The CFPB rescinded a 2020 advisory opinion on special-purpose credit programs, saying the document contains statements that conflict with recent changes to fair lending enforcement and that the programs raise “serious constitutional concerns.”
ABA and the Maryland Bankers Association have released a new ad applauding Rep. April McClain Delaney’s (D-Md.) support of policies that lower costs for farmers, fishers and homeowners and encouraging her to keep up those efforts.
Even though U.S. consumers still face the challenge of elevated inflation, their robust spending should help support the overall economy and loan demand.
The leaders of the House and Senate banking committees announced they had reached an agreement on a bipartisan housing bill that includes several provisions related to banking, from brokered deposits to de novo bank formation.
The OCC has amended the criteria it uses to designate financial institutions as minority depository institutions, including the removal of policy language that the agency said allowed it to continue MDI designation “when the bank no longer met...
The FDIC should take further steps to strengthen its bank supervision, and HUD should take steps to mitigate fraud in federal disaster recovery and improve manufactured housing financing, the Government Accountability Office concluded in separate reports.
