ABA Toolboxes & ABAWorks Guides

Developed to help you deal with the challenges facing our industry, ABA's Toolboxes and ABAWorks resource guides offer vital assistance in key areas of compliance, operations and security. Better yet, these FREE Members-Only resources are available online 24/7 for your convenience.

ABAWorks on RESPA  Revised August 2010
The guide is designed to assist mortgage lending and compliance staff with properly completing the new Good Faith Estimate and HUD-1 forms required by the new RESPA disclosure rules. It also provides bank executives with important background information on the new RESPA rules and forms.
ABAWorks on Commercial Real Estate  Revised February 2010
The New Commercial Real Estate Guidance: What It Means and How to Prepare for the Next Examination provides a section-by-section analysis of the agencies' final Guidance on Concentrations in Commercial Real Estate Lending. Updated in 2010 to reflect guidance on loan workouts, it also includes worksheets and case studies to help your bank prepare for the next examination.
ABAWorks on Regulation Z   Revised September 2009
ABAWorks on Regulation Z: What the New Rules on Mortgage Lending and HOEPA Mean to Your Bank will help you understand and make decisions about whether and how to offer "higher priced loans" under the new requirements. Since some prime loans will now qualify as higher priced, this ABAWorks will help you to reorganize your compliance framework to ensure compliance with the new regulation.
Toolbox Cover Records Management Toolbox  Revised June 2009
The first eight tools include guidelines for managing both paper and electronic records. Tool No. 9 adds an easy-to-use guide for developing detailed requirements for records management systems. It provides requirement checklists addressing all principles discussed in the first eight tools, and features "Going Green" explanations on how a requirement may be configured to help the bank become more environmentally friendly.

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