New Jersey's Big Bet on Disparate Impact: What the AG's New Rules Mean for Lenders and AI — Regulatory Oversight Podcast
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Statistical Significance
Executive Order 14281: The End of Fair Lending Law Enforcement Through Use of the Disparate Impact Legal Theory?
Wild Times for the Community Reinvestment Act
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Fair Lending Shake-Ups: CFPB Vacates Townstone Settlement, FHFA Ends GSEs' Special Purpose Credit Programs — The Consumer Finance Podcast
The FinReg Frontier: AI and Machine Learning in Consumer Finance — The Consumer Finance Podcast
UDAAP and Fair Lending Developments: 2024 Year-in-Review and 2025 Predictions — The Consumer Finance Podcast
Uncovering Disparities: The CFPB's Small Business Lending Study – The Consumer Finance Podcast
Fintech Focus Podcast | Reconciling AI With Fair Lending and Consumer Protection
Consumer Finance Monitor Podcast Episode: State Fair Access and Debanking Laws Bring Country’s Political and Cultural Divisions to the Fore
Redlining Isn’t What it Used To Be
Discrimination and Bias in Residential Lending
Keeping up with all the new regulations
Troutman Pepper Attorneys Update Fair Lending Handbook for the American Association of Bank Directors - The Consumer Finance Podcast
Fair Lending 101 for Debt Collectors - The Consumer Finance Podcast
Corporate Law Report: U.S. Manufacturing, Social Media, Online Endorsements, Hart Scott Rodino, More
On February 2, the OCC released its CRA performance evaluations for 29 national banks and federal savings associations, assessing how well these institutions met the credit needs of their communities, including low- and...more
On February 3, several U.S. senators sent a letter to CFPB Acting Director Russell Vought urging the Bureau to rescind its proposed rule that would end the ECOA’s disparate impact test, which would prevent the CFPB from...more
On December 17, 2025, the New Jersey Attorney General announced that the Division on Civil Rights adopted new rules clarifying disparate impact discrimination liability under the New Jersey Law Against Discrimination. The...more
During the Biden presidency the prudential bank regulators and the DOJ began to prosecute cases of alleged redlining much more aggressively than had been historical practice. A key concept in almost all cases was the idea of...more
In this special crossover episode of Regulatory Oversight and The Consumer Finance Podcast, Chris Willis is joined by colleagues Lori Sommerfield and Matthew Berns to discuss New Jersey's sweeping new disparate impact...more
With the exponential growth of AI technologies, financial institutions must address algorithmic bias head on, as it is one of the most significant emerging issues in certain core activities, including credit underwriting,...more
As 2026 kicks into high gear, all signs point to another year of jaw-dropping headlines as federal financial regulators move swiftly to implement many of the policy changes found in executive orders and other directives...more
State attorneys general (AGs) are among the most active and influential regulators in the U.S., using broad statutory authority, political visibility, and growing technical knowledge to shape policy and enforcement across...more
On January 12, the CFPB received a petition from a nonprofit law firm urging the Bureau to rescind Regulation C, 12 C.F.R. § 1003, and Appendix B to Part 1003. ...more
On December 23, the CFPB released its annual fair lending report, which reviews the agency’s enforcement and supervision activities for 2024 and described a significant policy shift in fair lending oversight since the close...more
In two recent litigation status reports, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB or Bureau) indicated that it is working to issue interim final rules for both Section 1071 and Section 1033 in light of an opinion from...more
On December 1, the OCC released its CRA performance evaluations for 32 national banks and federal savings associations on how well they meet the credit needs in their communities, including low- and moderate-income...more
On November 13, the CFPB published a proposed rule in the Federal Register to amend Regulation B, which implements the ECOA. ...more
In October 2021, the then Attorney General, Merrick Garland, announced the Combating Redlining Initiative (“CRI”) Shortly thereafter, federal banking regulators began a record-breaking number of referrals to the Department of...more
If you are worried about “redlining” you’d better understand statistical significance - The perennial question facing all banks is, “What volume of lending in Majority-Minority census tracts and mortgages extended to...more
On August 25, the U.S. Supreme Court received a writ of certiorari from a mortgage lender (the petitioner) challenging a decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit upholding a jury verdict finding the...more
On April 16, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau released a memo to staff outlining its new supervision and enforcement priorities for 2025. These priorities appear to be intended to reverse some of the more prominent...more
On August 29, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) announced updates to its Consumer Compliance Examination Manual, marking a pivotal shift in how potential discrimination under the Equal Credit Opportunity Act...more
Regulatory Compliance has been an ever-evolving process for decades. But at least the changes have been mostly steady and slow. But during the last 15 years the pace of regulatory change has not only accelerated, but it’s...more
Did you know that U.S. federal regulators issued approximately 173 public enforcement actions against financial services providers in 2024? Over 35% of those enforcement actions resulted in some form of monetary penalty,...more
Recently, two members of the Fed, the Vice Chair for Supervision, Michelle Bowman, and Governor Michael Barr, both spoke on the ongoing challenges and opportunities in advancing financial inclusion across the U.S. Both...more
Join top CRA experts Dr. Ken Thomas, Len Suzio and Dean Stockford for a wide ranging discussion on the Community Reinvestment Act....more
The saga of the CFPB’s section 1071 small business data collection and reporting rule continues. Rise Economy, fka California Reinvestment Coalition (Rise), the National Reinvestment Coalition (NCRC), the Main Street Alliance...more
On July 10, Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell announced a $2.5 million settlement with a student loan company to resolve allegations that its underwriting practices violated the Massachusetts Consumer...more
On July 10, 2025, the Massachusetts Attorney General (AGO) entered into an Assurance of Discontinuance (AOD) with a private student loan lender (the Company), resolving allegations that the Company's underwriting practices...more