Amendments to Equal Credit Opportunity Act (Regulation B) Ethnicity and Race Information Collection

The Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection is issuing a final rule that amends Regulation B to permit creditors additional flexibility in complying with Regulation B in order to facilitate compliance with Regulation C, adds certain model forms and removes others from Regulation B, and makes various other amendments to Regulation B and its commentary to facilitate the collection and retention of information about the ethnicity, sex, and race of certain mortgage applicants.

Final rule

Read it on the Federal Register - Oct. 2, 2017

View pdf - Sept. 20, 2017

Proposed rule

Read it on the Federal Register  - April 4, 2017

View pdf - March 24, 2017