Contact: Laine Williams, (202) 897-4757, lwilliams@allonadvocacy.com
March 15, 2024 Washington, DC – The Financial Data and Technology Association of North America (FDATA) today sent a letter to Wyoming Governor Mark Gordon and Wyoming legislators including Representative Cyrus Western, Representative Daniel Singh, Representative Mike Yin, Senator Alfie Ellis, Senator Tara Nethercott, and Senator Chris Rothfuss, highlighting concerns about a Wyoming bill (HB 145) that was recently enacted into law and offering to provide input into Wyoming’s open banking regulations and financial innovation agenda.
As a leading advocate for consumer-permissioned, third-party access to financial data globally, our letter underscored the importance of aligning Wyoming’s open banking framework with global best practices, which provide complete control to consumers and small businesses over what data they decide to share with third parties. We pointed out that HB 145 deviates from this important open banking tenet.
As the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau moves to implement a federal open banking framework later through rulemaking later this year, we offered to engage in further discussions with Governor Gordon and the legislators to explore solutions that would make Wyoming’s open banking regulations a model for consumer empowerment and market competitiveness.
A full copy of the letter is available here.
