 Amerant announced today that the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency OCC, in evaluating the banks Community Reinvestment Act CRA performance, granted top ratings in all three performance tests: Lending, Investment and Service. The Bank has achieved an overall Outstanding rating since 2000. The Lending Test rating is based on the excellent level of community development CD lending with Amerant being a leader in CD lending, the good geographic and borrower distribution of lending and a substantial majority of the Banks loans being in the assessment areas. 