Catherine Judge

Overview

Catherine Judge is the Columbia law professor quoted in the Marketplace Tech episode on AI use in banking.

Current Profile

Judge contributes the regulator-side third-party software argument. In the source, she says bank regulators should be able to understand the services third-party providers supply and monitor their risks more directly, rather than leaving all model-risk visibility inside individual banks.

Key Characteristics

• Frames banking AI risk as a vendor-oversight problem as well as a bank-compliance problem.
• Emphasizes regulator access to understanding third-party services.
• Shifts some attention from individual-bank responsibility toward direct software-provider monitoring.

Evidence

• Vendor oversight: AI in banking: the good, the bad, and the efficient quotes Judge on regulators taking more responsibility for third-party software oversight.
• Institutional context: AI in banking: the good, the bad, and the efficient identifies her as a Columbia law professor.

Qualifications

The source does not present a detailed legal proposal, statutory mechanism, or regulator implementation plan for direct vendor monitoring.

What Changed

• Added Judge as the source’s regulatory voice for third-party AI vendor oversight in banking.

Relationships

• Columbia University - institutional affiliation named in the source.
• Third-Party AI Vendor Oversight - regulatory concept she develops in the episode.
• AI Governance And Compliance - broader AI governance frame her argument extends.
• Community Bank AI Adoption - bank-adoption context in which her vendor concern appears.