Washington Trust Bank to pay $9 million over discriminatory lending practices

(Reuters) – Washington Trust Bank, the largest community bank in the country, will pay $9 million to settle civil rights charges that it discriminated against primarily Black and Hispanic mortgage applicants, the U.S. Justice Department announced on Wednesday.

(Reporting by Sarah N. Lynch; Editing by Mark Porter)

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