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Navigating new overdraft fee guidance for community banks

Independent Banker

Illustration by Jozefmicic/Adobe The CFPB recently issued new guidance on overdraft fees that was unanticipated by community banks. Learn what this means for the industry and how community banks can stay in compliance. In March 2022, the CFPB noted in its blog that “overdraft fees can price people out of banking.”

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OCC CRA Final Rule: What’s Next for the FDIC and Federal Reserve Board?

CFPB Monitor

When the OCC issued its final Community Reinvestment Act (“CRA”) rule on May 20, 2020, the agency acted alone without waiting to achieve consensus with the FDIC, the agency with which the OCC had jointly issued its proposed rule. As to the Federal Reserve Board (“FRB”), it had already bowed out of the CRA reform effort in 2019.

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Longer exam cycle for more community banks?

Abrigo

A new bill proposed on April 16 aims to increase the exam cycle period for a larger pool of community banks. would make more banks eligible for an 18-month exam cycle as opposed to the norm of a 12-month schedule. If implemented, hundreds of additional banks would be eligible for the longer cycle.

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Cutting the red tape for community banks

Abrigo

By eliminating or revising some of the items that banks must include in their call reports the FFIEC hopes to streamline the reporting and decrease the amount of time spent on them. The article allowed banking executives to weigh in on the subject. Sound is a $500 million institution.

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GAO notes regulations’ trickle-down effects on smaller banks

Abrigo

The GAO acknowledged that community banks, credit unions and their professional industry associations reported increased compliance burdens and reduced activity in specific business activities, such as certain mortgage lending, as a result of Dodd-Frank. A lengthy report released recently by the U.S.

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FDIC cautions of increasing credit, interest-rate risks

Abrigo

Add FDIC Chairman Martin J. Gruenberg to the list of regulators and industry officials warning about growing credit risks in the U.S. The FDIC said that the percentage of loans and securities with maturities of three or more years hit the highest percentage in the 18 years of data records, rising to 34.6

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Financial Institution Regulators Address Financial Inclusion, Expansion of Access to Credit, and Further Consumer Protection from Discrimination

CFPB Monitor

federal and state financial institution regulators have taken meaningful, proactive steps to acknowledge financial inequality issues, reach out to traditionally underserved populations to expand access to credit, and further protect consumers from discrimination. This blog post contains a summary of those efforts.