep learning fakes,” to create counterfeit documents, from bank statements to driver’s licenses to passports. Generative AI techniques

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It’s Time to Look Back: How AI Document Intelligence Transforms Legacy Loan Data for Lenders

December is the month many of us spend time taking stock of the year that was. Newspapers and websites tout “Year in Review” stories and Top Ten lists of favorite movies and books. Magazines announce “People of the Year” or the year’s biggest trends. In financial services,  December is also when lenders using AI document

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