The Treasury Department’s Community Development Financial Institutions Fund is announcing $23 million in funding for the fiscal year 2017 Bank Enterprise Awards, which encourage banks to increase their investments and loans in disadvantaged communities. The BEA program is the only program to which CDFI banks have had regular access in recent years. The first deadline in the application process for BEA funds is Nov. 16 and the final application deadline is Nov. 30.
ABA offers banker questions about small-business lending data rule implementation
ABA submitted a list of frequently asked questions from bankers about the CFPB’s upcoming implementation of its revised small-business lending data rule.








