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for April 7, 2023
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Highlights From The 2023 Just Economy Conference
By NCRC
The largest Just Economy Conference in NCRC history was also one of the newsiest: As attendees arrived to the Washington Hilton, the banking industry was reeling from three regional bank failures. Some regulators who’d been scheduled to speak were being called to Capitol Hill to testify before Congress, but still made time to connect with the NCRC audience either from the main stage or via video calls. [Read more ([link removed] ) ]
CFPB Puts Lenders & FinTechs On Notice: Their Models Must Search For Less Discriminatory Alternatives Or Face Fair Lending Non-Compliance Risk
By Brad Blower
The fresh heads-up to the industry came from Patrice Ficklin, the Associate Director of the CFPB’s Office of Fair Lending and Equal Opportunity, who said that lenders must search for less discriminatory alternatives (LDAs) as part of their fair lending compliance testing. Ficklin’s comments would apply to all model-based lending practices, whether or not they use AI tools specifically. This is the first time the CFPB has made it clear that a lender must demonstrate that its models could not be reasonably enhanced to be more fair before they are launched and during their use. [Read more ([link removed] ) ]
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Race, Jobs & The Economy
By Dedrick Asante-Muhammad, Jason Richardson and Joseph Dean
Black and Hispanic unemployment rates often spike before other groups when a recession begins. The February jobs report may flame the fears of a recession. [Read more ([link removed] ) ]
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CFPB Is Right To Challenge Flagrantly Incorrect Ruling In Townstone Suit
By NCRC
It is patently ludicrous for any court to find that a federally-regulated mortgage company and its owner, President and CEO can host a radio show where the owner publicly called Black neighborhoods “jungles” that are “scary places” because they are “packed [with] people from all over the world” who participate in “hoodlum weekends” while marketing financial services to the public and not face any consequences for their discriminatory conduct.
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CFPB Director Rohit Chopra Announces Final Section 1071 Rules At NCRC’s Just Economy Conference
By NCRC
“Director Chopra was able to push out this important and long-awaited final regulation on small-business lending data collection after barely a year in the job,” NCRC President and CEO Jesse Van Tol said. “I applaud Director Chopra and his staff for the hard work that went into delivering a rule Congress authorized nearly 13 years ago to eliminate blind spots around access to small business loans. It is just the latest reminder of how essential it is for the American people to have reliable information on how access to credit is still affected by race and gender. [Read more ([link removed] ) ]
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Jesse Van Tol’s Moving Keynote Speech From The 2023 Just Economy Conference Awards Gala
By NCRC
Jesse Van Tol, NCRC President and CEO. |. 2023 Just Economy Conference ([link removed] )
CFPB Director Rohit Chopra Announces Section 1071 Final Rule At 2023 Just Economy Conference
By NCRC
Rohit Chopra | 2023 Just Economy Conference | 3 3 2023 ([link removed] )
HUD Secretary Marcia L. Fudge Addresses The National Community Reinvestment Coalition’s 2023 Just Economy Conference
By NCRC
Marcia L Fudge | 2023 Just Economy Conference | 3 30 2023 ([link removed] )
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In the News
Silicon Valley Bank Pledged $11 Billion In Community Benefits. Now What?
By Allissa Kline, American Banker
Acknowledging that SVB is "a different bank with different capabilities" today is central to figuring out how to move forward, said Jesse Van Tol, president and CEO of the National Community Reinvestment Coalition, a fair-lending group that helps negotiate community benefits plans. [Read more ([link removed] ) ]
KeyBank Lending In Black Communities Falls Short, Study Shows. Could Cuyahoga Be Shopping For A New Bank Soon?
By Kaitlin Durbin, Cleveland News
The National Community Reinvestment Coalition, a fair-lending advocacy group, cut ties with KeyBank last year after a similar study showed it was failing. [Read more ([link removed] ) ]
OCC's Hsu: Fairness As Important To Bank Health As Safety And Soundness
By Ebrima Santos Sanneh, American Banker
"It is precisely during times like these — when the world is fixated on financial and systemic risks — that issues of fairness can get pushed to the bottom of the pile and ignored," Hsu said in his prepared remarks before the National Community Reinvestment Coalition's Washington summit Thursday. "We need to be able to walk and chew gum at the same time — i.e., maintain a laser focus on effective financial risk management and work to ensure fairness."
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On Our Radar
Historical Redlining Linked With Stroke Prevalence In NYC
By Gianna Melillo, Yahoo News
In the study, researchers determined weighted scores for historical redlining using the average proportion of original redlined territory overlapped with 2010 census tract boundaries in New York City. They then assessed how redlining compared with other social determinants of health when it came to modern-day stroke prevalence. [Read More ([link removed] ) ]
Stocks, Yields Fall; Data Suggests U.S. Economy Cooling
By Caroline Valetkevitch, Reuters
World stock indexes declined on Tuesday, with all three major U.S. stock indexes ending lower, while the U.S. dollar fell to a two-month low and Treasury yields eased after data suggested a cooling in the U.S. labor market. [Read more ([link removed] ) ]
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