Recently, AFR partners at the Council of Institutional Investors and Investors Working Group sent these letters regarding derivative reform to the Senate.  The letters focus on the failures of the current regulators and the need …

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
DATE: February 3, 2010
Americans for Financial Reform, the Commodities Markets Oversight Coalition Band Together to Put Cops Back on the Futures and Derivatives Beat, Close Loopholes That Fostered Financial Meltdown
Washington, DC – Business …

Unregulated derivatives trading were a major cause of the economic crisis and loss of homes, jobs and retirement savings.
Inadequate regulation of derivatives was also a major contributor to last years energy price bubble.
The volume of …

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Chairman Lincoln, Ranking Member Chambliss, and Members of the Committee, thank you for inviting me to testify before you today. The American people clearly sense that there is something deeply …