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Mapping Banking Data

April 5, 2017 / Comments Off on Mapping Banking Data

Demonstrating the Banking Industry’s Affects on Communities ESI Senior Vice President Lee Huang’s op-ed, How Neighborhoods Could Lose if Trump Succeeds in Rolling Back Bank Reforms, published in Next City demonstrates how reduced access to data could be detrimental to communities across the nation. He makes the case for the transparency and accountability derived from Dodd-Frank as […]

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Changes to HMDA Could Reveal Where Inequitable Banking Practices are Occurring

July 22, 2016 / Comments Off on Changes to HMDA Could Reveal Where Inequitable Banking Practices are Occurring

In recent years, there has been an increased focus on racial inequality and decreasing racial disparities in the US. In Philadelphia and other major cities, many disparities between racial and ethnic groups – particularly wealth and asset disparities, disparities in public goods and services (including public education) and disparities in health outcomes, can be directly […]

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How Fair Are Your City’s Lending Practices?

July 15, 2016 / Comments Off on How Fair Are Your City’s Lending Practices?

Over the past forty years, legislation has been enacted at the federal, state, and local levels to regulate the banking industry and protect individuals against unfair lending practices.  As a result of the Great Recession, financial and housing markets have experienced significant distress, making efforts towards oversight and accountability of particular value. To support this […]

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Annual Philadelphia Fair Lending Study – 2011

April 9, 2013 / Comments Off on Annual Philadelphia Fair Lending Study – 2011

Since 2006, Econsult Solutions, Inc. (ESI) has been retained by the City of Philadelphia to conduct an annual Fair Lending Analysis of the city’s authorized depositories. The study is designed to analyze whether the city’s depositories provide financial products and services in a fair and unbiased manner to the citizens of Philadelphia, in accordance with […]

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Annual Philadelphia Fair Lending Study – 2010

July 11, 2012 / Comments Off on Annual Philadelphia Fair Lending Study – 2010

Since 2006, Econsult Solutions, Inc. (ESI) has been retained by the City of Philadelphia to conduct an annual Fair Lending Analysis of the city’s authorized depositories. The study is designed to analyze whether the city’s depositories provide financial products and services in a fair and unbiased manner to the citizens of Philadelphia, in accordance with […]

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Annual Philadelphia Fair Lending Study – 2009

March 4, 2011 / Comments Off on Annual Philadelphia Fair Lending Study – 2009

Since 2006, Econsult Solutions, Inc. (ESI) has been retained by the City of Philadelphia to conduct an annual Fair Lending Analysis of the city’s authorized depositories. The study is designed to analyze whether the city’s depositories provide financial products and services in a fair and unbiased manner to the citizens of Philadelphia, in accordance with […]

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