Regtech officials anticipate congressional action soon on bipartisan legislation, the Financial Transparency Act, which Nick Hart, CEO of The Data Coalition, says will be a “game changer” and “really sets the stage for standardizing financial reporting across eight federal agencies.”
Hart made his comment at the Regtech Data Summit, which was held in New York on Tuesday.
The Financial Transparency Act is “not about new data collection; it’s really just about better using the data that we’re already collecting and changing the processes and strategies to make those data useful,” Hart said in his opening remarks.
Hart told ThinkAdvisor in a separate email message that he expects to see “a closely similar version of the Financial Transparency Act reintroduced in Congress early this summer.”
The Data Coalition anticipates the bill “will be favorably received and advanced by the House Financial Services Committee in a bipartisan fashion,” he said.
In the last Congress, the Financial Transparency Act, H.R. 1530, was supported by a bipartisan group of 33 cosponsors, Hart added.