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Let me refine my point. It would not be bad to expand the disclosures, so in that sense I agree with Frank. It is not going to be possible to do everything. I do not think that the FTC will take on, say, five different initiatives on this matter. You’re going to get one or two — so which should it be? And in that context, I don’t think disclosure will do much good. I’d choose other initiatives.
JJ
I looked at your survey and you are on some of the right points that wil more then likely be an issue concerning the Governments Fair Lending issues. However these questions are not getting to the real points I think will be their main issues.
The want more open transparancy between customer, dealer and lender. That is the reason I started building a software program several years ago becuase I saw this whole problem coming.
My company will address most of the issues I thnik will be coming up in the not to distant future:
Dealers, lenders, and other financial institutions are required or will be required to provide more transaction transparency, reporting, and accountability to the customer during the origination process.
Because of these new requirements balancing data security with business user needs for easy, anytime, anywhere information access is a challenge that many dealers and lenders face. E-net’s secure, compliant, SaaS, private cloud system links all parties and their information in a secure system while making lender and risk model decisions. This process enhances capabilities in data management, multiple party online communication, lender risk model analysis, risk management, storage, and compliance. Then it encripts and up loads the data to the proper parties
If you would like to have a demo you could see exactly what I am talking about. Maybe I’m wrong but this has been building for a long time and the writing on the wall his pretty clear to me.
Bill Fowler 360-437-5098