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Discussion on Prepaid Account Rules Moved to Future Webinar

ALEXANDRIA, Va. (Feb. 21, 2017) – Credit unions will have the opportunity to learn more about the Equal Credit Opportunity Act and its implementing Regulation B during the National Credit Union Administration’s Feb. 28 consumer compliance webinar.

This topic is replacing the discussion on prepaid account rules that was previously announced in January. The topic of prepaid account rules will discussed in depth during a future NCUA webinar.

The webinar will also have staff from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau discussing the requirements, implementation dates and which credit unions are now covered under the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act.

The 90-minute webinar is scheduled to begin at 2 p.m. Eastern. Registration is open here (opens new window). You will use this same link to log into the webinar, and you should allow popups from this website. There is no charge for the webinar.

Participants can submit questions in advance to compliancemail@ncua.gov. The subject line of the email should read, “Fair Lending Issues: HMDA and ECOA Webinar.”

If you have technical questions about accessing the webinar, you can email audience.support@on24.com. This webinar will be closed captioned and then archived online here approximately three weeks following the live event.

Housed within NCUA’s Office of Consumer Financial Protection and Access, the Division of Consumer Compliance Policy and Outreach is responsible for consumer financial protection compliance policy and rulemaking, fair lending examinations, interagency coordination on consumer financial protection compliance matters and outreach.