Fair Lending - Do Your Lenders Know the Requirements? 2020 | Total Training Solutions | 24 March 2020 |

Fair Lending never seems to fall out of fashion. While the rest of the industry is focusing on TRID, Flood Insurance and HMDA, the regulatory agencies, the Department of Justice and plaintiff attorneys are focused intently on the issue of fair lending. Large penalties and burdensome enforcement actions are the order of the day.

Occasionally evidence indicates the existence of hate-based discrimination. In most cases the evidences points to ignorance-based discrimination - the lenders truly did not understand they were violating the law; they thought they were protecting the interests of their employer. Understanding the bases of discrimination is the first step to avoiding fair lending violations.

Charges of discrimination can come from any direction. Discrimination can be obvious, subtle or unintended. Risk comes in the form of penalties, regulatory enforcement actions, civil liability, or damage to a bank's reputation, to mention a few. The best defense to these threats and risks is developing and maintaining a sound fair lending compliance management system (CMS). The core of a Fair Lending CMS is a deep understanding of the basic rules regarding Fair Lending.

Covered Topics:
• Basic fair lending concepts;
- Laws and regulations;
- Bases of discrimination;
- Types of discrimination;
• Recent Developments including:
- Agency consent orders;
- Familial Status Discrimination cases;
- Native American Discrimination cases;
- HUD Guidance on Limited English Proficiency
• Pending Developments
- Expansion of Regulation B to include data collection on loans to minority-owned businesses, women-owned businesses, and small businesses; and
- HUD's Proposed Fair Lending Disparate Impact Rule.

Who Should Attend?
The program is designed for the board of directors, senior management, compliance officers, auditors, lending department management, loan operations personnel, loan officers, loan originators and others involved in originating or servicing loans of all types.

2020 Speaker

Jack Holzknecht
CEO, Compliance Resource, LLC