Eighteen banks’ Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) ratings from the national bank regulator became public in March, and of those, eight were ratings of “outstanding” and 10 were “satisfactory,” the agency said. The banks’ CRA evaluation [...]
Large financial institutions will no longer have to deal with principles for climate-related financial risk management under a decision issued Monday by the national bank regulator. The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) [...]
Loan-level information for 2024 filed by banks but edited to protect consumer privacy was released Monday by the federal consumer financial protection agency, as required by law. The data, collected under the Home Mortgage Disclosure [...]
Six former credit union employees, two of them former CEOs, were barred in March from any future involvement in the affairs of any federally insured financial institution, the National Credit Union Administration said Monday. In [...]
The regulation implementing anti-redlining laws will change for a third time in the last six years, according to the federal banking regulators who have agreed to rescind the latest changes adopted in 2023, the agencies [...]
Penalties or fines related to the payment withdrawal and payment disclosure provisions of the agency ‘s 2017 payday rule will not be an enforcement or supervision priority of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) beginning [...]
Banks may “engage in permissible crypto-related activities” without receiving prior approval from the federal bank deposit insurance agency, it said in a financial institution letter (FIL) issued Friday. The guidance provided by the Federal Deposit [...]
Calling it a “harassment saga,” the consumer financial protection agency moved March 26 to vacate a 2024 settlement reached between it and a firm it previously alleged had violated the Equal Credit Opportunity Act and [...]
The national banking regulator’s financial inclusion program – dubbed Project REACh (Roundtable for Economic Access and Change) – is now under the umbrella of the Office of External Relationships and Strategic Partnerships, the agency’s acting [...]
A small federal credit union that was placed into conservatorship in January 2023, and which apparently has a new management team in place, has been returned to the control of its members, its federal regulator [...]