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These community development-focused banks need tailored regulations to expand their purpose in helping underserved areas.

A proposal to modernize the Community Reinvestment Act could be just a snippet of what regulators try to accomplish as they wrap up 2019.

The Comptroller of the Currency said the Federal Reserve had disagreements with the metrics of a pending proposal to revamp the Community Reinvestment Act.

The FDIC and the Fed have yet to sign on to the plan; this year’s managing director class includes fewer overall, but a higher percentage are women.

The tech giant’s plan to offer checking raises concerns about how it will use customer data; third quarter loan originations were the second most on record.

After others have hinted the three bank regulators may part ways on a Community Reinvestment Act proposal, Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell told lawmakers a “common answer” is the ideal outcome.

The three federal bank regulators usually try to issue rules jointly, but Comptroller of the Currency Joseph Otting on Tuesday pointed to areas where the agencies may move on separate paths.

CIT Group has agreed to lend and invest the money mostly in California as well as in the eight states where Mutual of Omaha Bank has branches.

Complaints that banks, credit unions and nonbanks compete on an uneven playing field should be heard, just as community banks must take seriously the threats from high-tech rivals, says Julie Stackhouse, a retiring supervision official at the St. Louis Fed.

Readers cast doubts on regulatory attempts to jointly revamp the Community Reinvestment Act, react to Democrats berating the CFPB head, an upcoming House hearing with Facebook's CEO and more.

The three federal bank regulators often say they want to work together to reform the Community Reinvestment Act. But once again, a senior official has raised the possibility the agencies will move separately.

Readers react to whether the next presidential debate will discuss banking, how California's financial policies are bleeding into other blue states, suggested reforms to the Community Reinvestment Act and more.

Regulators should consider online lending and a list of what loans qualify for CRA credit in any revamp of the outdated law.

McCrady, the driving force behind the Pittsburgh bank's $500 million investment in early childhood education and development, is the Community Impact honoree selected as part of the Most Powerful Women program.

The factors that drive small banks to accept acquisition offers and the impact those decisions have on their communities must be better understood, according to the Fed’s Michelle Bowman and the FDIC’s Jelena McWilliams.

Julieann Thurlow says Reading Cooperative Bank in Massachusetts is well positioned to help immigrants and millennials. Technology is crucial to serving both groups, she says.

Thurlow recognized that if she wanted to get serious about reaching the unbanked in her community, she needed to meet people where they were. That meant providing financial products they actually need and giving them access in their native language.

Native American tribal leaders are hoping foreign banks might step in to provide added assistance if regulators act on a plan leaders have put forward to designate Indian country as its own area under the Community Reinvestment Act.

Next up for BB&T-SunTrust: deciding where to unload branches; how the Trump administration would reform Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac; why the CFPB's payday rule is in the hands of a Texas judge; and more from this week's most-read stories.

Readers strongly react to whether the CFPB should have a say on bank mergers and if tribal areas should have special CRA credit, debate whether banks are embracing enough technology and more.