Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB)
As Federal Eviction Protections Come to an End, CFPB Warns Landlords and Consumer Reporting Agencies to Report Rental Information Accurately
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) released an Enforcement compliance bulletin reminding landlords, consumer reporting agencies (CRAs), and others of their critical obligations to accurately report rental and eviction information. Inaccurate rental and eviction information on a tenant screening report or a credit report can unfairly block a family from safe and affordable housing. As the federal eviction moratorium and other pandemic rental protections come to an end, the CFPB wants to protect families from being denied housing on the basis of inaccurate information. The CFPB’s bulletin is part of its ongoing commitment to a fair and equitable recovery.
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC)
OCC Announces Organizational Changes
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) today announced structural changes intended to enhance the agency’s efficiency and effectiveness. The agency is realigning its Economics, Supervision System and Analytical Support, and Systemic Risk Identification Support and Specialty Supervision units under a new Senior Deputy Comptroller for Supervision Risk and Analysis. Blake Paulson will move from the Chief Operating Officer position to take on this new role. The agency is retiring the Chief Operating Officer role. As a result of this change, agency bank supervision units (Bank Supervision Policy, Midsize and Community Bank Supervision, Large Bank Supervision, and Supervision Risk and Analysis) and the Office of Management will report directly to the head of the agency.
National Credit Union Administration
NCUA Board Proposes Complex Credit Union Leverage Ratio
The proposed rule would modify the NCUA’s capital adequacy regulation and provide a simplified measure of capital adequacy that federally insured credit unions classified as complex can opt into. The new Complex Credit Union Leverage Ratio (CCULR) gives complex credit unions that maintain a minimum net worth level and meet other qualifying criteria a streamlined framework to manage capital in their institutions. As long as a credit union in the CCULR framework maintains the minimum net worth ratio, it would be considered well capitalized. Under this proposal, the minimum net worth level under the CCULR framework would initially be 9 percent on January 1, 2022, and this level would gradually increase to 10 percent by January 1, 2024. Using December 31, 2020, financial performance data, the NCUA estimates that most complex credit unions would be able to meet the CCULR’s initial net worth requirement of 9 percent.
FDIC Issues Proposed Rule Regarding Deposit Insurance Simplification
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) today issued a proposed rule to simplify aspects of the agency’s deposit insurance coverage rules.
First, the proposed rule would simplify deposit insurance coverage for deposits held in connection with revocable and irrevocable trusts by merging these two deposit insurance categories and applying a simpler, common calculation to determine coverage for all trust accounts. Currently, the FDIC receives more inquiries related to deposit insurance coverage for trust deposits than all other types of deposits combined. The proposal would make the trust rules consistent and easier to understand for bankers and depositors, and also would facilitate prompt payment of deposit insurance by the FDIC in the event of an insured depository institution’s failure.
Additionally, the proposal would amend the rule that governs coverage for mortgage servicing accounts to allow principal and interest funds advanced by a mortgage servicer to be included in the deposit insurance calculation.
