Credit union services debate intensifies, national collaboration ends bank-payday lender partnership between Brickyard Bank and Check N' Go, community development banks thrive, State Farm Bank practices critiqued. MAF Bancorp investigated for fair lending violations.
Woodstock Institute staff visits Illinois congressional delegation, seminar helps non-profits court bank partners, underserved communities offer banks new customers, and a new book released on the fair banking movement.
OCC predatory lending premption, small business lending analysis, CDFI impacts in lower income communities, and Woodstock Institute's 30th anniversary.
Stories include: New Document Sets Strong Goals for Chase, Preserves Influence of CRA; Woodstock to HostCommunityReinvestment Conferencein Brazil; New Woodstock Study Finds Subprime Loans Lead to Neighborhood Foreclosures; Woodstock Meets with Comptroller of the Currency Officials on CRA; Regulators Break Ranks on ‘Small’ Bank Definition in CRA; Broad Support for New Payday Lending Laws.
Social Security lifts millions out of poverty, Woodstock Institute host international conference in Rio de Janeiro, Marva Williams wins Tom Gobby award.
