Click here to view this week’s highlights and lowlights in Wall Street Reform – January 28, 2012 – February 3, 2012.

Nine public interest organizations sent a letter to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, asking the agency to reject the Carlyle Group, L.P.’s attempt to insert forced arbitration language into its registration statement for its initial public offering. The inserted language both limits shareholders’ rights and weakens the agency’s oversight abilities.

AFR sent a letter to members of Congress asking that they oppose HR 3461, the “Financial Institutions Examinations Fairness and Reform Act.” This legislation would tilt the playing field further in the direction of industry interests and tie the hands of regulators attempting to protect the public interest.

AFR signed onto a comment letter to the CFPB with 21 organizations recommending that they expand their excellent proposal to create a public database for credit card complaints to include actual complaint narratives, and suggestions to make it easier for researchers and the public to access the data as a pre-purchase tool to avoid problems and to help identify where troubling trends lie.

(Comments drafted by Consumer Action)

Click here to view this week’s highlights and lowlights in Wall Street Reform – January 21, 2012 – January 27, 2012.

“Asked to evaluate Cordray’s performance, John Carey, spokesman for the consumer coalition called Americans for Financial Reform, said: ‘There are reasons that Director Cordray received a wide range of support, across the political spectrum, from those that know and worked with him in Ohio. He is fair, tough and thoughtful, and those traits were on full display yesterday.’”