CRA Newswire

FDIC: Resource Guide Highlights Collaborative Opportunities with Minority Depository Institutions

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) today issued a resource guide that underscores ways insured depository institutions, including community banks, can partner with minority depository institutions (MDIs) to the benefit of all institutions involved, as well as the communities they serve. The resource guide also notes that banks may realize business and regulatory benefits from…

FEMA: Major Disaster Declaration Approved for Pueblo of Acoma

The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) announced today that federal disaster assistance has been made available for the Pueblo of Acoma to supplement tribal recovery efforts in the areas affected by severe storms and flooding from October 4 to October 6, 2017. Federal funding is available to the Pueblo of Acoma and certain private nonprofit…

FEMA: Major Disaster Declaration Approved for Alaska

The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) announced today that federal disaster assistance has been made available to the state of Alaska to supplement state and local recovery efforts in the areas affected by a severe storm from September 28 to September 30, 2017. Federal funding is available to state and eligible local governments and certain…

FEMA: Federal Aid Programs for the State of Alaska

Following is a summary of key federal disaster aid programs that can be made available as needed and warranted under President Donald J. Trump’s disaster declaration issued for the state of Alaska. Assistance for the State and affected Local Governments Can Include as Required: Payment of not less than 75 percent of the eligible costs…

FHFA: House Price Index Up 0.5 Percent in October 2017

U.S. house prices rose in October, up 0.5 percent from the previous month, according to the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) seasonally adjusted monthly House Price Index (HPI). The previously reported 0.3 percent increase in September was revised upward to 0.5 percent. The FHFA monthly HPI is calculated using home sales price information from mortgages…

FHFA: Third Quarter 2017 Foreclosure Prevention Report Shows Foreclosure Preventions Top 3.9 Million

Hurricanes Impact Delinquency Rate The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) today released its third quarter Foreclosure Prevention Report, which shows that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (the Enterprises) completed 41,465 foreclosure prevention actions in the third quarter of 2017, bringing the total number of troubled homeowners helped to 3,972,689 since the start of the conservatorships…

FHFA: 2018 Scorecard Released for Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and Common Securitization Solutions

The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) today released the 2018 Scorecard outlining specific conservatorship priorities for Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac (the Enterprises), and their joint venture, Common Securitization Solutions, LLC (CSS).  These goals include: Maintain, in a safe and sound manner, credit availability and foreclosure prevention activities for new and refinanced mortgages to foster liquid,…

Federal Reserve: Expectations for Supervised Institutions Regarding Amended Regulation C

Expectations for Supervised Institutions Regarding Amended Regulation C Applicability to Community Banking Organizations: This guidance applies to all institutions supervised by the Federal Reserve, including those with total consolidated assets of $10 billion or less. This letter provides guidance on the Federal Reserve Board’s supervisory expectations in connection with early examinations of Board-supervised institutions for…

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…

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…