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On March 23, 2020, the FDIC’s Office of Minority and Women Inclusion (OMWI) announced that it will request 2019 diversity self-assessments from FDIC-regulated financial institutions.  The FDIC regulates insured state banks that are not members of the Federal Reserve System and insured state thrifts.  This year’s self-assessment application is presented on a new automated platform…

The FDIC has issued a proposed rule setting forth the conditions it would impose and the commitments it would require to approve a deposit insurance application from an industrial bank or industrial loan company (collectively, ILC) whose parent company is not subject to consolidated supervision by the Federal Reserve Board (FRB).  The proposal is a…

The OCC and FDIC announced yesterday that they have extended the 60-day comment period for their joint proposal to revise their regulations implementing the Community Reinvestment Act that was published in the Federal Register on January 8, 2020.  As extended by 30 days, the comment period ends on April 8, 2020.

The California Reinvestment Coalition,…

We are joined by Diego Zuluaga, a Cato Institute policy analyst, for a discussion of the proposed changes.  After reviewing the current regulatory framework, we examine the proposal’s new qualifying activities criteria and approach to “branchless banking” in determining assessment areas, respond to criticism of its approach to public projects, look at the small bank…

The House Financial Services Committee has announced that it will hold the following hearings this month:

  • On January 14, the Subcommittee on Consumer Protection and Financial Institutions will hold a hearing entitled, “The Community Reinvestment Act: Reviewing Who Wins and Who Loses with Comptroller Otting’s Proposal.”  (On January 29, from 12 p.m. to 1 p.m.

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While banks, community groups, and regulators all seem to agree that there is a need to reform the Community Reinvestment Act (the “CRA”), which was signed into law by Jimmy Carter back in 1977 and hasn’t received a major update since the Clinton administration, there is significant disagreement over whether or not the recently proposed…

The OCC and FDIC have issued a joint proposal to revise their regulations implementing the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA).  Although the Federal Reserve, OCC and FDIC, are the primary CRA regulators, the Fed did not join the proposal and presumably will issue a separate proposal.  Comments on the proposal are due by March 9, 2020.…

The OCC, Federal Reserve Board, FDIC, NCUA and CFPB have issued an “Interagency Statement on the Use of Alternative Data in Credit Underwriting.”

The statement sets forth the agencies’ recognition of the benefits of using alternative data (AD) in credit decisions.  For purposes of the statement, AD means “information not typically found in…