FFIEC: Federal Bank Regulatory Agencies Release 2021 Small Business, Small Farm and Community Development Lending Data
The federal bank regulatory agencies, as members of the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (FFIEC), today released data on small business, small farm, and community development lending during 2021. The Community Reinvestment Act regulations require the agencies to annually disclose these data. The FFIEC also prepared aggregate disclosure statements of small business and small farm…
OCC: First and Second Quarter 2023 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 2023. The OCC encourages public comment on the national banks and federal savings associations (collectively, banks) scheduled to be evaluated under the CRA. Public comments should…
CFPB: Supervisory Examinations Find Credit Reporting Failures, Junk Fees and Mishandling of COVID-19 Protections
Agency examiners find legal violations across consumer financial products and services Today, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) released a new Supervisory Highlights report on legal violations identified during the CFPB’s supervisory examinations in the first half of 2022. The report details key findings across consumer financial products and services, including how consumer reporting companies…
OCC: Bank Supervision Operating Plan for Fiscal Year 2023 Released
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) today released its bank supervision operating plan for fiscal year (FY) 2023. The plan provides the foundation for policy initiatives and for supervisory strategies as applied to individual national banks, federal savings associations, federal branches, federal agencies, and technology service providers. The OCC staff uses this…
CFPB: Violations of Federal Law by Student Loan Services and University-Owned Lenders Found
Blanket withholding of academic transcripts to pressure borrowers to pay cited as unlawful Today, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) released a special edition of Supervisory Highlights on recent examination findings covering the practices of student loan servicers, and schools that lend to students directly. The exams found that these schools had improper blanket policies of withholding…