These banks would no longer have community development finance responsibilities, resulting in a loss of considerable amounts of community development finance. Below are three charts and maps that provide more statistics about the numbers of these banks and their distribution across the country. The annual adjustments to the thresholds are based on the average change in the consumer price index for urban wage earners and clerical workers, or CPI-W. For the period ending in November, the CPI-W increased 4.73%.

Numbers and percent of banks that would experience a change in CRA classifications in this pie chart. As a result of this proposal, 767 banks that are ISB banks now would be reclassified as small banks. Based on, REMINDER: CRA Reform Comment Letters Are Due August 5, The Temperature of Disinvestment: Examining Urban Heat Islands and Historically Redlined Communities, Survey Results: NCRC Members Highlight CRA Reform Benefits, But Note Gaps Too, Initial Analysis Of 2021 HMDA Data: The Year ThatHomes Became ATMs Again, University of WisconsinMilwaukee Joseph J. Zilber School of Public Health, University of Richmonds Digital Scholarship Lab. 646 0 obj Likewise, 201 banks would be re-classified from large banks to ISB banks. xcbd`g`b``8 "9A$! "@$-"5@p( ^ d`bl(9J&FO,x7$ These banks would no longer have community development finance responsibilities, resulting in a loss of considerable amounts of community development finance.

stream esgSubNav, Discover more about S&P Globals offerings, Differentiated Data to Make Informed Decisions, New Corporate Realities: Blending Geopolitics, Data, and Digital Transformation, ARIA Resort and Casino, Las Vegas, Nevada. Likewise, the intermediate small bank (ISB) asset threshold would be adjusted and would range from $600 million to $2 billion. These banks would no longer have a service test requiring them to pay attention to the branching and service provision in Low-to-Moderate Income (LMI) communities.

xYo)qU]}c; {@XfD(CZhv$65gz~]]]WwlpOhBI.M_LNdrB8;bHC1I4IJ << /Type /XRef /Length 107 /Filter /FlateDecode /DecodeParms << /Columns 5 /Predictor 12 >> /W [ 1 3 1 ] /Index [ 645 283 ] /Info 187 0 R /Root 647 0 R /Size 928 /Prev 744464 /ID [<459b4e524045afbcb7745fcaf2125faf><2feec0651438bdb701ed3e64b7fdc479>] >> Before the pandemic devastated minority communities, banks and government officials starved them of capital. stream The new study, from the National Community Reinvestment Coalition (NCRC) with researchers from theUniversity of WisconsinMilwaukee Joseph J. Zilber School of Public Healthand theUniversity of Richmonds Digital Scholarship Lab, compared 1930s maps of government-sanctioned lending discrimination zones with current census and public health data. The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, Federal Reserve System and Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation will publish in Mondays Federal Register a joint final rule adjusting asset-size thresholds for small bank/small savings association and intermediate small bank/intermediate small savings association in Community Reinvestment Act regulations. from $346 million to $600 million. endobj Currently, the ISB asset thresholds range from $346 million to $1.384 billon. << /Linearized 1 /L 748605 /H [ 5320 634 ] /O 650 /E 121785 /N 59 /T 744463 >> The agencies proposed to raise the small asset bank threshold from $346 million to $600 million. 647 0 obj %PDF-1.5 Market Intelligence

A small bank now refers to an institution with assets of less than $1.38 billion as of Dec. 31 of either of the prior two calendar years. Banks meeting the small and intermediate small bank asset-size thresholds are not subject to the reporting requirements applicable to large banks unless they opt to be evaluated as a large bank, according to the agencies' news releases. NCRC 740 15th Street, Suite 400, Washington DC 20005 | 202 628-8866. 648 0 obj Lower-income and minority neighborhoods that were intentionally cut off from lending and investment decades ago today suffer not only from reduced wealth and greater poverty, but from lower life expectancy and higher prevalence of chronic diseases that are risk factors for poor outcomes from COVID-19, a new study shows. As a result of this proposal, 767 banks that are ISB banks now would be reclassified as small banks.

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Likewise, the intermediate small bank (ISB) asset threshold would be adjusted and would range from $600 million to $2 billion. The agencies proposal to change the CRA regulations should at the very least expect the same range of reinvestment activity as CRA currently does for all ISB and large banks. content This chart shows banks changing CRA classifications by large metropolitan area, micropolitan area and rural country. Financial institutions are evaluated under different CRA examination procedures depending on their asset-size classification. Copyright 2022 NCRC. !function(){"use strict";window.addEventListener("message",(function(e){if(void 0!==e.data["datawrapper-height"]){var t=document.querySelectorAll("iframe");for(var a in e.data["datawrapper-height"])for(var r=0;r