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[ November 15, 2024 ] Delinquency rates on rise for CRE, some consumer loans, Fed supervision report finds The Fed
[ November 15, 2024 ] CLF’s 2025-26 budget, share insurance fund update slated next Thursday NCUA
[ November 15, 2024 ] Farmer Mac stock a permissible investment for some FCUs, agency opinion states NCUA
[ November 14, 2024 ] Fed’s Kugler becomes latest board member to advocate for continued agency independence The Fed
[ November 14, 2024 ] VA firm must pay $3 million for taking funds, blocking accounts to pay for prisoner basic needs CFPB

Highest monthly consumer complaint volumes ever (March, April) cited by CFPB director; mortgages, credit cards top those related to COVID-19

May 12, 2020 0

The director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) on Tuesday told real estate industry and financial literacy meeting attendees that the bureau received the highest monthly number of consumer complaints in the bureau’s history […]

CFPB, housing agencies launch website to help mortgage borrowers, renters affected by coronavirus crisis

May 12, 2020 0

A website to provide mortgage and housing assistance to homeowners and renters facing difficulties amid the coronavirus (COVID-10) pandemic was launched jointly Tuesday by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) and federal housing agencies. The […]

Fed updates term sheet on Term Asset-Backed Securities Loan Facility (TALF); $100 billion in loans initially available

May 12, 2020 0

The Term Asset-Backed Securities Loan Facility (TALF) created March 23 by the Federal Reserve to help ensure a continued source of credit to businesses and consumers will initially make up to $100 billion in loans available, […]

With all corporate credit unions participating, Central Liquidity Facility has $13 billion more borrowing authority to year-end

May 11, 2020 0

The liquidity facility run by the federal credit union regulator will be able to borrow more than $13 billion to meet the liquidity needs of 3,700 credit unions through this year-end under membership subscriptions enabled […]

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Delinquency rates on rise for CRE, some consumer loans, Fed supervision report finds

November 15, 2024 0

Delinquency rates for some commercial real estate (CRE) loans and some consumer loans have increased to above pre-pandemic levels, and banks have boosted the allowance for credit losses in anticipation of further deterioration in asset quality, according to a supervision [...]
CLF’s 2025-26 budget, share insurance fund update slated next Thursday

November 15, 2024 0

The budget for the agency’s liquidity facility for credit unions is slated for action during the Nov. 21 open meeting of the National Credit Union Administration (NCUA) Board, which will also receive a credit union share (deposit) insurance fund briefing. [...]
Farmer Mac stock a permissible investment for some FCUs, agency opinion states

November 15, 2024 0

Federal credit unions (FCUs) may invest in common stock of the Federal Agricultural Mortgage Corporation, or Farmer Mac, to the extent they must in order to serve as loan originators or sellers in the program, the federal credit union regulator [...]
Fed’s Kugler becomes latest board member to advocate for continued agency independence

November 14, 2024 0

Count Federal Reserve Board Gov. Adriana Kugler as an advocate of continued agency independence, who Thursday said that condition is “fundamental” to the Fed achieving good policy. In remarks to a meeting of the Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association [...]
VA firm must pay $3 million for taking funds, blocking accounts to pay for prisoner basic needs

November 14, 2024 0

A Virginia firm must pay $3 million for illegally taking millions of dollars from more than a half-million accounts and blocking money transfers to consumers who are incarcerated, according to charges made public by Thursday by the federal consumer financial [...]
OIG sets 4 recommendations for NCUA’s federal chartering process

November 14, 2024 0

Automation, better communication on process and a process for handling inquiries are recommended for the federal credit union regulator’s chartering process in an inspector general audit report released recently on the agency’s website. The National Credit Union Administration (NCUA) Office [...]
Small FL credit union conserved

November 14, 2024 0

The $59 million-in-assets Alliance Credit Union of Florida, Gainesville, Fla., was conserved last week by the state’s financial regulator, with the National Credit Union Administration (NCUA) named conservator. No specific reason for the conservatorship was provided in the NCUA’s evening [...]
PA bank failure, first of year, came from reclassified debt securities, dysfunctional management, report finds

November 13, 2024 0

Republic First Bank became “critically undercapitalized” in April – which a dysfunctional board and management team exacerbated, ultimately leading to the bank’s failure, according to the material loss review published Wednesday by the federal insurer of bank deposits. The report, [...]
Reports of suspected fraud using deepfake media spurs FinCEN to issue ‘red flags’ alert to FIs

November 13, 2024 0

An alert to help financial institutions identify fraud schemes targeting them and that are associated with the use of deepfake media created with generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) tools was issued Wednesday by Treasury’s financial crimes enforcement arm. The Financial Crimes [...]

Highest monthly consumer complaint volumes ever (March, April) cited by CFPB director; mortgages, credit cards top those related to COVID-19

CFPB, housing agencies launch website to help mortgage borrowers, renters affected by coronavirus crisis

Fed updates term sheet on Term Asset-Backed Securities Loan Facility (TALF); $100 billion in loans initially available

With all corporate credit unions participating, Central Liquidity Facility has $13 billion more borrowing authority to year-end

Updated term sheet for municipal lending facility offers up to $500 bill in loans for state, local governments

COVID-19 spurred 32 actions by Fed over two months, supervision/reg report shows

Agency vows ‘no hesitation’ in taking enforcement action for consumer abuses, scams profiting from COVID-19 crisis

FAQs aim to clarify timing of PPP loans under ECOA requirements

‘Living will’ deadlines for biggest foreign banks, other large local and foreign banks, get 90-day extensions

FFIEC panel publishes Q&A on COVID-19 impacts on appraisers

Delinquency rates on rise for CRE, some consumer loans, Fed supervision report finds

Farmer Mac stock a permissible investment for some FCUs, agency opinion states

Fed’s Kugler becomes latest board member to advocate for continued agency independence

VA firm must pay $3 million for taking funds, blocking accounts to pay for prisoner basic needs

OIG sets 4 recommendations for NCUA’s federal chartering process

Small FL credit union conserved

PA bank failure, first of year, came from reclassified debt securities, dysfunctional management, report finds

Reports of suspected fraud using deepfake media spurs FinCEN to issue ‘red flags’ alert to FIs