Creditors, ECOA, Financial Institutions

[Webinar] Compliance Coffee Break - ECOA and/or Fair Lending - June 10th, 2:00 pm - 2:30 pm ET

Hudson Cook, LLP on 6/3/2025

Please join Hudson Cook partners Trisha Cacciola and Patty Covington for an update on the current state of ECOA and fair lending regulation under the new administration....more

7th Circuit Holds ECOA Protections Apply to Prospective Applicants

Ballard Spahr LLP on 7/18/2024

In a major win for the CFPB, in CFPB v. Townstone Financial, a panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit (7th Circuit) recently held that the Regulation B provision prohibiting discrimination under the Equal...more

CFPB Calls for Increased Specificity and Accuracy on Reasons for Credit Denials When Lenders Employ Artificial Intelligence

Troutman Pepper Locke on 9/21/2023

When using artificial intelligence (AI) or complex credit models, can lenders rely on the checklist of reasons provided in Regulation B sample forms for adverse action notices? According to today’s guidance issued by the...more

CFPB extends comment period for RFI on expanding credit access and further protecting consumers from credit

Ballard Spahr LLP on 8/20/2020

The CFPB has extended by 60 days the comment period for its Request for Information (RFI) on how best to create a regulatory environment that expands access to credit and ensures that all consumers and communities are...more

Fifth Circuit Rejects Arguments to Expand Scope of Liability under the Equal Credit Opportunity Act

Troutman Pepper Locke on 2/28/2017

In a published opinion issued February 16, 2017, the Fifth Circuit rejected arguments that would have expanded the scope of liability under the Equal Credit Opportunity Act (ECOA), 15 U.S.C. § 1691 et seq., for lenders, or...more

84 House members urge expedited CFPB action on small business lending data collection rules

Ballard Spahr LLP on 9/1/2015

84 House members recently wrote to the CFPB to urge it to expedite rulemaking to implement the small business lending data requirements of Dodd-Frank Section 1071. Section 1071 amended the ECOA to require financial...more

Potential Implications For Financial Institutions After Last Week’s SCOTUS Decision Guaranteeing A Right For Same-Sex Couples To...

Balch & Bingham LLP on 7/2/2015

Today the Southeast Financial Litigation Monitor sat down with Balch Partner John Pickering, member of the Financial Industries Section and leader of the Real Estate, Credit and Commercial Practice Group, to discuss the...more

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