Credit Union Exam Solutions Presents With Flying Colors

I interview Joe Goldberg, formerly of NCUA, and an expert on ECOA.

ECOA Requires creditors to make decisions related to providing credit and credit terms solely on credit-related factors.

Equal Credit Opportunity Act (1974) –

"The Congress finds that there is a need to insure that the various financial institutions and other firms engaged in the extensions of credit exercise their responsibility to make credit available with fairness, impartiality, and without discrimination on the basis of sex or marital status. Economic stabilization would be enhanced and competition among the various financial institutions and other firms engaged in the extension of credit would be strengthened by an absence of discrimination on the basis of sex or marital status, as well as by the informed use of credit which Congress has heretofore sought to promote. It is the purpose of this Act… to require that financial institutions and other firms engaged in the extension of credit make that credit equally available to all credit-worthy customers without regard to sex or marital status."