On August 28, 2018, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (“OCC”) released an advanced notice of proposed rulemaking (“ANPR”) inviting comments on a revised Community Reinvestment Act (“CRA”) framework. In the ANPR, the OCC described its vision for a new CRA framework that would:
- encourage more lending and investment activity in low and moderate income communities;
- provide more consistency across CRA evaluations and ratings; and
- promote clarity regarding CRA-qualifying activities.
The ANPR requests responses to 31 questions across several topic areas, including the current CRA regulatory approach; a modernized CRA regulatory approach; CRA-qualifying activities; and recordkeeping and reporting.
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