GEOCODING TOOLS ABOUND!
Category: ECOA, HMDA, Regulation B, Regulation C
If your financial institution is a HMDA reportable financial institution, then you are intimately familiar with geocoding and the headaches that the process causes when it comes to completing your HMDA LAR. The property location data fields (state, county, MSA, census tract codes, etc.) account for many of the errors that your regulatory agency identifies when completing data integrity on your LAR. Well, CFPB to the rescue (insert sigh)! As we reported in a recent
On April 26, 2017 Representative Hensarling’s Financial Services Committee published the Financial CHOICE Act, HR 10. According to the Executive summary the bill will: End “Too Big to Fail” and Bank Bailouts Demand Wall Street Accountability through enhanced penalties for fraud and deception Demand accountability from financial regulators and devolve power away from Washington Provide for election to be a strongly capitalized, well managed financial institution Unleash opportunities for small businesses, innovators, and job creators
The CFPB has been busy with proposed changes in recent weeks. Two proposed changes released by the CFPB will impact most financial institutions to some degree. The CFPB released proposed changes to Regulation B on March 24, 2017. The proposal is designed to permit creditors additional flexibility in complying with Regulation B – ECOA, in order to facilitate compliance with Regulation C – HMDA. This proposal was not unexpected. In addition, the CFPB released changes
On April 20, 2017, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) issued a final rule which delays the effective date of the Prepaid Accounts Rule under the Electronic Fund Transfer Act (Regulation E) and the Truth in Lending Act (Regulation Z) for six months, until April 1, 2018. The CFPB issued the Prepaid Account Rule on October 6, 2016 with an effective date of October 1, 2017. On March 16, 2017, the CFPB proposed delaying the
On April 14, 2017, the CFPB released its fifth Fair Lending Report reflecting the Bureau’s rulemaking, supervision, enforcement, interagency collaboration, and outreach activities for 2016 as well as its fair lending priorities for 2017. Perhaps most importantly for financial institutions is the Report’s identification of fair lending priorities for 2017, which includes redlining, mortgage and student loan servicing, and small business lending, as well as the method for identifying fair lending priorities. The Report notes
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