AFR submitted a comment letter calling on the CFTC to increase the block trading threshold.

AFR signed onto to a letter along with more than 50 other organizations, urging members of Congress to support full funding for the CFTC.

AFR sent a letter to the SEC and CFTC urging them to hold the line on their definition of swap dealer and not to radically change it.

AFR sent a letter to the House urging members to oppose HR 3527, which would create unnecessary roadblocks to enforcement of derivatives oversight on big Wall Street banks and the financial services industry.

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“It’s par for the course for the GOP-controlled House to pass bills that few people notice and that ultimately go nowhere. But it’s rare for legislators to join hands across the aisle to roll back parts of President Obama’s signature legislative achievements. That’s what happened on Monday, when the House passed two little-noticed bills that changed the derivatives rules under the Dodd-Frank Act. … But critics of the bills, like Americans for Financial Reform, believe that the legislation could make substantive changes to Dodd-Frank that would increase risk and instability in the marketplace.”