Gender discrimination

Senate Democrats' bill would ban discrimination in financial services

10/21/20

The legislation would extend to the banking system the Civil Rights Act's protections for customers of hotels and restaurants.

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OCC official: We want to be diversity role model for banks

10/05/20

Any regulator or bank should build from a foundation of diversity, dignity and respect, says Grovetta Gardineer, the agency's head of national bank supervision policy.

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HUD’s disparate impact rule is a ‘get out of jail free’ card

10/02/20

The bar to prove discriminatory patterns is so high that plaintiffs would have slim odds of winning lawsuits against housing providers.

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Better data is key to beating bias in small-business lending

08/05/20

The increased use of technology, along with holistic data points, can eradicate racial and gender disparity for fintech lenders in small business, says Become’s Eden Amirav.

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CRA reform amid coronavirus would fuel discriminatory lending

04/20/20

Minorities are often hit harder financially during a crisis, but if regulators move forward on revamping the Community Reinvestment Act, they’ll only make matters worse.

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Don’t ditch disparate impact

03/04/20

Attempts to rewrite the method for determining unintended discrimination in housing should not bleed into fair-lending laws.

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CFPB's Kraninger commits to finalizing small-business lending rule

02/27/20

CFPB Director Kathy Kraninger promised to complete the rule mandated by Dodd-Frank one day after a California court set a process for doing so.

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CFPB forced to complete small-business lending rule

02/26/20

After dragging its feet, the agency has agreed to a court-supervised process for writing a Dodd-Frank-mandated rule aimed at stamping out discrimination.

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House lawmakers at odds over requiring banks to report diversity data

02/12/20

A study by the House Financial Services Committee on the industry’s efforts to hire and promote more women and minorities has sparked a dispute over whether banks should have to be more transparent about those efforts.

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'Getting out of the boys' ecochamber': Male allies in banking

01/20/20

Doug Nielson at U.S. Bank and Jane Barratt at MX explain how men can be more supportive of their female colleagues.

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