March 2011      

 

In this Issue                           

Feature Article

Product Spotlight  

Ask the Expert

Fair Lending News

Regulatory Corner

Smart Compliance Blog  

 

 

 

 

 

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June 12-15, 2011  

ABA Regulatory Compliance Conference 

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Feature Article                                                                    

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Your Bank by the Numbers

What is the relationship between policy & statistics?

 

The days of a regulator walking into your bank and conducting a thorough review of a random sampling of accounts is over.  Not that this should come as a huge surprise.  With the abundance of data available, sheer volume of banks affected, and increased scrutiny from legislators and advocacy groups, regulators are leaving no stone unturned.  Instead of reviewing a 10% sample of accounts by hand, they may review your whole portfolio through regression analysis.   How does this impact your bank?


Read on 

 
 
Product Spotlight                                                                                                                        

You have just recently filed your 2010 HMDA LAR data and regulators will be reviewing it to check for possible lending compliance infractions. Do you know what your 2010 HMDA LAR data says about your Fair Lending program? 

If the answer is NO you can easily change it to YES. Click HERE to learn more about the TruPoint Fair Lending Report using your 2010 HMDA LAR.  Don't push your luck, be prepared with real insight.   

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Ask the Expert                                                                                                                            

by Pamela J. Perdue, CRCM

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Q.  Has the Dodd-Frank Act (DFA) changed the way we collect and report HMDA data?

 

A.  Not yet, but it will.  Section 1094 of the DFA amends HMDA in several ways.  DFA authorizes the newly-formed Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB or the Bureau) to write regulations to implement these changes.  Until the CFPB does so, HMDA reporters are in limbo. Read more 

 

Fair Lending, HMDA & CRA News                                                                                               

 

carrying bindersStudy finds 62% drop in home mortgages to minorities

Despite growing fair lending regulations, disparities continue to exist.  

denverpost.com, 02/10/2011    

 

Two banks told to improve

Wisconsin regulators' demand tells a cautionary tale.  

JSonline.com 02/28/2011 

Regulatory Corner                                                                                                                      

 

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Risk and all that surrounds it causes Jeff Gerrish to update his guidelines for the bank director. 

American Chronicle, 02/2011  

 

Time for a Separate Regulatory Tier for Small Banks

American Banker makes a compelling argument for distinguishing legislation based on bank size. 

American Banker, 01/26/2011

 

 

The Director's Job

Smart Compliance Blog                                                                                                             

 

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The Role of the Compliance Officer Today ... part soothsayer, part counselor, part sage


A recent article by Joe Adler in the American Banker magazine titled "Is Dodd-Frank Undercut by Missed Regulatory Deadlines?" got me to thinking about how difficult the job of being a bank compliance officer has become today. 

 

Adler points out that it is the lawmakers' ambition to complete 170 new laws by July of this year.  Really ... 170 new laws by July?  Does anyone in Washington really believe this is possible?  Keep reading 

 

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