I don't know if you missed the news for the passer 8 years but millions of people got bad loan contracts, a lot more white people than black. But per capita black people got them a lot more. When they say 200k black people got worse than white people, try understanding what that means. Try to make sense of it. the article was very poorly written, I knew about most cases and I nearly couldn't recognize them if it wasn't for them numbers. Just an example, Bank of America didn't make those 200k loans, it was that disgusting company Countrywide that BofA bailed out with help from the usgov.
And hundred million dollar fine? That's nothing. JPM paid 2 billion in fine for not reporting Madoff and 13 billion for their ABS practices, Goldman paid half a billion for lying to a local German bank, Deutche paid 2.5B for rigging an interbank index and I can go on. Please believe me, this is my field if anything. They pay fines, don't have to go to court and don't have to admit that they did anything wrong. That's how shyt works, basically they are just splitting the profits of their dirty business with the government (and sometimes the victims). It's like if I hit a transport or move crack, make a million bucks in profit and get fined for 250k and don't have to admit that I did anything.
Anyways, that still has nothing to do with what he said. Often subprime was less than 5 % of their total loan portfolio, discrimination cases of those 5 % significantly less. So yes a vast majority of us with sufficient profiles receive normal loans.
These are banks we are talking about here, they only see green. As we have seen no matter if it's drug money, dictator money, uranium, shyt even terrorism. Their bonus, them not getting dropped etc is linked to the amount of money the bank makes.
Of course you might meet racist loan officers just like there's racists everywhere even in congress, but that's not something they fukk with. Some of these companies have 250k employees and shyt. They tried to fool people, the "less knowledgeable" you were the higher the probability, which is why Hispanics had the highest probability of getting bad loans in comparison to white people. They pressed them the hardest then blacks, and then white people, on average.