A delegation of 15 ABA member bankers met with senior OCC staffers on Tuesday to present ideas for modernizing the regulations that implement the four-decade-old Community Reinvestment Act.

The OCC will formally seek public input on ways to improve Community Reinvestment Act regulations in the next 30 days, Comptroller of the Currency Joseph Otting said today.

As part of ABA’s long-term engagement with the Treasury Department and financial regulators on the Community Reinvestment Act, the association today sent a white paper to Treasury with several recommendations for modernizing the regulatory approach to CRA.

The federal banking agencies today released 2016 Community Reinvestment Act Data on small business, small farm and community development lending.

The federal banking agencies today finalized minor amendments to their respective Community Reinvestment Act regulations to address recent changes to Regulation C, which implements the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act.

The OCC today issued a revised policies and procedures manual spelling out its approach to licensing applications from banks that have non-satisfactory Community Reinvestment Act ratings, either overall or in a particular geographic region.

We discuss top White House adviser Gary Cohn's newsmaking remarks at ABA's Annual Convention earlier this week, the OCC's positive new posture on Community Reinvestment Act examinations and the top fintech trends shaping the next decade of banking.

The OCC has changed its Community Reinvestment Act supervision policies to ensure a “logical nexus” between banks’ CRA-related activities and CRA performance evaluation ratings and to give “full consideration” to banks’ efforts to take corrective action, the agency said today.

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The federal regulatory agencies today proposed amendments to their respective Community Reinvestment Act regulations to address recent changes to Regulation C, which implements the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act.