External Outreach and Minority Affairs:
OCC Highlights

• Comptroller Dugan Addresses the Interagency Minority Depository Institutions (MDI) National Conference (PDF).
  • View this photo essay (PDF 272KB) on the agency's participation in the MDI conference and other summer 2008 conferences.
    
    
• OCC's Senior Deputy Comptroller for Mid-Size and Community Bank Supervision will meet with minority bank representatives at the National Bankers Association's 81st Annual Convention, on October 6, 2008.
  
  
• OCC's Senior Advisor for External Outreach and Minority Affairs will serve on the "Importance of Minority Banks" panel at the Black Economic Council's 3rd Annual Urban Economic Conference, on October 9, 2008.
  
  
• The OCC's EOMA unit will exhibit at the 38th Annual Legislative Conference sponsored by the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, in Washington, DC, September 24 - 27.
  
  
• FY 2009 CDFI Program: Registration for Application Workshops Now Open. (PDF)

Look for information on the OCC's updated policy statement on minority-owned national banks.  This update to the OCC's 2001 policy statement will reflect the agency's stronger position regarding the preservation of a robust and healthy minority-owned national bank sector and the creation of new minority-owned national banks.