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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…

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…

CFPB: Public Statement on Home Mortgage Disclosure Act Compliance

Bureau Does Not Intend to Assess Penalties for Errors in Data Collected in 2018, and Plans to Reconsider Aspects of Mortgage Data Rule The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) today issued a public statement announcing that the Bureau does not intend to require data resubmission unless data errors are material or assess penalties with respect…

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…

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…

FHFA: Progress Update on the Single Security Initiative and Common Securitization Platform

The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) today published An Update on Implementation of the Single Security Initiative and the Common Securitization Platform detailing progress toward further implementation of the Common Securitization Platform (CSP) and launch of a single, common security called the Uniform Mortgage-Backed Security (UMBS). As announced previously, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (the…

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…

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…