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Banks typically allocate 1-2% of Tier 1 capital to CRA investments

Ben Loehle · 1587 Why Banks Pay Him $2k/year To Help Serve Lower Income Community Members · Nov 28, 2019 · at 4:11

Find CRA co-founder and CEO Ben Loehle discusses capital benchmarking heuristics used by commercial banks to meet Community Reinvestment Act standards.

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“The act does not stipulate an exact percentage, but banks will often look at about to do about a one to two percent of their tier one capital in a community investments to meet their CRA requirements.”

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The claim, plainly

While the Community Reinvestment Act does not require a specific percentage, banks typically allocate 1% to 2% of their Tier 1 capital to community investments to satisfy CRA requirements.

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Assessment

The claim contains two distinct assertions: (1) that the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) does not specify an exact statutory percentage of capital or assets required for community investments, and (2) that banks typically target approximately 1% to 2% of Tier 1 capital in community development investments to satisfy CRA requirements. Statutory review of 12 U.S.C. §§ 2901–2908 and implementing regulations (12 CFR Parts 25, 228, and 345) confirms that the law and examination rules evaluate investment performance contextually without setting a fixed mathematical quota. Concurrently, banking compliance literature, academic studies, and supervisory examination evaluations confirm that depository institutions routinely use informal benchmarks scaling qualified community development investments to roughly 1% to 2% (or more) of Tier 1 capital when targeting Satisfactory or Outstanding CRA ratings.

12 U.S.C. §§ 2901–2908 and implementing regulations (12 CFR Parts 25, 228, and 345) contain no statutory or regulatory percentage quota of capital or assets for CRA compliance.
CRA performance evaluations and banking compliance industry benchmarks document the standard informal rule of thumb of targeting approximately 1% to 2% of Tier 1 capital for qualified community development investments.

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[1] wikipedia.org [2] ffiec.gov [3] aba.com [4] upenn.edu [5] fdic.gov [6] equalizecapital.com [7] venable.com [8] richmondfed.org

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