Final Days to Register for 2010 National Interagency Community Reinvestment Conf

February 24, 2010 By: News Blaze

The deadline to register for the 2010 National Interagency Community Reinvestment Conference in New Orleans, Louisiana is Friday, February 26, 2010. The conference will be held at the New Orleans Marriott, March 14-17, 2010. The U.S. Department of the Treasury's Community Development Financial Insti...

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OCC Releases CRA Evaluations For 9 National Banks

February 22, 2010 By: US Office of the Comptroller of the Currency

WASHINGTON, DC — The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) has released a list of Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) performance evaluations that became public during the period of January 15, 2010 through February 14, 2010. The list contains only national banks and insured federal branches...

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What’s Next for the CRA?

January 18, 2010 By: Washington Independent

Aside from mortgage lending, the other goal of the CRA is to provide basic banking services to low-income and minority citizens. In these locations, “Pawnshops and the like literally became the banking services,” said John Taylor, president and CEO of the National Community Reinvestment Coalition, t...

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OCC Releases CRA Evaluations For 30 National Banks

January 16, 2010 By: Office of Comptroller of the Currency

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) today released a list of Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) performance evaluations that became public during the period of December 15, 2009 through January 14, 2010. The list contains only national banks and insured federal branches of foreign bank...

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FDIC Gives 5 Area Banks ‘Satisfactory’ Rating - CBL

January 7, 2010 By: Citybizlist

First South Bank (Nasdaq: FSBK) of Washington, N.C., received the highest outstanding rating from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. among banks on Citybizlist's radar, according to a list of nonmember banks evaluated for compliance with the Community Reinvestment Act.

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FDIC Issues List of Banks Examined for CRA Compliance

January 6, 2010 By: FDIC

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) has issued its list of state nonmember banks recently evaluated for compliance with the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA). The list covers evaluation ratings that the FDIC assigned to institutions in October 2009. The CRA is a 1977 law intended to enco...

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The blame game never ends - audio

January 6, 2010 By: Public Radio.org

Our interview yesterday with former FDIC Chairman William Isaac prompted strong reactions for one particular remark he made. I’d like to follow up on it.

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Federal Regulators Redefine CRA Asset-Size Thresholds

December 24, 2009 By: Mortgageorb.com

Four federal bank regulatory agencies - the Federal Reserve System, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and the Office of Thrift Supervision - have announced the annual adjustment to the asset-size thresholds used to define "small bank," "small savings ...

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One year later and financial reform finds it's business as usual for Wall Street

December 10, 2009 By: Denise Richardson, Sun-Sentinel - FL

More than a year has passed since the financial crisis really hit and as far as I can tell, we’re not going to pull out of it any time soon. From everything I’ve read in the press and from all the e-mails I’ve received from frantic consumers, it’s clear that Wall Street banks are going about busines...

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FDIC Issues List of Banks Examined for CRA Compliance

December 6, 2009 By: FDIC

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) has issued its list of state nonmember banks recently evaluated for compliance with the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA). The list covers evaluation ratings that the FDIC assigned to institutions in September 2009. The CRA is a 1977 law intended to en...

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