How biometric authentication works in regulated finance: verification modes, trait selection factors, NIST guidance, and what financial examiners tend to ask.
A federal court has stayed the tiered compliance dates for the CFPB's open-banking data-access rule while the bureau reconsiders its fee, privacy, and representative-authorization provisions.
The standards landed in August 2024; the threat is harvest-now-decrypt-later; and the migration runs on a cryptography inventory most institutions have not finished.
The authorization to share data is now a consumer right with a lifecycle — and the artifact that proves its history is the exam exhibit nobody built by accident.