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Truth-In-Lending Manual: Text and Forms
Sweeping new revisions of the Truth in Lending Act create significant compliance challenges—let us help you stay on top of the changes!

With Clarks’ Guide to Electronic Check Collection: Check 21, Image Exchange & Electronic Check Presentment, Barkley and Barbara Clark provide you with the legal and practical information you need to keep up with this rapidly changing landscape. The authors emphasize the management of fraud risk and bring new light to topics such as remotely created checks, ACH, and the comparative legal framework for these different payment systems.

In these tough and constantly changing economic times, bank deposits and payment systems continue to be vitally important to the stability of the financial services industry. For in-depth analysis of federal and state legal developments plus expert guidance in plain English on topics like managing fraud risks and maximizing deposit-side fee income, The Law of Bank Deposits, Collections, and Credit Cards, by Barkley Clark and Barbara Clark, is the authoritative reference tool.

Keep up to date with the latest developments in privacy and data security law:
Privacy and Data Security Law Journal.

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Find answers to today’s most pressing corporate security questions with Corporate Security Desk Reference.

The evolution of the USA PATRIOT ACT, updates to the National Money Laundering Strategy, and ongoing initiatives by the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) highlight the need to maintain a strong BSA/AML program at your institution. Pratt’s BSA/AML Update keeps you up-to-date with recent developments and helps ensure that you have the information you need to comply with the ever-changing requirements.

With identity theft increasing, check fraud continuing to lose millions for the industry, and information system breaches happening almost daily, bankers need a reliable source that critically analyzes these major issues. Pratt’s Bank Fraud & IT Security Report is that resource.

An "Instant Classic" from E-Commerce Experts
Raymond T. Nimmer and Holly K. Towle bring you their unparalleled expertise in the ground-breaking new treatise, The Law of Electronic Commercial Transactions.

The financial crisis is jeopardizing all kinds of secured transactions and securitizations. Shoring up distressed assets and enforcing security interests inside and outside bankruptcy are crucial concerns for lenders, counsel, underwriters, and securities specialists. Written by noted experts Barkley Clark and Barbara Clark, The Law of Secured Transactions Under the Uniform Commercial Code has been the number one resource on secured transactions for over 25 years. This valuable treatise synthesizes important developments under the Uniform Commercial Code, Bankruptcy Code, and related laws that affect secured financing.

Brady on Bank Checks, the leading publication on bank checks, provides easy-to-use information to ensure that all your transactions involving bank checks and commercial paper are handled properly under current case law and in compliance with all applicable regulations.

Federal Fair Lending and Credit Practices Manual provides easy reference to the myriad federal laws and regulations beyond the Truth in Lending Act that regulate fair lending and credit practices for practitioners representing lending institutions and other entities that extend credit to consumers.

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The Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008 signed into law.
Rebuilding the Mortgage Lending Market: Changes in Legislation, Regulation & Policy
A new comprehensive resource that will keep you updated on changes in mortgage laws and regulations as they are proposed, adopted and implemented

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Mortgage Banking

Mortgage Banking Guidance
Increased legislative and regulatory scrutiny of lending practices makes it more crucial than ever to stay informed about federal and state law changes. A.S. Pratt & Sons is your best source for guidance on compliance and management issues that affect your business every day.

Stay on top of the regulatory changes that will affect mortgage lending this year with our Manager’s Guide to 2008: Satisfying Changing Requirements.

Pratt's Mortgage Compliance Letter provides you with the most exhaustive monthly coverage of developments in mortgage banking law and regulation, written by the experts at Buckley Kolar, LLP.

Pratt’s RESPA Manual: A Complete Guide to the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act gives you complete guidance and work tools on complying with RESPA and Regulation X. Written by James Pannabecker and David Stemler.

Pratt’s Mortgage Lending Compliance with Federal and State Guidance, by James Pannabecker— expert analysis and interpretation of the federal regulations plus state-by-state coverage of key mortgage lending laws.

Secondary Market Residential Mortgage Transactions: Business and Legal Strategies, by Karen Gelernt-- the most comprehensive guide available for buying and selling mortgages in the secondary market.

Lenders engaging in second mortgages and home equity loans need to keep up-to-date with the myriad, rapidly changing state laws and regulations. Pratt's State Regulation of Second Mortgages and Home Equity Loans provides you with the information and guidance you need to comply with state laws and regulations.

See a complete list of Pratt mortgage-related publications here!

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Lenders and their attorneys need to keep up-to-date with changes in the Uniform Commercial Code, especially newly revised Article 9 and Article 5 to avoid legal risk associated with making and drafting commercial loan agreements. The revised Structuring and Drafting Commercial Loan Agreements discusses each change.

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