Earnings & Losses at Commercial Banks: 2001-2016
Recent FDIC reports have highlighted the stability and growing profitability among the nation’s...
Fair Lending Analysis and Understanding Census Data
In fair lending analysis, one of the most common comparisons is to examine loan files based on race...
Forms of Fair Lending Discrimination: Fees
Lending fees represent a major area of risk among forms of fair lending discrimination. In this...
Forms of Fair Lending Discrimination: Steering
In this series of posts, we address types of fair lending discrimination that are commonly...
Lenders Should Be Aware of Fair Lending Risk as Interest Rates Rise
After being at record lows for nearly a decade, the Fed has raised interest rates three times in...
Forms of Fair Lending Discrimination: Introduction
In an upcoming series of posts we address types of fair lending discrimination that are commonly...
Issues in Regression Modeling For Fair Lending Underwriting Analysis (Part 2 of 2)
In our previous post, we addressed a few frequently encountered issues when using regression...
Issues in Regression Modeling For Fair Lending Underwriting Analysis (Part 1 of 2)
Evaluating loan application outcomes (approval or denial) in the context of fair lending is...
Recent FDIC Supervisory Report Indicates Strong Commercial Bank Loan Growth and Increasing Concentrations
The FDIC recent released its Winter 2016 edition of Supervisory Insights. This edition was focused...
What Does “Statistical Significance” Mean Anyway? Part 2 of 2
In our previous post, we started introducing the concept of statistical significance. We began with...