External Outreach and Minority Affairs:
OCC Highlights

Save the date for the 2008 Interagency Minority Depository Institutions Conference, featuring Robert L. Johnson, Founder and Chairman, The RLJ Companies, as keynote speaker (July 16 - 18, 2008) (PDF).
Conference theme: Know Your Business, Grow Your Business
Agency principals from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the Federal Reserve Board, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, and the Office of Thrift Supervision will speak on major issues within their respective agencies (with a focus on Minority Depository Institutions) and provide updates on pertinent bank related regulations and legislation.

The OCC’s African-American affinity group, CARE, spearheads national financial literacy initiative (PDF).
Reverend Dr. Floyd H. Flake serves as keynote speaker for the launch of the initiative. (See video clip) (WMV)
The "Our Communities Count" Financial Education Outreach Initiative—sponsored by the Coalition of African American Regulatory Employees at the OCC—involves nearly 50 volunteers who are delivering financial education presentations to students in middle schools, high schools, and colleges across the country. This outreach effort targets students from 20 U.S. cities.
 

OCC Releases CRA Evaluations For 26 National Banks

Comptroller Dugan Commends Plan to Assist Subprime Borrowers

Comptroller Dugan Urges Action to Help Communities Suffering from Effects of Mortgage Foreclosure Crisis

OCC Closes Douglass National Bank and Appoints FDIC Receiver

• Liberty Bank & Trust Co. Takes Control of Douglass

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency Names Larry Hattix to be Ombudsman
The Office of the Ombudsman is organized around core principles of dispute resolution and customer service. The office seeks to ensure that national banks and customers of national banks receive fair and expeditious resolution of their complaints through two distinct processes within the office. The National Bank Appeals Process is designed to resolve disputes of national banks arising from the supervisory process. The Customer Assistance Group’s focus is to ensure that customers of national banks receive fair treatment resolving their complaints with national banks.

Tim Long and Jennifer Kelly Named to Key Supervision Posts
Comptroller of the Currency John C. Dugan announced that he has named Tim Long to be Senior Deputy Comptroller for Bank Supervision Policy, and that Jennifer Kelly will succeed Mr. Long as Senior Deputy Comptroller for Mid-Size and Community Bank Supervision.

William Haas Named Deputy Comptroller for Mid-Size Banks

OCC Focuses on Low-Income Housing Tax Credit Program

OCC Supports Efforts To Establish A Single, Toll-Free Number for Bank Customers Seeking Regulator Assistance

OCC Issues Bulletins on Fair Credit and Reporting and the Community Reinvestment Act

• Fair Credit Reporting – Accuracy and Integrity of Consumer Report Information and Direct Consumer Dispute Regulations and Guidelines (Notice of Proposed Rulemaking) – (Click here for Proposed Rule) (PDF)
• Community Reinvestment Act: Small Bank Asset Thresholds and Related Regulatory Review: Joint Final Rule – (Click here for Final Rule) (PDF)

Comptroller Dugan Tells Senate that Industry is Fundamentally Sound, Though Credit Market Disruptions and Economic Slowdown Test Banks

Deputy Comptroller for Compliance Policy Ann F. Jaedicke Discusses the Community Reinvestment Act in Testimony before the House Committee on Financial Services

Will Congress Amend the Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery, and Enforcement Act of 1989 (FIRREA) to include the OCC and the FRB?

• Congressional Budget Office Cost Estimate (PDF)
• Public Statements on H.R. 4043

Current Job Openings at the OCC

Low-Income Housing Tax Credits: Affordable Housing Investment Opportunities for Banks (OCC's Community Developments Insights publication, February 2008) (PDF)

OCC Annual Report, Fiscal Year 2007