community development lending and cra 2008 nc affordable housing conference october 16, 2008 bonita...
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Community Development Lending and CRA
2008 NC Affordable Housing ConferenceOctober 16, 2008
Bonita IrvingDistrict Community Affairs Officer
Office of the Comptroller of the Currency
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Topics to be Covered
• 2005 Changes to the CRA Regulation
• 2007 Proposed Changes to Interagency Questions and Answers
• Emerging Issues
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• Changed small bank size to < $1 billion
• Established new category of banks – “intermediate
small banks”
• Expanded the definition of community development
• Addition of illegal credit practices language
Changes to the Regulation - 2005
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CD Definition – Effective September 1, 2005
• Affordable housing for low- or moderate-income individuals
• Community services for low- or moderate-income individuals
• Activities that promote economic development by financing small businesses/farms
• Activities that revitalize or stabilize –
– LMI geographies
– Designated disaster areas
– Distressed or underserved nonmetropolitan middle-income geographies designated by the agencies
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• List of Distressed and Underserved Geographies available
on FFIEC Website (www.ffiec.gov/cra)
– Reviewed and updated by the agencies annually and posted
to the website
– FFIEC geocoder identifies if address is in
distressed/underserved geography
• One-year lag period in effect for the calendar year following
the date of removal from the list
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“Distressed” Geographies
Distressed Nonmetropolitan Middle-Income Geographies:
• Meet one or more of triggers for:
− Unemployment rate
− Poverty rate
− OR
− Population loss or net migration loss
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What Qualifies as Community Development?
Activities that revitalize and stabilize distressed
nonmetropolitan middle-income geographies by:
– Helping to attract new, or retain existing, residents and
businesses (including by providing jobs) or is part of bona
fide plan to revitalize or stabilize the geography
– Providing long-term direct benefit to entire community,
including low- and moderate-income individuals and
neighborhoods
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“Underserved” Geographies
Underserved Nonmetropolitan Middle-Income Geographies:
• Based on population size, density, and dispersion
• Population so small, thin and distant
from a population center that is has difficulty
financing essential community needs
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What Qualifies as Community Development?
Activities that revitalize and stabilize underserved
nonmetropolitan middle-income geographies by:
– Meeting essential community needs, including the needs of
LMI individuals
– Facilitating the construction, expansion, improvement,
maintenance, or operation of essential infrastructure or
facilities for health services, education, public safety, public
services, industrial parks or affordable housing
• The infrastructure or facility must serve LMI individuals and must provide a long-term direct benefit to entire community, including LMI individuals and neighborhoods.
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What are Designated Disaster Areas?
• Major disaster area designated by federal government
• List of FEMA-declared disaster areas available on FEMA’s
website (www.fema.gov)
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What Qualifies as Community Development?
• Activities that revitalize and stabilize designated disaster
areas by:
– Helping to attract new, or retain existing, residents and
businesses (including by providing jobs) and is related to
disaster recovery - or be part of bona fide plan to revitalize or
stabilize the geography
• Must provide a long-term direct benefit to the area
• Greater weight to those activities that benefit LMI
individuals and areas
• Must be provided within 36 months following the date of
designation – however, this may be extended
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• Issued for comment on July 11, 2007
• Proposed nine new Qs & As
• Substantive and technical revisions to some existing Qs & As
• Comment period closed on September 10, 2007
• Interagency group continues to work to finalize
Proposed Interagency CRA Q&As
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Minority- or Women-Owned Institutions Q&A
• Proposed New Q&A § __.12(g) – 4
• Addresses activities of a majority-owned institution with a minority- or women-owned institution or low-income credit union (“MWLI”)
– Participating institution will receive positive CRA consideration even if minority- or women-owned bank is not in its assessment area
– Consider capital investments, loan participations, and other ventures
– Must help meet credit needs of the communities in which minority- or women-owned institutions or low-income credit union are located
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Minority- or Women-Owned Institutions Q&A
Examples:
– Making a deposit or capital investment
– Purchasing a participation in a loan
– Loaning an officer or providing other technical expertise to assist an “MWI” in improving its lending policies and practices
