CFPB Monitor

MAY 18, 2022

After moving alone in 2020 to reform its Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) regulation, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) has joined the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) and Federal Reserve Board in issuing a joint notice of proposed rulemaking setting forth proposed amendments to their regulations implementing the CRA.

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CFPB Monitor

JUNE 13, 2022

One issue raised in the RFI is “to what extent should the CFPB be consulted by the FDIC when considering the convenience and needs factor and should that consultation be formalized?”. Whether the FDIC finds these arguments persuasive is yet to be seen.

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CFPB Monitor

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

The OCC and FDIC issued proposed rules this week intended to eliminate the uncertainty created by the Second Circuit’s decision in Madden v. Comments on the FDIC’s proposal must be submitted no later than 60 days after the date the proposal is published in the Federal Register. Midland Funding. 85 [or 12 U.S.C

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CFPB Monitor

DECEMBER 28, 2020

The FDIC has issued a final rule setting forth the conditions it will impose and the commitments it will require to approve a deposit insurance application from an industrial bank or industrial loan company (collectively, ILC) whose parent company is not subject to consolidated supervision by the Federal Reserve Board (FRB).

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Abrigo

MAY 19, 2023

The complexity and scope of a loan review system will vary based on an institution’s size, type of operations, and management practices. Systems may include components that are independent of the lending function or may place some reliance on loan officers.

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Perficient

JULY 12, 2023

Often an organization will have a state-charted non-member bank, which has the FDIC as its primary federal regulator. The guidance emphasizes that using third parties, especially those using new technologies, may present elevated risks to banking organizations and their customers, including operational, compliance, and strategic risks.

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CFPB Monitor

MAY 6, 2021

Atlanticus/Fortiva performs all of the collections, servicing, payment and remittance operations in connection with the accounts. The OCFR claims that the Bank’s failure to hold the required lending licenses makes the loans unenforceable and prohibits Atlanticus/Fortiva from collecting any amounts on the loans.

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Abrigo

JULY 20, 2021

From leveraging PPP technology to building relationships, reasons for boosting SBA lending are numerous. . Takeaway 2 Far fewer financial institutions regularly participate in SBA (7a) lending than the more than 5,000 that joined the PPP. . Why SBA Lending? Want other articles like this on SBA loan origination in your inbox?

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Abrigo

MARCH 2, 2023

But when a storm hit, limitations on the back end due to its insufficient operations technology hampered Southwest’s ability to handle the most basic customer service in that industry: getting customers safely where they needed to be. A buyer’s guide for lending software for smaller financial institutions can be helpful.

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CFPB Monitor

JANUARY 2, 2019

The CFPB and the federal banking agencies—the FDIC, Fed, and OCC— remain open during the government shutdown as their funding does not come from congressional appropriations. Also closed during the shutdown are many HUD operations and activities. However, the shutdown has resulted in the closing of the FTC.

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CFPB Monitor

JUNE 18, 2019

Last week, the FDIC published its Consumer Compliance Supervisory Highlights that provides observations about its consumer compliance supervision activities in 2018. The FDIC’s anonymized exam findings include: Overdraft Programs. Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act (“RESPA”) Section 8 Violations.

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South State Correspondent

AUGUST 21, 2022

Lending Discipline: Hedging programs make loan pricing more transparent and force bankers to exercise sensible pricing methodologies. Second, community banks should use FDIC-insured institutions as hedge providers, and the hedges must be structured as qualified financial contracts (QFC).

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 24, 2019

In a press release , Fundation said it is collaborating with Banc of California to develop a streamlined, digital small business lending and line of credit solution that the bank can offer to its small business clients. SMBs can use the tool to apply for financing through an online application on the Banc of California website. .

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CFPB Monitor

DECEMBER 19, 2019

The OCC and FDIC have issued a joint proposal to revise their regulations implementing the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA). Although the Federal Reserve, OCC and FDIC, are the primary CRA regulators, the Fed did not join the proposal and presumably will issue a separate proposal. ” Click here to register.

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Gonzobanker

JUNE 14, 2023

Cross River Bank recently found itself in hot water with the FDIC when the agency declared that the bank engaged in unsafe or unsound banking practices in relation to its compliance with fair lending laws and regulations, specifically the Equal Credit Opportunity Act and the Truth-in-Lending Act. Don’t get complacent.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 6, 2019

“Time and time again we hear from small businesses that access to capital is the biggest obstacle to growth,” Company.com Chief Operating Officer David Kramer said in the announcement. Yet the FDIC said in previous analysis that the actual volume of traditional bank loans to small businesses in the U.S.

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Abrigo

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Overall, FDIC-insured commercial banks and savings institutions aren’t seeing dramatic increases in net charge-offs ( Chart 1 ) or rates related to declining asset quality ( Chart 2 ), such as past-due rates and rates for non-current loans. Comments on the proposal were due Oct.

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Independent Banker

JUNE 30, 2022

“We were looking at ways to increase our deposit base and impact the communities we serve,” says Tom Kientz, chief operating officer. One of the very quick things we turned to were HOAs … and we quickly learned we could earn more of their business if we had a lending solution. Two bank charters (which doubles FDIC coverage).

