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FDIC Encourages Participation with the Financial Institution Diversity Self-Assessment

CFPB Monitor

On March 15, 2021, the FDIC’s Office of Minority and Women Inclusion (OMWI) released a Financial Institution Letter regarding diversity self-assessments. The FDIC’s request mirrors those by shareholder activists to obtain greater disclosure from corporate boards on the efficacy of their diversity programs.

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Diversity reports at two federal agencies offer glimpse of regulatory review under impending Dodd-Frank diversity standards

CFPB Monitor

Pedrow* The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (“Dodd-Frank”), signed by President Obama in 2010 in response to the financial crisis, includes a provision intended to remedy racial and gender discrepancies at federal financial regulatory agencies and private financial institutions.

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Fighting Digital with Digital

Independent Banker

The quickness with which these Wall Street-driven nonbank lenders—variously called peer-to-peer, online marketplace or financial technology (FinTech) lenders—can fulfill borrowers’ requests has enabled alternative lending to double every year since 2010. FDIC-insured deposits largely solve this problem for banks.

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LendingClub Settles With SEC, DOJ

PYMNTS

The DOJ investigation centered on whether LendingClub had – between January 2009 to September 2010 – misled its FDIC-insured loan originator, WebBank , leading the bank to underwrite over 200 loans that did not conform to the bank’s lending requirements. In 2010, LendingClub added to its war chest with a $24.5

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Real Estate: Love it or hate it?

Jeff For Banks

As I understand it, government officials (excluding regulators) want banks to lend, banks have the cash to lend, bankers are hesitant to lend, and regulators would just as soon have you hire another compliance officer and purchase a U.S. of total assets at March 31, 2010 (see link below). Are these more reliable?

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FinCEN Files Show Banks’ ‘Whack-a-Mole’ Battle Against KYC/AML

PYMNTS

billion transactions for potential suspicious activity and screened more than 157 million transactions for compliance with applicable sanctions requirements. As Standard Chartered noted to BuzzFeed in the wake of the FinCEN files report: "In 2019 we monitored more than 1.2 In one example, reported on Monday (Sept. billion in fines.

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Lack of an M&A Strategy May Leave You Dateless at the Prom

Gonzobanker

Between the end of 2010 and 2013, one new bank opened in the United States. . The costs of regulatory compliance, investments in new technology, investments in physical and digital channels, and thinning industry margins mean banks will need to be of a “certain” size to succeed long term. 20 years ago 10 years ago Today.