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ANOTHER MATERNITY LEAVE CASE

Posted by jholzknecht on  August 2, 2016
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Category: Fair Housing, HUD
On July 29, 2016 the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) announced that it has reached a Conciliation Agreement with Philadelphia-based Citizens Bank of Pennsylvania and Providence, Rhode Island-based Citizens Bank, collectively known as Citizens Bank, settling allegations that the bank violated the Fair Housing Act when it told a female applicant that she would need to return to work before her application for a home equity line of credit could be approved.

TRID PROPOSAL

Posted by jholzknecht on  August 1, 2016
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“The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has begun drafting a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) to make adjustments to the Know Before You Owe rule,” CFPB director Richard Cordray told industry trade groups in an April 28 letter. Cordray said he hopes the NPRM will be issued in late July. Well his “hopes” became reality late last week. On July 28 the CFPB Published a 293-page proposal. The proposal has a quick 82-day comment period, which

ILLEGAL OVERDRAFT PRACTICES

Posted by jholzknecht on  July 19, 2016
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Category: CFPB, Overdrafts
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has ordered Delaware-based Santander Bank, N.A. to pay a $10 million fine for illegal overdraft service practices. Santander’s telemarketing vendor deceptively marketed the overdraft service and signed certain bank customers up for the service without their consent. In addition to paying the civil money penalty to the CFPB, Santander must go back and give consumers the opportunity to provide their affirmative consent to overdraft service, not use a vendor

REVISED INTERAGENCY CRA QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

Posted by jholzknecht on  July 19, 2016
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Recently the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC); Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (Board); Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) published final revisions to the Interagency Questions and Answers Regarding Community Reinvestment. The final rule was based on a proposal issued on September 10, 2014 that addressed alternative systems for delivering retail banking services; community development-related issues; and the qualitative aspects of performance, including innovative or flexible lending practices and the

HMDA FIG PUBLISHED

Posted by jholzknecht on  July 13, 2016
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Category: FFIEC, HMDA, Regulation C
The much anticipated Filing Instructions Guide (FIG) has been published by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). Actually the CFPB has published two FIGs – one for data collected in 2017 and one for data collected in 2018 or later. The 2017 FIG is 47 pages in length. The 2018 Guide is 78 pages in length. Both are dated July 2016.   The CFPB has also published a Technology Review and Frequently Asked Questions documents,
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