NR 96-11
  February 1, 1996
  
         OCC Sponsors Banking and Community Development
                      National Conference
  
  WASHINGTON, DC -- The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency
  (OCC) today announced it will sponsor a national conference
  entitled "Community Development: A Profitable Market
  Opportunity," February 22-23, 1996, at the Hyatt Regency
  Crystal City Hotel in Arlington, Virginia.
  
  Comptroller Eugene A. Ludwig will host the conference, which
  will feature keynote addresses by The Honorable Robert Rubin,
  Secretary of the Department of the Treasury, and The Honorable
  Henry Cisneros, Secretary of the Department of Housing and
  Urban Development.  A list of confirmed participants and
  speakers accompanies this release.
  
  The conference will focus on the profitable business
  opportunities for national banks in the rapidly growing area of
  community development, featuring the latest tools and
  techniques that lenders and others can use to successfully tap
  this market.
  
  Reporters may register in advance for the conference by calling
  the OCC Press Relations Division at (202) 874-5770.  Others may
  obtain registration information by calling the OCC Community
  Development Division at (202) 874-4930.
  
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  The OCC charters, regulates and examines approximately 3,000 national banks
  and 70 federal branches and agencies of foreign banks in the U.S.,
  accounting for more than half the nation's banking assets.  Its mission is
  to ensure the safety and soundness of the national banking system.