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Compliance and Risk

In a comment letter to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau today — the ninth of 12 that the association will submit in response to the bureau’s ongoing feedback initiative — ABA encouraged the bureau to update the regulations and related commentaries it inherited from other federal agencies on a regular basis as issues and questions arise and markets evolve.

Mortgage

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau today modified the Equal Credit Opportunity Act (Regulation B) to provide flexibility for lenders around the collection of applicants’ demographic data under the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (Regulation C).

Compliance and Risk

ABA today expressed its support for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s proposal to harmonize borrower application data reporting requirements of the Equal Credit Opportunity Act (Regulation B) with new requirements under the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (Regulation C).

Compliance and Risk

As part of the banking industry’s continuing response to President Trump’s executive order outlining “core principles” for financial regulation, ABA today urged federal regulators and law enforcement to reign in disparate impact and redlining investigations that go beyond the law and Supreme Court precedent.