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DOJ settles another redlining case

CFPB Monitor

The Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that it has entered into a settlement with American Bank of Oklahoma (ABOK) to resolve allegations that ABOK engaged in unlawful redlining in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The DOJ opened its investigation of ABOK after receiving a referral from the FDIC.

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FinTechs Take A Regional Approach To SMB COVID-19 Relief

PYMNTS

Below, PYMNTS rounds up the latest solutions that FinTechs and lenders are developing to ease the PPP lending process for SMBs and FIs alike, with many initiatives focused on enabling regional and community banks to maintain a competitive edge against the biggest banks. Citizens Bank Of Edmond. Funding Xchange, Experian. In the U.K.,

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Who were ICBA’s Top Lenders of 2022?

Independent Banker

Here, we highlight some of last year’s most successful loan producers in the areas of agriculture, commercial and consumer/mortgage lending. The score combines the average of the bank’s percentile rank for lending concentration and for loan growth over the past year in each lending category. By Ed Avis. Methodology. AGRICULTURE.

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Entering the cannabis banking market

Independent Banker

When Oklahoma legalized the sales of cannabis for medicinal purposes in 2018, executives of $550 million-asset Blue Sky Bank in Tulsa, Okla., Our compliance program, based on elevated risk, is very robust. However, the ambiguous legal landscape complicates compliance; 47 states, the District of Columbia and four U.S.

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NY DFS announces multistate investigation of payroll advance industry

CFPB Monitor

In its press release, the DFS claims that the investigation will look into “allegations of unlawful online lending” and “will help determine whether these payroll advance practices are usurious and harming consumers.” Oklahoma Department of Consumer Credit. Maryland Office of the Commissioner for Financial Regulation.

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Bankers: Is your strategy the same as your competitor?

Jeff For Banks

Lending services include commercial loans to small to medium-sized businesses and professional concerns as well as consumers. The Company’s market areas outside of Houston, Dallas, Corpus Christi, San Antonio, Austin and Central Oklahoma are dominated by either small community banks or branches of large regional banks.

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Republicans weigh rolling back anti-ESG law they passed

American Banker

Oklahoma lawmakers are having second thoughts about legislation blacklisting financial firms for their restrictions on lending to oil, gas and coal companies,