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URL Media, July 16, 2025, Press Forward awards URL Media and NCRC $1.25 million to launch low-interest loans for BIPOC publishers; network partners also win funds in competitive open call URL Media and the National Community Reinvestment Coalition plan an expansion of their pilot program, the Media Resilience Fund, to provide low-interest financing to community media, particularly those […]

Real Estate News, February 5, 2025, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau faces new threat  The motivations behind the proposal: Cruz said the CFPB, which is an independent government agency, is “an unelected, unaccountable bureaucratic agency that has imposed burdensome and harmful regulations on American businesses, banks, and credit unions.”  Elon Musk is not a fan either, saying in

Bloomberg Law, January 24, 2025, Wall Street Watchdogs Scrub DEI Pages After Trump Orders (1) Lawmakers also explicitly required financial regulatory agencies to establish the minority and women inclusion offices under Section 342 of the Dodd-Frank Act, with the goal of attracting talent, fostering inclusion, and developing standards to assess diversity policies and practices among regulated entities.

American Banker, November 14, 2024, What would Matt Gaetz as attorney general mean for banks? Regardless of whether Republicans will vote to confirm Gaetz given the allegations against him, his stance as a skeptic of mergers and his previous work investigating banks as part of his House committee assignment shows that the Trump administration is

Black News Portal, April 27, 2024, Breaking The Cycle: Dismantling Systemic Barriers To Minority Funding Op-Ed By J. Byron Brazier Local branches allow entrepreneurs to establish personal, trusting relationships with bankers, and those bonds can be a boon to small-business owners seeking financing. Banks consider “soft information” about business customers’ creditworthiness—qualitative data gathered over the