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DOJ announces $9M settlement with Washington Trust for redlining in Rhode Island

American Banker

based Washington Trust over race-based lending discrimination and redlining in the state, saying the bank denied lending services to Black and Hispanic neighborhoods from 2016 to 2021. The Department of Justice reached a $9 million settlement Wednesday with Westerly, R.I.-based

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State AGs urge Mulvaney to continue use of disparate impact theory of ECOA liability

CFPB Monitor

57, disapproving of the CFPB’s Bulletin 2013-2 regarding “Indirect Auto Lending and Compliance with the Equal Credit Opportunity Act.” The states whose AGs signed the comment letter are North Carolina, California, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Virginia.