endstream endobj The agencies proposed to raise the small asset bank threshold from $346 million to $600 million. << /Names 927 0 R /OpenAction 662 0 R /PageLabels << /Nums [ 0 << /P (0) >> 1 << /P (0) >> 2 << /S /D >> 53 << /S /D >> ] >> /PageMode /UseNone /Pages 893 0 R /Type /Catalog >> NCRC 740 15th Street, Suite 400, Washington DC 20005 | 202 628-8866. << /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>] >> Litigation Support and Expert Witness Testimony, Novogradac Property Compliance Certification, Novogradac Community Development Certificate, Renewable Energy Tax Credit Resource Center, Sign Up For Novogradac Industry Alert Emails, New Proposed CRA Rules a Marked Improvement, But Concerns Still Remain for Community Development Tax Incentives, Solar, Wind Industries Disrupted by COVID-19 Pandemic, Would Benefit from Legislative Action, Understanding OCC, FDIC Proposed Rule Reforming CRA Regulations, July 19, 2022: How to Compare HTC Term Sheets Beyond Price Per Credit, July 12, 2022: LIHTC-COVID Report Insights, June 28, 2022: Valuation Hot Topics in an Ever-Changing Landscape, NAAHLs Roberts Says Proposed CRA Regulations Would Likely Increase Community Development Investment, ESG Investing: Where it is Now; Where its Headed; What to Do, OCCs Final CRA Rule Weakens Affordable Housing and Community Development Incentives. 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. These banks would no longer have community development finance responsibilities, resulting in a loss of considerable amounts of community development finance. 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. from $346 million to $600 million. 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. The recent Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPR) to update Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) rules includes a significant reduction in CRA responsibility for 20% of all banks. 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. latest-news-headlines Likewise, the intermediate small bank (ISB) asset threshold would be adjusted and would range from $600 million to $2 billion. Terms / Privacy / Code of Conduct / DMCA Fed, FDIC reveal 2022 asset-size thresholds for Community Reinvestment Act, Insight Weekly: US bank M&A; low refinancing eases rates impact; Texas crypto mining booms, Making sanctions effective: Key themes for banks, Infographic 2022 Top Tech Trends Shaping Corporations. % Financial institutions are evaluated under different CRA examination procedures depending on their asset-size classification. Likewise, the intermediate small bank (ISB) asset threshold would be adjusted and would range from $600 million to $2 billion. 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. Before the pandemic devastated minority communities, banks and government officials starved them of capital. Beginning Jan. 1, 2020, banks and savings associations that as of Dec. 31 of either of two prior calendar years had assets of less than $1.305 billion are small banks or small savings associations. Numbers and percent of banks that would experience a change in CRA classifications in this pie chart. stream %PDF-1.5 Market Intelligence /marketintelligence/en/news-insights/latest-news-headlines/fed-fdic-reveal-2022-asset-size-thresholds-for-cra-68114912 The Federal Reserve and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. revealed the updated asset-size thresholds used to define a small bank and an intermediate small bank under their Community Reinvestment Act regulations, effective Jan. 1, 2022. 645 0 obj << /Linearized 1 /L 748605 /H [ 5320 634 ] /O 650 /E 121785 /N 59 /T 744463 >> 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. Likewise, 201 banks would be re-classified from large banks to ISB banks. content The banks impacted have been engaging in community development or service provision for several years without any apparent deleterious impacts. << /Type /ObjStm /Length 2497 /Filter /FlateDecode /N 93 /First 845 >> As a result of this proposal, 767 banks that are ISB banks now would be reclassified as small banks. 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. *7H6D9Ne,v. Some Rights Reserved. 647 0 obj Copyright 2022 NCRC. Currently, the ISB asset thresholds range from $346 million to $1.384 billon. These banks would no longer have community development finance responsibilities, resulting in a loss of considerable amounts of community development finance. An intermediate small bank now refers to a financial institution with assets of at least $346 million as of Dec. 31 of both of the prior two calendar years and less than $1.38 billion as of Dec. 31 of either of the prior two calendar years. 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%. A user can click onto the blue and black dots to see which banks in their state have community change classifications. 648 0 obj Below are three charts and maps that provide more statistics about the numbers of these banks and their distribution across the country. xYo)qU]}c; {@XfD(CZhv$65gz~]]]WwlpOhBI.M_LNdrB8;bHC1I4IJ stream endobj Complete the form to download the full report: proposed to raise the small asset bank threshold. nG|Na.K@;GBf <1{1e}$+'tgE_/p!'dF,lxa -1%vJ4Lgv}WsVPI "&t%i#N=l*^O@ Fr^_@'B*11D;h"%LQSam')& jN ' '2$&'%D[>LqNDO)&LU)]I wE Mg&@ r"[ ${2O0I}*$H y|C !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
This chart shows banks changing CRA classifications by large metropolitan area, micropolitan area and rural country. As a result of this proposal, 767 banks that are ISB banks now would be reclassified as small banks.