On February 9, at the 2016 CRA Conference in Los Angeles the Comptroller of the Currency, Thomas Curry, announced a draft of a soon-to-be-published proposal to encourage banks to help revitalize “targeted” neighborhoods by engaging in higher loan-to-value mortgages. The…
Do you feel the pressure to reach impossible or ill-defined CRA Performance goals ? How you have constructed your Assessment Area may be your problem! When they construct their Assessment Area most bankers are concerned only about being technically compliant.…
Visualize your market! Computer-generated maps are an exciting opportunity for banks to literally see their markets as never before. It’s one thing to examine a table of the mortgage market in Bridgeport Connecticut and it’s another thing to see a…
Many bankers are not aware that when they have AA’s within one of the eleven “mega” MSA’s they can designate any or all of the MSA as an AA. However, when examiners evaluate their bank’s CRA performance the procedure is…
