22mar10 – Regulatory Report

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[ November 13, 2025 ] CFPB proposes to reduce Reg B consumer protections; focus small-biz loan data collection on ‘truly small’ businesses CFPB
[ November 13, 2025 ] Agencies release CRA-required data on 2024 small business, farm, community development lending FDIC
[ November 13, 2025 ] Booklet on SCRA revised noting changes in risk-based supervision, removal of ‘reputation risk’ OCC
[ November 12, 2025 ] CFPB: DOJ office finds bureau may not legally draw funds ‘at this time’ CFPB
[ November 12, 2025 ] Concern over ‘policy uncertainty’ risks grows, with distress over ‘geopolitical’ risks rising sharply, Fed survey shows The Fed

NCUA adds 3 top management, performance challenges faced in 2022; highlights pandemic, diversity (MDIs), staffing

March 10, 2022 0

Of seven top management and performance challenges faced by the agency in 2022, a report just released by the federal credit union regulator’s inspector general office states, three of the challenges are newly identified: ensuring […]

Bureau unveils initiative to address issues of rural America, with focus on banking deserts, discriminatory lending, manufactured housing

March 10, 2022 0

Issues facing rural America are the focus of an initiative launched Thursday by the federal consumer financial protection agency, with particular initial emphasis on rural banking deserts, discriminatory and predatory agricultural credit, and manufactured housing, […]

CFPB proposes to reduce Reg B consumer protections; focus small-biz loan data collection on ‘truly small’ businesses

November 13, 2025 0

Changes to its Regulation B implementing the Equal Credit Opportunity Act (ECOA), including removal of provisions recognizing “disparate impact” and a narrowing of its small-business loan data collection requirements, are proposed by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) with public [...]
Agencies release CRA-required data on 2024 small business, farm, community development lending

November 13, 2025 0

Data on small business, small farm, and community development lending during 2024 – required by rules implementing anti-redlining laws – was released Thursday by federal banking agencies. In joint releases, the Federal Reserve, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency [...]
Booklet on SCRA revised noting changes in risk-based supervision, removal of ‘reputation risk’

November 13, 2025 0

The risk-based supervision approach is now incorporated into a booklet used by the national bank regulator to assess compliance with statutes designed to provide protections to active-duty customers in the U.S. armed services, the agency said Thursday. The Office of [...]
CFPB: DOJ office finds bureau may not legally draw funds ‘at this time’

November 12, 2025 0

The consumer bureau charged with consumer financial protection under the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (Dodd-Frank) may not legally request funds “at this time” from the Federal Reserve, the bureau said in a release Tuesday, Veterans Day. [...]
Concern over ‘policy uncertainty’ risks grows, with distress over ‘geopolitical’ risks rising sharply, Fed survey shows

November 12, 2025 0

“Policy uncertainty” has risen as a “salient risk” to the financial system, at least in the eyes of those working in the financial services industry, according to results of a Federal Reserve survey released Nov. 7. The survey was part [...]
FDIC reduces consumer compliance exam, CRA eval frequency for most

November 7, 2025 0

A revised consumer compliance examination manual provides for less-frequent consumer compliance exams for most supervised banks, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. (FDIC) said in a Financial Institution Letter (FIL) Friday. The agency said its updated manual also establishes a new [...]