Bringing you a visual representation of your lending activity to help you uncover potentially discriminatory lending patterns.
We help you manage your CRA and Fair Lending risk by mapping your loan activity, identifying areas of gaps and related risk, and determining your loan penetration within underserved and minority communities in your market area.
Subtle changes in demographics and minority populations within your market area may go unnoticed, especially if your bank has expanded into new regions.
Failing to analyze and understand such changes, not understanding residents’ credit needs, and offering loan products unsuitable for the population can open you to risks.
You don’t want to be that bank and suffer reputational and financial harm because of a knowledge gap. Not understanding your banks’ lending patterns within your market area and inadequate marketing and outreach efforts could inadvertently lead to discriminatory lending practices.
We bring you the tools and talent to allow you to visualize your loan activity and show how you can adjust it accordingly.
Using mapping software, we provide a visual picture of your lending patterns and demonstrate neighborhoods or communities that may have been excluded or have limited lending activity.
By incorporating your lending data — loan applications, originations, and denials — we uncover your bank’s lending trends and gaps and pinpoint unseen biases.
After our analysis, you have a complete picture of your lending area and patterns, insight into whether your lending practices are sufficient, and strategies to improve credit access.
TCA gives you A Better Way to map your loan activity and accurately plan how to address your community’s credit needs.
Key deliverables include:
- Providing maps to allow you to make more intelligent and strategic lending decisions
- Helping you identify and proactively respond to population shifts in your market areas
- Identifying areas where residents face unequal access to credit
- Guiding you in enhancing your lending outreach and effectively meeting the credit needs of underserved communities and people from low-to-moderate income and minority backgrounds
Additional Fair Lending Topics
CRA Public File Is No April Fools’ Joke!
April 1st is known as April Fools’ day, a time to play tricks and pranks. Some historians have noted that April Fools’ Day dates to 1582. It is speculated that the start of the new year had moved to January 1st and people who were slow to get the news and/or continued celebrating the new […]
CRA Asset-size Thresholds Announced for 2019
The annual CRA asset-size thresholds for covered financial institutions were announced on December 20, 2018 applicable for 2019. The cutoff adjustments are based on the change in the CPI (Consumer Price Index) for each 12-month period ending in November, rounded to the nearest million. As a result of the 2.59% increase in the CPI, the […]
Submit Comments to CRA Modernization Initiative
Several staff members of Thomas Compliance Associates (TCA) attended the recent CRA & Fair Lending Colloquium and obtained valuable information from the sessions. One theme that stood out and presenters stressed was that bankers can help shape the re-write of the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) regulation. The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) […]
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