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On November 15, 2018, FinCEN announced the expansion of the existing real estate geographic target orders (GTO) to include 12 more metropolitan areas. As covered in previous TCA Special Delivery articles, a series of GTOs measures became effective March 1, 2016 which temporarily required certain U.S. title insurance companies in the Borough of Manhattan, New […]

What is all the buzz about customer due diligence (CDD) and enhanced due diligence (EDD)? The expectations for CDD and EDD did not change with the addition of the 5th BSA pillar. The expected due diligence requirements were simply codified. TCA® first addressed this topic in depth in a 2015 article. What does that mean

The Bank Secrecy Act requires banks to manage risks associated with automated clearinghouse (ACH) and international ACH transactions (IAT), which results in a need for effective risk mitigation strategies and monitoring processes. The sheer volume of ACH activity makes the task seem impossible. TCA’s BSA Action Team (BAT) can help evaluate the effectiveness of a

Bankers have had whiplash over the last five years with new regulations, delayed regulations, regulatory relief and changes to new rules within one year from the initial effective date. Now on top of all of the changes, there are two more significant developments. First, compliance examinations have changed and consumer harm is the new hot

Much has happened since the beginning of 2018, especially in the world of HMDA. This is Part 3 in TCA’s series of HMDA articles. Part 1 focused on managing HMDA risk amid reporting uncertainty and Part 2 focused on HMDA reporting for purchased loans. One HMDA data collection change that has surfaced is causing headaches

TCA published Part 1 on August 23, 2018 describing managing HMDA risk amid reporting uncertainty. Shortly thereafter, the CFPB published additional guidance on August 31, 2018, as noted the same day as our Special Release. Due to the HMDA ambiguity and uncertainty, TCA is committed to providing bankers with A Better Way to decipher various

Now that more than half the year is gone, many banks are starting to look more closely at their new 2018 HMDA LAR requirements because they have adequate volume to do testing. TCA wants to share with you what we have found in doing preliminary HMDA LAR validations. Many of the issues we’ve seen are

Exception reporting is not new; all banks are required to report loan policy and loan documentation exceptions for Safety and Soundness. However, a new unwritten rule is fair lending exception tracking covering pricing and underwriting exceptions on consumer loan products. Whether it’s HMDA for banks with less than or more than 500 entries, regulators want

The passing of Senate Bill 2155 adds another level of complexity to an already complex Regulation. The Bill exempts institutions that originate fewer than 500 closed‐end loans or open‐end lines of credit in each of the two preceding calendar years from reporting certain HMDA data points. This “relief” spurred the question, “What and how do

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has issued clarifications to the TILA RESPA Integrated Disclosure (TRID) rules last year. The clarifications are referred to as the 2017 Rule or the Final Rule and were published on August 11, 2017. We are alerting you again, because the mandatory compliance date is October 1, 2018. The CFPB