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Are you ready? Increasing regulation for small business lenders

Abrigo

Kavita Shelat, a member of Baker Donelson’s Financial Services Group in Memphis, advises financial institutions in her article HMDA Data for Small Business Loans? Unlike mortgages, small business loans tend to be too variable, with each loan having many unique aspects, to allow for a meaningful aggregate analysis.

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Regulation and Compliance: Ready for Review

Independent Banker

The better prepared, the less likely they are to run afoul of the continually shifting regulations. Regulators and industry consultants agree that community banks are generally doing a great job handling their regulatory oversight and requirements. Be aware of existing or emerging risk concerns. in Kent, Ohio. Virginia B.

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CFPB issues annual fair lending report

CFPB Monitor

One of those actions is an action brought jointly with the DOJ and OCC against Trustmark National Bank (TNB) which alleged TNB engaged in lending discrimination by redlining predominantly Black and Hispanic neighborhoods in Memphis, Tennessee.

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Rebeca Romero Rainey: Community bankers take the high road

Independent Banker

As policymakers continue to review financial services regulations, the largest banks are working to roll back rules that were designed to mitigate the risks they pose to the financial system. I’ll be traveling to Memphis to visit Vining Sparks and CRA Partners. Where I’ll be this month. Rebeca Romero Rainey President and CEO, ICBA.

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Our Meatless Future: How The $90B Global Meat Market Gets Disrupted

CB Insights

The drink has run into some problems, including a recent ban in Canada, where regulators said it does not meet all the specific requirements for meal-replacement products. Memphis Meats aims to decrease the cost of lab-grown meat in order to compete with commercial meat. Investors back lab-grown meat.

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Diversity assessment and remedial measures required by CFPB consent order

CFPB Monitor

Department of Justice of charges that the bank’s mortgage lending practices violated the Equal Credit Opportunity Act and Fair Housing Act by redlining majority-minority neighborhoods in the Memphis MSA and illegally discriminating against African Americans in the underwriting and pricing of certain mortgage loans.

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Four Months into 2016 and Only Two Bank Failures

American Banker

When state and federal regulators closed Trust Company Bank in Memphis, Tenn., on Friday, it was only the second U.S. bank failure this year.

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