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DOJ announces settlement of redlining lawsuit

CFPB Monitor

The key allegations in the DOJ’s complaint are the following: During the relevant time period (2015-2021), the Newark, New Jersey-Pennsylvania Metro Division (Newark MD) as delineated in 2015 included Essex, Somerset, Union, Sussex, and Morris counties in New Jersey (Newark Lending Area). unlikely to be caused by chance) and sizeable.

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NYDFS Creates New “Powerhouse” Consumer Protection and Financial Enforcement Division

CFPB Monitor

Lemire worked most recently in the private sector as a partner at StoneTurn, an international consulting firm, which acquired the risk and compliance firm Lemire LLC that she founded. New York is the second state to create a “mini” CFPB, following Pennsylvania. Prior to her work in consulting, Ms. Lemire was an Assistant U.S.

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California Dept. of Business Oversight launches “true lender” investigation of auto title lender’s partnership with Utah bank

CFPB Monitor

The DBO indicated that it “is investigating whether LoanMart’s role in the arrangement is so extensive as to require compliance with California’s lending laws. While several states oppose the preemption of state usury laws in the context of bank/nonbank partnerships, federal banking regulators have taken a different stance.

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As DOJ Probe Widens, Fulton Financial Overhauls Fair-Lending Efforts

American Banker

The Pennsylvania company has redoubled its outreach to low- and moderate-income consumers by partnering with Operation Hope on a down payment assistance program and naming a veteran banker to the newly created post of director of fair and responsible banking.

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Time Tried, Panic Tested. The Forgotten Story of the First National Bank of Keystone

Jeff For Banks

September 1st, 1999, regulators from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp, at the behest of the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, descended on a small coal mining town in Keystone, West Virginia. Clearly, blue-suit regulators stood out. The Bank's Rise McConnell came to the bank in 1977 from McKeesport, Pennsylvania.

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Fintech Fundings: 9 Companies Raise $73 Million Week Ending Dec 31

Fintech Labs Insights

Social media financial compliance specialist Gremln raised $1.4 HQ: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Social media management & compliance for financial institutions . HQ: Trieste, Tags: SMB, credit, lending, trade financing, underwriting, commerce. One Finovate alum added cash at year-end: . Person-to-person lender .

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An Open Letter to Rohit Chopra, CFPB Director: Isn’t it time for the CFPB to restart its best vehicle for interpreting the Federal consumer Financial laws–the Official Staff Commentaries?

CFPB Monitor

When the Truth in Lending Act became law in 1969, the Federal Reserve Board soon thereafter promulgated its implementing regulation, Regulation Z. The Fed subsequently began using Official Staff Commentaries for the other consumer finance regulations that it was charged with interpreting.