Succes in the battle against predatory lending should be of just as a great deal of interest to banks as to community activist arranges a leading community-organization advocate told bankers during a panel discussion at ABA's Regulatory Compliance colloquy in June.

Succes in the battle against predatory lending should be of just as a great deal of interest to banks as to community activist arranges a leading community-organization advocate told bankers during a panel discussion at ABA's Regulatory Compliance colloquy in June.

The lender engaging in the arrange of abusive practices loosely assemblageed under the heading of "predatory lending" are rarely banks. notwithstanding the high visibility of this issue undermines the banking industry's reputation as lender in their communities, said David Berenbaum, senior vice-president and director of civil rights for the National Community Reinvestment Coalition, Washington, DC