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OCC stops efforts to find and stop discrimination in banking

July 1, 2025

OCC stops efforts to find and stop discrimination in banking

The OCC announced that it has stopped using disparate impact theory in fair lending examinations. It will now only recognize overt acts of discrimination by banks and ignore acts that do not have a discriminatory intent but still result in an unfair outcome.
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