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 Ag Conference: Policy experts begin to break down midterm’s effect on ag banking
Members of ABA’s policy team were on hand to help ag lenders begin to sort out the election results that put Democrats in control of Congress and what the transfer of power might mean for ag and rural...








