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Article: Home-loan group's deal with HUD worries banks. (fair-lending agreement between the Mortgage Bankers Association and the Department of Housing and Urban Development)
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- American Banker
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- September 13, 1994
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WASHINGTON -- Ban trade group executives are bracing themselves for Wednesday's signing of a fair lending agreement between the Mortgage Bankers Association and the Department of Housing and Urban Development.
Association chiefs have already been urged to sign a mortgage lending "best practices" accord, but they know the government's real offensive will begin after MBA becomes the first group to commit to selling the deal to its members.
However, the other groups will prove a much harder sell.
"I don't think anyone in any of the trade associations will sign something that gives HUD regulatory authority over the commercial banking industry," said Edward L. ...