2018 HMDA and Fair Lending Underwriting Analysis

As the first quarter of 2018 ends, many compliance officers will be interested in doing a preliminary analysis of their 2018 HMDA data. This blog focuses on how underwriting analysis changes going forward. If you have been doing a thorough analysis, the best advice is...

Helpful Hints About Peer Analysis

In our blog on February 13th, we discussed the importance of conducting a peer analysis to compare a lender’s performance in the context of other lenders in the same market.  This is the only way a given lender’s performance can be said to be above or below...

Why We Love Branch Analysis (And You Should, Too!)

Analyzing branch penetration helps lenders see how many branches are in minority areas.  Several legal cases point to the importance of self-monitoring by conducting a branch penetration analysis showing your branches’ concentration in high-minority areas.  In...