playbooks/lending/fair-lending-pre-check-checklist

Fair-Lending Pre-Check Checklist

A pre-decision checklist a loan reviewer runs before a denial or counter-offer is communicated — surfaces fair-lending concerns while they can still be addressed.

fair-lending-pre-check-checklist.mdChecklist · 4 min

Contents

  1. 01Before this decision is communicated

For: Loan reviewers and credit officers

PlaybooksLendingChecklist

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Before this decision is communicated

This template is structured. The working copy is being finalized by our subject-matter editors — directionally accurate today, refined shortly.

  • Decision criteria applied to this applicant match the documented credit policy.
  • Any exception to credit policy is documented with reviewer sign-off.
  • Decision rationale references applicant-specific facts, not protected-class proxies.
  • Adverse-action language has been pre-checked for bias-associated phrasing.
  • Decision is consistent with how similarly situated applicants have been treated.

Lending Playbook

Practice this in the course.

The AiBI-Foundation course walks through the same prompts, with reviewed work you can take to your team.

Fair-Lending Pre-Check Checklist — Lending Playbook — The AI Banking Institute