Final Rule Summary – OCC Fair Access to Financial Services
Updated 01/22/2021
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (“OCC”) finalized a rule to ensure that national banks and Federal savings associations offer and provide fair access to financial services. The rule prohibits a bank from making broad, category-based risk decisions to refuse to provide financial services to certain kinds of businesses. The OCC expects a financial institution to assess whether or not to bank a particular person on “an individual risk management decision about the individual customer, not on the fact that the customer operates in an industry subject to a broad categorical exclusion created by the bank.” The rule creates a new part 55 and establishes the parameters of the fair access requirement. Part 55 applies to a bank with $100 billion or more in total assets.
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