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FHFA Expands Housing Market Data Resources with New Manufactured House Price Index
October 9, 2024 / Source: FHFA
Washington, D.C. – The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) published today new national datasets on price trends for manufactured homes. FHFA’s release of the House Price Index (HPI) and median prices for manufactured homes provides quarterly data on the movement and level of manufactured home prices nationally. The price indexes and median prices for manufactured homes…
FDIC Extends Comment Period on Request for Information on Deposits
October 8, 2024 / Source: FDIC
WASHINGTON – The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) is extending until December 6, 2024, the comment period on the agency’s Request for Information (RFI) on deposit data that is not currently reported in the Call Report or other regulatory reports, including for uninsured deposits. The FDIC issued the RFI to seek information on the characteristics…
FDIC Announces Extension of Comment Period for Proposed Changes to its Brokered Deposit Regulations
October 8, 2024 / Source: FDIC
WASHINGTON – The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) is extending the comment period on its notice of proposed rulemaking (NPR) to strengthen the important prudential protections of the agency’s safety and soundness rule on brokered deposits (12 CFR 337.6) that implements Section 29 of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act. To provide additional opportunity for the public to…
U.S. Department of the Treasury Announces Awardees Under Innovative $75 Million Small Business Grant Program
October 8, 2024 / Source: Treasury
WASHINGTON – Today, the U.S. Department of the Treasury announced the full list of awardees receiving funding to support small business growth through the Biden-Harris Administration’s State Small Business Credit Initiative (SSBCI) Investing in America Small Business Opportunity Program (SBOP) following recent announcements of several initial awards. SBOP is a $75 million competitive grant program that provides…
OCC Solicits Research on Artificial Intelligence in Banking and Finance
October 7, 2024 / Source: OCC
WASHINGTON—The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) is soliciting academic research papers on the use of artificial intelligence in banking and finance for submission by December 15, 2024. The OCC will invite authors of selected papers to present to OCC staff and invited academic and government researchers at OCC Headquarters in Washington, D.C.,…
CFPB Takes Action Against Wrongful Auto Repossessions and Loan Servicing Breakdowns
October 7, 2024 / Source: CFPB
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) published a new edition of Supervisory Highlights describing the agency’s supervisory findings related to illegal practices in auto finance, including lenders repossessing consumers’ cars after the borrower made timely payments or received loan extensions. Other illegal conduct detailed in the report includes lenders providing inaccurate disclosures, misapplying loan…
Treasury Targets Significant International Hamas Fundraising Network
October 7, 2024 / Source: Treasury
WASHINGTON — Today, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) designated three individuals and one sham charity that are prominent international financial supporters of Hamas, as well as one Hamas-controlled financial institution in Gaza. OFAC also designated a longstanding Hamas supporter and nine of his businesses. These actors play critical…
Agencies announce dollar thresholds for applicability of truth in lending and consumer leasing rules for consumer credit and lease transactions
October 6, 2024 / Source: FRB
The Federal Reserve Board and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau today announced the dollar thresholds used to determine whether certain consumer credit and lease transactions in 2025 are subject to certain protections under Regulation Z (Truth in Lending) and Regulation M (Consumer Leasing). By law, the agencies are required to adjust the thresholds annually based…
Agencies Announce Dollar Thresholds for Smaller Loan Exemption from Appraisal Requirements for Higher-priced Mortgage Loans
October 6, 2024 / Source: CFPB
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the Federal Reserve Board, and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency today announced that the 2025 threshold for higher-priced mortgage loans that are subject to special appraisal requirements will increase from $32,400 to $33,500. The threshold amount will be effective January 1, 2025, and is based on the…
Commercial Lending: Refinance Risk
October 3, 2024 / Source: OCC
Summary The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) is issuing this bulletin to provide banks1 with guidance for managing credit risk associated with refinance risk. This bulletin does not address other risks, such as interest rate risk.2 Recission This bulletin rescinds Banking Bulletin 1993-50, “Loan Refinancing.” Note for Community Banks This bulletin applies to…
FDIC Issues List of Banks Examined for CRA Compliance
October 3, 2024 / Source: FDIC
WASHINGTON – The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) today 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 July 2024. The CRA is a 1977 law that requires the FDIC to assess a bank’s record…
HUD Awards $5 Million to HBCUs to Conduct Housing and Community Development Research
October 3, 2024 / Source: HUD
WASHINGTON – Today, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) awarded $5 million to Winston-Salem State University and Tennessee State University to establish Research Centers of Excellence. HUD’s Research Centers of Excellence (COEs) conduct research projects on topics of strategic interest to HUD and produce research that provides evidence-based solutions to housing, community development,…
FDIC Issues 2024 Small Business Lending Survey Report
October 2, 2024 / Source: FDIC
WASHINGTON – The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) today released the 2024 Small Business Lending Survey Report (SBLS). Conducted in 2022, the SBLS is a nationally representative sample of U.S. banks that offers important insights into their small business lending practices and how banks meet the credit needs of the nation’s small businesses. The SBLS gathered…
