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title: Fair Lending & CMS Intersection
description: Discover the Board of Directors' role in ensuring fair lending compliance through an effective Compliance Management System (CMS) in financial institutions.
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# [Fair Lending & CMS Intersection](https://blog.bankerscompliance.com/en/fair-lending-cms-intersection)

 Written by [Jerod Moyer](https://blog.bankerscompliance.com/en/author/jerod-moyer) | Aug 28, 2025 3:55:08 PM

The Board of Directors plays a crucial role in every financial institution. They are ultimately responsible for ensuring an institution is maintaining compliance, operating in a safe and sound manner, etc. Yet, they cannot manage what they don’t know. Your institution’s Compliance Management System (CMS) should be developed and function in a way that your Board can achieve what it is tasked to do. Fair Lending is just one of several requirements where non-compliance carries a lot of potential risks. This means fair lending should be factored in and accounted for within your CMS as a whole.

Jerod explains more in the video.

Published  
2025/08/28

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