CDFIs

At a minimum, federal lawmakers should fully fund the Community Development Financial Institutions Fund and support the CDFIs that provide economic opportunity where it is needed most.

Atlanta's Westside neighborhood is one of the most underbanked regions in the country, but a new collaboration between Equifax and the National Federation for CDCUs aims to tackle that head on.

A Trump administration budget proposal to end federal funding for community development financial institutions would push small businesses to high-risk, high-cost lenders.

Credit unions have long been the beneficiaries of the Community Development Financial Institution grant program and are loathe to see it nixed.

Comptroller of the Currency Thomas Curry on Wednesday expressed support for community development financial institutions, even as the Trump administration is seeking to cut all government funding for them.

The Trump administration is seeking to immediately shut down the Treasury Department’s grant programs for community development financial institutions.