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Section 1071 Small Business Lending Fair Lending Analysis
Recently, there has been a lot of buzz surrounding the implementation of Section 1071 for Small Business Lending and its impact on the financial services industry. What we do know is that the CFPB is in the process of writing regulations to implement Section 1071 of the Dodd-Frank Act. ComplianceTech will be ready when it…
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Practical Guidance on How to Monitor and Assess Redlining Risk
This article will highlight a few recent high profile redlining cases and their settlements. Then, we will explain how fair lending software and consulting can help mortgage lenders evaluate their redlining risk. Our tools are guided by the following settlements involving the federal government: ESSA Bank & Trust City National Bank (2023) Lakeland Bank (2022)…
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2021 HMDA Data Now in LendingPatterns™
ComplianceTech Announces the Refresh of the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act Data in LendingPatterns to Include 2021 Data ComplianceTech today announces the refresh of the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA) data in LendingPatterns™ to include the 2021 data as published by the CFPB on March 24, 2022. Using the 2021 HMDA data from every lender in…
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Brief Summary of 2021 Modified HMDA LARs
HMDA Data Summary The total number of rows in the 2021 Modified LARs (25.96 million) and the number of originated transactions (14.89 million), while very high by historical standards, are both around two percentage points higher than the 2020 Snapshot data. What is a more intriguing trend is the apparent consolidation in the mortgage industry.…
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HMDA Data and Strategic Planning for Mortgage Lenders
As a mortgage compliance professional, you know your fair lending responsibility related to HMDA; but I want to go beyond and discuss how to use HMDA data for strategic planning. If you are concerned with corporate growth and development, then you know this is more than a check-the-box exercise. Done with attention and thought, the…
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2021 Year-in-Review of HMDA, Fair Lending, and CRA Developments
As we ring in the new year, it is helpful to recap what has happened in 2021 on three different fronts: HMDA, fair lending, and CRA (the Community Reinvestment Act). I count eight important developments. These are listed in no particular order below: 1. HMDA Filing Instruction Guide (FIG) updates The most recent revision to…
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How LendingPatterns™ helps you make sense of HMDA
HMDA data is both a recurring concern and a useful tool for financial institutions. Banks, credit unions, and independent mortgage companies have to submit HMDA every year or risk the penalties so that all of this data can then be viewable to the public and can paint a useful picture of the overall market. ComplianceTech…
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Maintaining Your HMDA Data Accuracy to Avoid Penalties
When it comes to your client’s data, your main priority should rightly be keeping it secure from any third parties. However, when the time comes to deliver the data and you have accidentally omitted a piece of information, it can have serious consequences for you and your business. Here is a brief update about…
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Five Reasons for Doing a HMDA Scrub
With only a few months left before your March 1 filing, now is a good time to plan the year-end HMDA scrub. The point of a HMDA Scrub is to compare specific data in the loan application register (LAR) to loan origination source systems (LOS) or physical loan documents. There are several reasons why you…
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Analyzing “Not Provided” Race/Ethnicity in HMDA Data Before Submission
An old adage is that statistical analysis can only be as good as the data that goes into it. Garbage in, garbage out. In the realm of fair lending analysis, there is a dilemma that every analyst must deal with, namely, how to handle and analyze HMDA records where race and/or ethnicity are reported as…