2011 Midwest Interagency CRA Training Workshops
The Federal Reserve Banks of Chicago, Minneapolis and Saint Louis, the Office of Thrift Supervision (OTC), the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) co-sponsored one or more interagency Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) Workshops taking place in the first and second quarters of 2011 in cities across the Midwest: Chicago, Illinois, Thursday, January 27, 2011; Saint Louis, Missouri, Thursday, March 10, 2011; Madison, Wisconsin, TBD, Spring of 2011.
The purpose of each workshop was to provide CRA officers of small or intermediate banks/thrifts with an overview of CRA compliance reporting and exam preparation; up-to-date information about developing a CRA plan; forming meaningful community development partnerships; determining qualified community development lending, service and investment activity; assessing community needs; and creating a bank's individual CRA performance context.
