CFPB, Federal Agencies, State Agencies, and Attorneys General
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…
In this podcast, we review Madden, its implications and the OCC’s reaction, and discuss the proposals to undo Madden, including the agencies’ troublesome comments, remaining problems and what the agencies can do to fix them.
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The OCC has appealed to the Second Circuit from the district court’s final judgment entered in October 2019 in the lawsuit filed by the New York Department of Financial Services seeking to block the OCC’s issuance of special purpose national bank (SPNB) charters to fintech companies. In the final judgment, the district court denied the…
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 and FDIC issued proposed rules this week intended to eliminate the uncertainty created by the Second Circuit’s decision in Madden v. Midland Funding. In that decision, the Second Circuit held that a nonbank that purchased charged-off loans from a national bank could not charge the same rate of interest on the loan…
The Subcommittee on Consumer Protection and Financial Institutions of the House Financial Services Committee has scheduled a hearing entitled “An Examination of Regulators’ Efforts to Preserve and Promote Minority Depository Institutions” on November 20, 2019. In its first hearing on minority depository institutions, the Subcommittee examined the unique challenges facing MDIs and the…
In May 2019, a New York federal district court denied the OCC’s motion to dismiss a lawsuit filed by the New York Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) seeking to block the OCC’s issuance of special purpose national bank (SPNB) charters to fintech companies. In doing so, the court found that the term “business of banking”…
The constitutional question that the U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to decide in Seila Law is whether the CFPB’s single-director-removable-only-for-cause structure violates separation of powers. A ruling by the Supreme Court that separation of powers requires the President to be able to remove the CFPB Director without cause would not impact either the OCC or…
On October 10, 2019, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (Board), together with the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, adopted a final rule to revise the criteria for determining the applicability of regulatory capital and liquidity requirements for large U.S. banking organizations and the…
