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Banks are only assessed for CRA compliance where they have physical branches

Ben Loehle · 1587 Why Banks Pay Him $2k/year To Help Serve Lower Income Community Members · Nov 28, 2019 · at 6:05

Ben Loehle, CEO of Find CRA, explains Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) compliance requirements to host Nathan Latka.

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“Banks, they're only assessed where they have brick and mortar branches.”

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The claim, plainly

Under Community Reinvestment Act regulations, banks are only assessed in geographic areas where they maintain brick-and-mortar branches.

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Assessment

As of November 2019, Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) regulations jointly enforced by the OCC (12 CFR Part 25), the Federal Reserve (12 CFR Part 228), and the FDIC (12 CFR Part 345) under the 1995 regulatory framework required assessment areas to be delineated exclusively around physical deposit-taking facilities (main offices, branches, and deposit-taking ATMs). Regulators did not permit standalone assessment areas where an institution lacked a physical facility, meaning lending conducted entirely outside physical facility geographies was not subject to standalone geographic assessment area evaluations. Subsequent efforts to introduce non-branch assessment areas (such as deposit-based or retail lending assessment areas) were not proposed or finalized until late 2019 and later years.

Under 12 CFR §§ 25.41, 228.41, and 345.41 in effect in November 2019, assessment areas were required to include the geographies where the bank maintained its main office, branches, and deposit-taking ATMs.
Regulators did not permit standalone assessment areas in geographies where a bank lacked a physical facility, regardless of lending volume in those areas.
Interagency proposals and rules to assess banks in geographies without physical facilities (such as deposit-based assessment areas and Retail Lending Assessment Areas) were only introduced post-November 2019.

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[1] consumercomplianceoutlook.org [2] occ.gov [3] ecfr.gov [4] sullcrom.com [5] occ.gov [6] learncra.com [7] occ.gov [8] fdic.gov

CRA assessment area 12 CFR 25 41 November 2019 CRA assessment area regulations 1995 deposit taking ATM branch main office CRA regulations assessment areas retail lending outside assessment area 2019 Community Reinvestment Act assessment areas branch based OCC Fed FDIC 2019 "wholesale or limited purpose" assessment area "main office, branches" CRA "surrounding geographies in which the bank has originated or purchased a substantial portion of its loans" "assessment area" CRA

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