Trump admin to define banking privacy laws
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The administration is looking to review the section of the Dodd-Frank Act, a 2010 regulation designed to end taxpayer bailouts and protect consumers from unfair financial practices. A provision in the act required financial institutions to provide consumers with access to their financial data.
"The consumer, because they have access to their data, is able to unbundle products and use the information at their bank in order to get a mortgage or to get a line of credit or to transfer funds into a different account," Watkins said.
While financial tech companies increased in power and growth, data sharing became more common.
While attempting to help consumers, some advocates said the Biden administration's rules made regulations too narrow. The advocates also warned future regulations need to adequately protect consumers' financial data.
"What we want is a system where the information can be used well, it can be used to benefit all consumers, to grow competition and the like," said
Zywicki also warned against allowing large banks to act as monopolies with future rulemaking. He said banks could charge millions of dollars to financial tech companies like Plaid to grant access for customers to receive data.
"I think there is a role here for some sort of government control over price," Zywicki said. "If we don't make this information available at reasonable costs to consumers so that they can use it for their benefits, people are going to come up with workarounds that could very well be less secure."
Advocates said the decision for the
"If that definition is interpreted the way I think it will be, then we're going to end up with a very pro-consumer fintech and the banks are going to lose on most of these issues," Watkins said.



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