The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau will increase its efforts in 2017 to prevent credit discrimination and improve credit access, according to a blog post published on the CFPB website today. Specifically, the bureau will investigate “redlining” issues to determine whether lenders have intentionally avoided lending in minority neighborhoods. It will also evaluate whether women and minorities experience discrimination when applying for credit, or experience greater difficulty when attempting to work out payment arrangements with servicers for student loans or home mortgages.
ABA Chair: Community banks are no one’s stalking horse in the Clarity Act debate
If consumers and businesses are encouraged to move money from bank deposits into stablecoins that offer interest-like rewards, those funds will no longer support local lending in the way they previously did, ABA Chair Kenneth Kelly said in...









