Community Reinvestment Act
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Community Reinvestment Act
Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) - Public File
What is the Community Reinvestment Act?
The Community Reinvestment Act (CRA, P.L. 95-128, 91 Stat.1147, title VII of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1977, 12 U.S.C., subsection 2901 et seq.) is a United States federal law passed by Congress in 1977.
The CRA encourages financial institutions to help meet their communities' needs—through safe and sound lending practices and by providing retail banking and community development services.
Federal regulators monitor whether banks and thrifts are fulfilling their CRA obligations. By law, these federal agencies—the Federal Reserve, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, and the Office of Thrift Supervision—must:
- Regularly review the CRA performance of banks and savings and loans, and
- Take into account the CRA record of a bank or thrift when it applies to open a new branch or merge with or acquire another institution.
In addition, each of the federal agencies works to educate these institutions about successful CRA programs in other parts of the country and suggests other ideas that might help develop the community.
An amendment to the Community Reinvestment Act in 1990 requires that CRA ratings be made public. Each bank or thrift must maintain a public file that contains the public section of its most recent CRA performance review, a list of its services and branches, written comments from the public, and certain other information.
Comments or Questions
If you have comments or questions about Reliance State Bank's CRA Public File, contact: Reliance State Bank, 606 Broad Street, Story City, Iowa 50248
Written Comments
All written comments received from the public for the current year and each of the prior two calendar years that specifically relate to the bank's performance in helping to meet community credit needs, and any response to comments by the bank, will be available in the Public File, if neither the comments nor the response contain a statement that reflects adversely on the good name or reputation of any persons other than the bank of publication of which would violate specific provisions of the law.
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| 1) Written Comments (Received from the public.) |
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| 2) CRA Performance Evalution (A copy of the public section of the bank's most recent CRA Performance Evaluation.) |
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| 3) Branch Information (A list of the bank's branches, their street addresses and census tracts, including hours of operation.) |
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| 4) Opened and Closed Branches (Branches opened and closed by the bank during the current year and each of the prior two calendar years.) |
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| 5) List of Retail Banking Products and Services (A list of services (loan and deposit products, and transaction fees) generally offered at the bank's branches and descriptions of material differences in the availability or cost of services at particular branches, if any. |
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| 6) Assessment Areas (A map of each assessment area showing the boundaries of the area and identifying the geographies contained within the area.) |
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| 7) Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA) Disclosure Statements and HMDA Data Public Notice |
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| 8) HMDA Modified Loan Application Register (LAR) |
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| 9) Loan to Deposit Ratios |
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| 10) Any Other Information the Bank Chooses |
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