The Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division, with it’s beefed up staff and budget, is actively pursuing fair lending issues. Several recent cases are blurring the lines between the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) and the Fair Housing and Equal Credit Opportunity Acts. The purpose of CRA is to encourage banks to meet the credit needs of their local communities. The level of encouragement has increased significantly over the years. The Department of Justice (DOJ) has […]
Month: September 2011
THE POLITICAL CIRCUS
The Dodd-Frank Act is one the most significant pieces of legislation to ever impact the banking industry. Our lives would be much simpler if the law never happened, but the law did happen and we all have to deal with it. Instead of dealing with the law in a quick decisive manner Congress and the current administration have turned it into a political circus. Dodd-Frank became law on July 21, 2010. The law contains hundreds […]