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Another Disparate Impact Lending Accusation Illustrates Importance of Fair Lending Compliance

April 5, 2012
Two fair lending groups say 2011 data collected under the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act reveal that Citigroup, JPMorgan Chase, Wells Fargo and others continued making subprime mortgages last year in a way that had a disparate impact on minority borrowers. Fair Finance Watch said the raw data show that African American borrowers last year were 3.38 times more likely to get a so-called rate-spread loan (1.5 percentage points over Treasury yields) from Citigroup than white borrowers, worse than its 2.25 times disparity rate in 2009. Hispanic borrowers were 2.42 times more likely than whites to get a rate...
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