The Department of Housing and Urban Development and the Federal Housing Finance Agency announced an agreement regarding fair housing and fair lending coordination.
The Treasury Department released revised guidance on its Emergency Capital Investment Program to support minority and community development financial institutions.
The Senate voted down an ICBA-advocated amendment that would have barred the IRS from using funds in a pending spending bill to monitor bank customers’ financial transactions.
Small businesses without employees were most successful in obtaining Paycheck Protection Program funding from community banks and were the most satisfied with the support they received during the pandemic compared to large banks and credit unions.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau updated its Mortgage Servicing Small Entity Compliance Guide to include guidance on the 2021 Mortgage Servicing COVID-19 final rule and the 2020 Mortgage Servicing COVID-19 interim final rule.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau issued an interpretive rule to address certain time-sensitive borrower protections related to the treatment of June 19, 2021 as a business day or federal holiday.
The best way to influence policymakers is to get in front of them in-person, according to the Congressional Management Foundation and the August recess is the best time to schedule an in-district meeting.
The speaker lineup for the ICBA LEAD FWD Summit, live-streaming Sept. 21-22, is taking shape with the announcement of Precious Williams, a 13-time national pitch champion as the Day 2 keynote speaker.
ICBA urged the Senate Banking Committee to re-examine the anti-competitive effect from the surge in credit union acquisitions of taxpaying community banks and the permissive oversight of the National Credit Union Administration.
In separate events, Securities and Exchange Chairman Gary Gensler and Acting Comptroller of the Currency Michael Hsu discussed efforts underway to adapt to the digitization of banking and finance.
