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Compliance Action, Volume 19, Number 3

March 05, 2014

HMDA: The CFPB's Ideas (5 Action Steps)

By Lucy Griffin

HMDA, one of compliance's age-old regulations, like most other regulations has evolved with the times. Now in the hands of the CFPB, big changes are coming. The agency has issued a Fact Sheet outlining its plans to improve HMDA.

Action Training
Walking Through the Weeds of FinCEN's Marijuana Rule (Checklist)

By Lucy Griffin

Entering a business relationship with a high-risk entity, such as a legal marijuana business, requires heightened due diligence and effective risk management.

Compliance Notes

Compliance Calendar

In the Editor's Opinion
What is HMDA Supposed to Be?

By Lucy Griffin

Starting out as a fair lending tool and later expanded to help support CRA evaluations, CFPB's intended changes to HMDA significantly alter its purpose.

Compliance Q & A

FinCEN Guidance on Banking Legal Marijuana Businesses

Recognizing the need for legal marijuana businesses to have banking relationships, FinCEN has issued guidance to financial institutions on managing the high risks associated with these accounts.

Executive Guide to Compliance Regulations (Updated)

Executive Director:
Lucy H. Griffin, Esq.
Board of Advisors:
Patti Blenden
John S. Byrne, Esq.
David Battle
Robert P. Chamness
David Dickinson
Phillips G. Gay, Jr.
Barbara Hurst
Robert G. Rowe, III, Esq.
Michael D. Maher
Andy Zavoina

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Bankers' Hotline

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