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CFPB Monitor

OCTOBER 9, 2018

The FDIC’s Center for Financial Research has issued a research paper that discusses the use of the information contained in a “digital footprint,” meaning the information that people leave online by accessing or registering on a website, for predicting consumer default. The operating system (e.g. tablet or mobile). iOS or Android).

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 16, 2019

Axos Bank parent company Axos Financial has rolled out out commercial banking operations across new markets in the U.S., “The nation’s two largest metropolitan areas are home to a majority of our commercial lending and banking clients,” said Greg Garrabrants, president and CEO of Axos, in a statement.

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Bank Innovation

APRIL 25, 2019

Fintechs are having trouble facing reality when it comes to obtaining bank charters, FDIC Chairman Jelena McWilliams and Comptroller of the Currency Joseph Otting said here at the FDIC’s Fintech and the Future of Banking conference on Wednesday. WASHINGTON, D.C.

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The Financial Brand

MARCH 26, 2024

This article How a Regulatory Nudge Pushed Payday Lending into the Mainstream, Benefiting Borrowers and Banks appeared first on The Financial Brand. The big banks have embraced small dollar lending, saving millions of consumers billions of dollars annually, according to a new report.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 24, 2019

By way of example, FinTechs must cobble together money transmitter licenses from each state in which they operate. And in effect, these tech-savvy upstarts would have been able to act like banks, operating as banks do, to take deposits and make loans. Can’t get the charter without FDIC coverage.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 13, 2017

Which means it really doesn’t come as all that huge a surprise that as of June 6th, SoFi had applied for a new (de novo) bank charter according to the FDIC. Instead, SoFi as a bank will exist so it can “provide its customers an FDIC insured NOW account and a credit card product. SoFi has confirmed the news.

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FICO

OCTOBER 4, 2016

The potential of alternative data in consumer lending decisions continues to be a hot topic in Washington, D.C., Adopted in 1977, the CRA is intended to encourage depository institutions to help meet the credit needs of the communities in which they operate, including low- and moderate-income neighborhoods.

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Independent Banker

JULY 31, 2022

Featured offerings include commercial banking, commercial real estate lending for both owner-occupied and investment, SBA lending, and deposit and business treasury services. He began his career in the securities business and specializes in commercial banking, real estate lending and treasury. Filling a need.

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Jeff For Banks

DECEMBER 10, 2023

Although one might argue that First Citizens BancShares of Raleigh is a SIFI as it climbed to the 19th largest in the country with its Silicon Valley Bridge Bank acquisition from the FDIC, and that the FDIC designated SVB as systemically important. Nasdaq: TBBK) Here is this year's list: #1. M&F Bancorp, Inc.

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CFPB Monitor

JUNE 1, 2020

It also observed that its interpretation is consistent with the purpose of section 85 by facilitating national banks’ ability to operate lending programs on a nationwide basis and also promotes safe and sound operations by supporting national banks’ ability to use loan transfers as a source of liquidity. (The

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PYMNTS

MARCH 30, 2020

As COVID-19 saps consumer demand across all manner of verticals, and small businesses bear the brunt of a sudden disappearance of revenues, the firms that lend to those SMBs are feeling heat, too. The company is also reportedly “completely” closing down its Bangalore, India operations. staff, which has 500 employees.

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CFPB Monitor

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Thereafter, “using its existing lending operations and personnel, LoanMart commenced ‘marketing’ and ‘servicing’ auto title loans purportedly made by CCBank, a small Utah-chartered bank operating out of Provo, Utah.” Thus, both the OCC and FDIC have adopted regulations rejecting the Second Circuit’s Madden decision.

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Abrigo

MAY 5, 2022

Sometimes 20 minutes, sometimes 50 minutes, this podcast digs into such topics as creating branch experiences that go hand-in-hand with digital ones, identifying risk, and consumer lending. It also examines how community banks are different than other types of financial institutions, along with strategies for optimal operations.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 14, 2019

In the world of small business financial services, entrepreneurs’ frustrations with banking have been loudly vocalized : firms are often considered too small to be profitable for banks’ corporate services units and are therefore pushed into an FI’s consumer banking operations.

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CFPB Monitor

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

The Fed, FDIC, and OCC have issued a “ Statement on Reference Rates for Loans ” that addresses replacement rates for the London Inter-Bank Offered Rate (LIBOR). ” The statement highlighted the financial, legal, consumer protection, and operational risks that will result from LIBOR’s expected discontinuation.

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Abrigo

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Is the current period a good time to expand your operations? How do you expect your bank’s capital expenditures on facilities or operations to change over the next 12 months? The survey for the inaugural index included 512 FDIC banks responding from early in the second quarter through July 5. Asset/Liability. Credit Risk.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

House committee this week began reviewing the idea of allowing the likes of Amazon or Facebook to receive charters to operate as banks — an idea that’s already gotten plenty of pushback from traditional financial institutions (FIs). FDIC), the states and the courts.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

While many digital-first companies springboard from payments into lending, Figure Technologies , a FinTech focused on home improvement, debt consolidation and retirement products that leverage blockchain protocols, is branching out from lending into payments. Blockchain and a bank charter might do much to boost financial inclusion.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 23, 2017

22) report by American Banker , New York Venture Bank, which will be headquartered in New York, needs the nod of the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) before it can launch operations. FDIC), the news report noted the new bank will begin with $100 million in capital. According to a Wednesday (Nov.

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