The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network’s interactive Suspicious Activity Report webpage now includes filing trend data by industry through the 2020 calendar year.
The Farm Credit System’s regulator released updated data on its lending to young, beginning, and small farmers as well as a regulatory plan for the next 12 to 24 months.
The Treasury Department and IRS released details of the second round of Advance Child Tax Credit payments and said they are working on a sign-up tool for mobile devices.
The FDIC said ICBA will be among the teams participating in the agency’s “tech sprint” designed to help banks serve unbanked consumers. ICBA will join the Milken Institute and Sunrise Banks on team iLluMInate.
The Department of Housing and Urban Development and the Federal Housing Finance Agency announced an agreement regarding fair housing and fair lending coordination.
The Treasury Department released revised guidance on its Emergency Capital Investment Program to support minority and community development financial institutions.
The Senate voted down an ICBA-advocated amendment that would have barred the IRS from using funds in a pending spending bill to monitor bank customers’ financial transactions.
Small businesses without employees were most successful in obtaining Paycheck Protection Program funding from community banks and were the most satisfied with the support they received during the pandemic compared to large banks and credit unions.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau updated its Mortgage Servicing Small Entity Compliance Guide to include guidance on the 2021 Mortgage Servicing COVID-19 final rule and the 2020 Mortgage Servicing COVID-19 interim final rule.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau issued an interpretive rule to address certain time-sensitive borrower protections related to the treatment of June 19, 2021 as a business day or federal holiday.
The best way to influence policymakers is to get in front of them in-person, according to the Congressional Management Foundation and the August recess is the best time to schedule an in-district meeting.