Biden-Harris Administration Announces More Than $279 Million in New Housing Investments
October 2, 2024 / Source: HUD
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) today announced nearly $279 million in awards to properties across 23 states and territories under its Green and Resilient Retrofit Program (GRRP) to support significant energy efficiency and climate resilience renovations of more than 3,500 homes. These Comprehensive grants and loans will increase energy and water efficiency, reduce climate…
Federal and state financial regulatory agencies issue interagency statement on supervisory practices regarding financial institutions affected by Hurricane Helene
October 2, 2024 / Source: FRB
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the Federal Reserve Board, the National Credit Union Administration, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, and state financial regulators, collectively the agencies, recognize the serious impact of Hurricane Helene on the customers and operations of many financial institutions and will provide appropriate regulatory assistance to affected institutions subject…
HUD Announces More Than $22 Million to Combat Housing Discrimination in America
October 1, 2024 / Source: HUD
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) today announced the availability of $22,241,793 to fair housing organizations across the nation to bolster ongoing efforts to address housing discrimination. Funds announced today through HUD’s Fair Housing Initiatives Program (FHIP) will support a variety of activities, including fair housing education and outreach, testing and…
CFPB Takes Aim at Double Billing and Inflated Charges in Medical Debt Collection
October 1, 2024 / Source: CFPB
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) issued guidance to prevent families from being targeted by illegal medical debt collection tactics. The advisory opinion clarifies that debt collectors, which may include third-party “revenue cycle management” companies, are violating federal law when they collect on inaccurate or legally invalid medical debts. These illegal practices include double-dipping…
OCC Releases Bank Supervision Operating Plan for Fiscal Year 2025
October 1, 2024 / Source: OCC
WASHINGTON—The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) today released its bank supervision operating plan for fiscal year (FY) 2025. The plan outlines the OCC’s supervision priorities and objectives for the year. It also facilitates the implementation of supervisory strategies for individual national banks, federal savings associations, federal branches and agencies of foreign banking…
Statement of Director Sandra L. Thompson on the Advisory Bulletin to the Federal Home Loan Bank System on Climate Risk
October 1, 2024 / Source: FHFA
The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) issued today an Advisory Bulletin to the Federal Home Loan Bank (FHLBank) System, AB 2024-04: FHLBank System Climate-Related Risk Management, following extensive outreach to the System’s members and other relevant stakeholders through the FHLBank System at 100: Focusing on the Future initiative. In recognition of the serious threat that climate risk and…
HUD and Ginnie Mae to Host Summit on Mortgage Market Resilience and Access to Credit
September 30, 2024 / Source: HUD
WASHINGTON – Today, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and Ginnie Mae announced plans to host a summit to explore the impact of mortgage market liquidity on Americans’ access to affordable home ownership. The Mortgage Market Resilience and Access to Credit Summit, happening Tuesday, October 15, 2024, at HUD headquarters, will bring together leaders from…
Speech – Economic Outlook
September 30, 2024 / Source: FRB
Chair Jerome H. Powell I have some brief comments on the economy and monetary policy and look forward to our discussion. Our economy is strong overall and has made significant progress over the past two years toward achieving our dual-mandate goals of maximum employment and stable prices. Labor market conditions are solid, having cooled from…
Speech – Recent Views on Monetary Policy and the Economic Outlook
September 30, 2024 / Source: FRB
Governor Michelle W. Bowman Good morning. I would like to thank the Georgia Bankers Association for the invitation to join you today for your annual conference.1 I appreciate the opportunity to share my views on the U.S. economy and monetary policy before we engage on community banking issues and other matters affecting the banking industry. In…
HUD Expands Housing Counseling Services to More Americans
September 18, 2024 / Source: HUD
WASHINGTON – Today, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) announced a series of new actions to expand housing counseling services and strengthen pathways to homeownership for Americans. HUD is also launching a new partnership with Zillow to help attract the next generation of homebuyers. HUD also published a final rule to allow additional…
FDIC Proposes Deposit Insurance Recordkeeping Rule for Banks’ Third-Party Accounts
September 18, 2024 / Source: FDIC
WASHINGTON – The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) Board of Directors today approved a notice of proposed rulemaking that would strengthen recordkeeping for bank deposits received from third party, non-bank companies accepting those deposits on behalf of consumers and businesses. The proposal seeks to address risks related to these third-party arrangements, protect depositors, and promote public confidence…
CFPB Takes Action to Stop Banks from Harvesting Overdraft Fees Without Consumers’ Consent
September 18, 2024 / Source: CFPB
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) published guidance to help federal and state consumer protection enforcers stop banks from charging overdraft fees based on phantom opt-in agreements. Phantom opt-ins occur when banks claim they have customers’ consent to charge overdraft fees but there is no proof they actually obtained that consent. Under the Electronic…