First-Citizens Bank & Trust Company has settled charges that manually underwritten white borrowers were denied less for mortgages than their non-white counterparts.
A Department of Housing and Urban Development analysis in 2010 of First Citizens’ Home Mortgage Disclosure Act data prompted a complaint filed in 2012.
On applications that were denied by automated underwriting systems, the subsequent manual underwriting provided loan approvals more often for white applicants.
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