– Providing financial support to enable an “MWI” to partner with schools or universities to offer financial literacy education to members of its local community
– Providing free or discounted data processing systems, or office facilities to aid an “MWI” in servings its customers
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Retail Loans as CD Loans at ISBs Q & A
• Proposed New Q & A §__.12(h) – 3
• Addresses the treatment of retail loans that meet a community
development purpose in ISBs
• Such loans can be considered as either:
-Retail (home, business, or farm) ----- Lending Test
-Community Development (meet CD definition) ----- CD Test
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• Proposed New Q&A § __.22(a)(2) – 4
• Provides examples of other loan data
– Loans funded for sale to secondary markets not reported under HMDA
– Unfunded loan commitments
– Letters of credit
– Commercial and consumer loans
– Set-aside loans that don’t meet the primary CD purpose
– Business/farm loans secured by residential real estate
– LOC increases over the CRA loan limit
Examples of Other Loan Data Q & A
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• Proposed New Q&A § __.22(a)(2) – 6– Consider and report amount of participation purchased
• Proposed New Q&A § __.42(b)(2) – 4
– Use entire amount of lead loan to determine if participation purchased is a small loan to a business or a CD loan (over $1MM cutoff for large banks
• Proposed New Q&A § __.42(b)(2) – 5
– Report CD loan renewals and refinances
• Proposed New Q&A § __.22(a)(2) – 7– How to report small business/small farm loan
refinances when residential real estate is taken as an abundance of caution
Participations, Renewals, and Refi Qs & As
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New Examples of Economic Development
• Proposed Revision Q&A § __.12(g)(3) -1
• Adds the following examples of entities in which investments in or loans to will be presumed to promote economic development:
– Rural Business Investment Company (RBIC)
– New Markets Tax Credit-Eligible Community Development
Entity (CDE)
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New Examples of CD Loans
• Proposed Revision Q&A § __.12(h) -1
• Adds the following examples of loans to:
– Financial intermediaries including New Markets Tax Credit-eligible CD Entities (CDEs)
– Businesses, in an amount > $1 million, when made as part of the SBA’s 504 Certified Development Company program
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New Examples of Qualified Investments
• Proposed Revision Q&A § __.12(t)
• Adds the following examples of investments, grants,
deposits or shares in or to:
– Financial intermediaries (including New Markets Tax Credit-eligible CD Entities)
– CD venture capital companies that promote economic development by financing small businesses
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New Examples of CD Services
• Proposed Revision Q&A § __.12(i) – 3
• Adds the following example of:
– Increasing access to financial services by opening or maintaining branches or other facilities that help to revitalize or stabilize a LMI geography, designated disaster area, or a distressed or underserved nonmetropolitan middle-income geography
• unless has been considered in the evaluation of the institution’s retail banking services under the Service Test
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National or Regional CD Fund Q&A
• Proposed New Q&A § __.23(a) – 2
• If make a loan or investment in national or regional CD
fund:
– Should demonstrate that the investment meets the geographic requirements of the CRA reg by:
• Benefiting one or more of the institution’s AA(s) or a broader statewide or regional area that includes the institution’s AA(s)
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Emerging Issues – Foreclosures and CRA
• Examples of CD Services added to existing Q&A ___.12(i) – 3: “What are examples of community development services?”
• Credit counseling to low- or moderate-income borrowers in avoiding foreclosure on their homes
• Providing foreclosure prevention programs, including loan modifications and restructurings, to low- or moderate-income borrowers who are facing foreclosure
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Emerging Issues – Foreclosures and CRA
Example of lending programs added to existing Q&A ___ .22(a) – 1: “Are there types of lending activities that help meet the credit needs of an institution’s assessment area(s) and that may warrant favorable consideration as activities that are responsive to the needs of the institution’s assessment areas?”
• Establishing loan programs that provide relief, for example, through loan refinancings, restructures, or modifications, to homeowners who are facing foreclosure on their primary residences
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Proposed Amendment to the CRA Regulation
• CRA consideration for community development activities that revitalize and stabilize middle-income geographies that are significantly impacted by the foreclosure crisis
Emerging Issues - Foreclosures and CRA Reg
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Emerging Issues – Demographic & Economic Trends
• Unemployment
• Neighborhood Stabilization Initiatives
• Preservation of Affordable Rental Housing
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