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25Feb2025

Highlights from the FDIC Quarterly Banking Profile Year-End 2024

The FDIC’s “Quarterly Banking Profile” for the fourth quarter of 2024 reveals the financial performance and condition of FDIC-insured institutions. The report indicates the banking industry experienced strong earnings and increased domestic deposit growth during the year. Asset quality metrics generally remained favorable, even with some weakness in specific loan portfolios like non-owner occupied commercial real estate. While […]

20Feb2025

CFPB Shake-Up: Five Key Action Items for Lenders in Early 2025

Lenders, especially those dealing with HMDA reportable loans, face an uncertain regulatory landscape due to the recent shake-up at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). To navigate this period, Premier Insights encourages clients to stay informed and proactive. Drawing on insights from the October Research webinar, “CFPB’s Shake-Up & It’s Impact on You” and from […]

19Feb2025

Telling Your Bank’s Story: Analyzing Redlining Risk Beyond the Data

With respect to fair lending scrutiny, redlining remains a critical concern for financial institutions. While data analysis is essential, a comprehensive understanding of redlining risk requires banks to look beyond the numbers. “Telling your bank’s story” involves proactively assessing policies, practices, and community context to ensure effective management of fair lending risk. Redlining, a form […]

13Feb2025

Mitigating Risk Through Data and Relationships: A Guide for Financial Institutions

In today’s complex regulatory environment, financial institutions face increasing scrutiny and risk. This is especially true in areas like fair lending. To navigate this successfully, it is crucial to adopt a data-driven approach, combined with strong collaborative relationships. This post explores key strategies for mitigating risk based a collaborative approach. The Power of Understanding The […]

07Feb2025

Fair Lending Exam Preparation Checklist

Preparing for an upcoming fair lending examination can be stressful and time consuming. One of the main challenges is knowing what to focus on and how examiners may approach the examination. Each exam can be different, with a number of factors influencing an examiner’s approach, expectations, and focal points. Below is a quick, broad checklist […]

10Jan2025

Governor Bowman’s Thoughts on Bank Supervision and Regulation

During a recent speech, Federal Reserve Board Governor Michelle Bowman addressed new approaches toward bank regulatory policies. These policies seem to adopt a more conciliatory tone towards banks. Below are the key points. The full speech can be found online here:https://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/speech/bowman20250109a.htm

22Oct2024

Recap of Presentations at Mississippi Bankers Association Compliance Conference 2024: Data, Data, & (SB1071) Data

Last week, our President, Dr. Brandon Roberts, PhD, spoke on three different topics central to understanding and addressing fair lending risk management in today’s environment. From the changing regulatory landscape to specifics on gathering, maintaining, and understanding lending data to the imminent implications of SB 1071, read on for a recap and resources to learn […]

04Oct2024

Join Us at the MBA Compliance Conference 2024

We are excited to announce that our founder and President, Dr. Brandon Roberts, will be delivering three insightful talks at the upcoming Mississippi Bankers Association Compliance Conference on October 18th, 2024. These sessions promise to shed light on critical aspects of fair lending and compliance, drawing from Dr. Roberts’ extensive experience and expertise in the […]

27Sep2024

Marginal Industry Weaknesses Evident Despite Higher Earnings

The FDIC’s September 5, 2024 quarterly report of bank earnings reflected an increase from the previous quarter, however assets quality weakened and the number of banks declined by 29. Chairman Gruenberg urged caution, commenting, “Uncertainty in the economic outlook, market interest rates, and geopolitical events, along with continuing weakness in some bank loan portfolios, pose significant […]

20Sep2024

Untangling The Overdraft Conundrum

Concern over overdraft fees has been voiced by regulators for over a decade. The agencies, and in particular the CFPB, have focused more attention on this in the past few years, urging banks to change their practices in regard to such fees or eliminate them altogether. As a longstanding practice for banks, and for many […]