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Letter Requesting Withdrawal of Rescission Rule
November 16, 2010 – 12:52 pm

November 16, 2010

Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
20th Street and Constitution Avenue, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20551

Re:

Withdrawal Request for the Proposed Truth-in-Lending Mortgage Regulations
(FRB Docket No. R-1390)

Dear Board of Governors:

This letter …

What We Need in the Director of the Office of Credit Ratings
November 12, 2010 – 1:09 pm

Faulty credit ratings played a key role in our nation’s financial meltdown, and now we have chance to ensure that that doesn’t happen again. The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act created the …

AFR Opposes Big Bank Calls for Loopholes in Derivatives Regulation
November 12, 2010 – 12:54 pm

David A. Stawick, Secretary
U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission
Three Lafayette Centre 1155 21st Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20581
Elizabeth M. Murphy, Secretary
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
100 F Street, N.E.
Washington, D.C. 20549
Re: Interpretation of the Definition of “Commercial Risk”
Dear …

AFR Letter on Non-Bank Designation
November 12, 2010 – 12:40 pm

November 5, 2010
Hon. Timothy Geithner, Chairman        Mr. Edward DeMarco, Acting Director
Financial Stability Oversight Council             Federal Housing Finance Agency
and Secretary of the Treasury                         1700 G Street, NW, 4th Floor
1500 Pennsylvania, Avenue, NW                   Washington, DC 20552
Washington, …

AFR Letter on the Volcker Rule
November 12, 2010 – 12:02 pm

Americans for Financial Reform (AFR)

November 3, 2010

Hon. Timothy Geithner, Chairman                 Mr. Edward DeMarco, Acting Director
Financial Stability Oversight Council             Federal Housing Finance Agency
and Secretary of the Treasury                         1700 G Street, NW, 4th Floor
1500 Pennsylvania, Avenue, …