Community Banks

FDIC: Home Mortgage Disclosure Act Statement on Institutions’ Good Faith Compliance Efforts

Printable Format: FIL-63-2017 – PDF (PDF Help) Summary: The FDIC is issuing a statement regarding the evaluation of financial institutions’ compliance with the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA), implemented by Regulation C. Specifically, for HMDA data collected in 2018 and reported in 2019, the FDIC does not intend to require data resubmission unless data errors…

December 21, 2017 Industry News

Interagency Guidance: 2018 Annual CRA Asset-Size Threshold Adjustments Released

FDIC Release Federal Reserve Release OCC Release The federal bank regulatory agencies today announced the annual adjustment to the asset-size thresholds used to define small bank, small savings association, intermediate small bank, and intermediate small savings association under the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) regulations. The annual adjustments are required by the CRA rules. Financial institutions…

December 21, 2017 Regulatory Updates

FDIC: List of Banks Examined for CRA Compliance Issued

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) today issued its list of state nonmember banks recently evaluated for compliance with the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA). The list covers evaluation ratings that the FDIC assigned to institutions in September 2017. The CRA is a 1977 law intended to encourage insured banks and thrifts to meet local credit…

December 5, 2017 CRA Examinations

OCC: CRA Evaluations for 29 National Banks and Federal Savings Associations Released

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) today released a list of Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) performance evaluations that became public during the period of November 1, 2017 through November 30, 2017.  The list contains only national banks, federal savings associations, and insured federal branches of foreign banks that have received ratings.  The…

December 5, 2017 CRA Examinations

Federal Reserve: FEDS | Housing Bust, Bank Lending & Employment: Evidence from Multimarket Banks

Housing Bust, Bank Lending & Employment: Evidence from Multimarket Banks (PDF) David P. Glancy Abstract: I use geographic variation in bank lending to study how bank real estate losses impacted the supply of credit and employment during the Great Recession. Banks exposed to distressed housing markets cut mortgage and small business lending relative to other…

December 1, 2017 Data & Trends

FDIC: CRA Examination Schedules for First and Second Quarter 2018 Issued

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) today issued the lists of institutions scheduled for a Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) examination during the first and second quarters of 2018. CRA regulations require each federal bank and thrift regulator to publish its quarterly CRA examination schedule at least 30 days before the beginning of each quarter. The…

November 30, 2017 CRA Examinations

OCC: First and Second Quarter 2018 CRA Evaluation Schedule Issued

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) today released its schedule of Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) evaluations to be conducted in the first and second quarters of 2018. The OCC encourages public comment on the national banks and federal savings associations scheduled to be evaluated under the CRA, and suggests that comments be…

November 28, 2017 CRA Examinations

CDFI Fund: FY 2017 Round BEA Program Application Submission Deadline Extended to December 14th

On September 29, 2017, the Community Development Financial Institutions Fund (CDFI Fund) announced in a Notice of Funds Availability (NOFA) for the Bank Enterprise Award Program (BEA Program) that the deadline for submitting the FY 2017 BEA Program Application (Application) via the CDFI Fund’s Award Management Information System (AMIS) was 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time on…

November 27, 2017 Industry News

Federal Reserve: CRA Examination Schedule for First and Second Quarter 2018 Released

The Federal Reserve has released the CRA examination schedules for the first two quarters of 2018: First Quarter 2018 Boston Bank name City State MANSFIELD CO-OP BK MANSFIELD MA WASHINGTON SVG BK LOWELL MA New York Bank name City State AMBOY BK OLD BRIDGE NJ BANK OF CATTARAUGUS CATTARAUGUS NY FIELDPOINT PRIV B&TC GREENWICH CT…

November 27, 2017 CRA Examinations

CFPB: Five Ways Banks and Lenders Work with People Who Speak or Understand Limited English

By Alice Chang and Dubis Correal and Holly Zaharchuk   More than one out of every 12 people over the age of five in the U.S. are limited English proficient (LEP), meaning that they speak English less than very well, according to the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2016 American Community Survey One-Year Estimates. LEP consumers may…

November 22, 2017 Industry News