Community banks are struggling to stay ahead of the crooks as COVID-19 scams hit both the institution and its customers.
Data governance – the process by which banks ensure that the data they manage and ultimately include in their financial statements is accurate and trustworthy – has become increasingly critical as financial services institutions face immense regulatory scrutiny to prove the trustworthiness of those financial statements.
As we navigate the fallout of the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression, focus on the rapidly changing threats to information security, radically improve compliance infrastructures to support regulatory imperatives and work out new and sustainable business models, it almost seems unfair to throw another area of concern at banks.
As we move into the height of the 2012 presidential election cycle, issues of consumer protection in the financial services industry are front and center on the political agenda, as can be seen in the recent controversy involving the president’s recess appointment of Richard Cordray as director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB).