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Fact Sheet: AFR Fact Sheet to Defend CFPB 1071 Small Business & Farm Lending Transparency Rule

Small businesses and farms are engines for economic growth and household wealth building, but historic inequitable access to credit and financing makes it more difficult for businesses and farms owned by people of color and women to sustain, reinvest, and expand their businesses. Section 1071 of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act requires the CFPB to collect data essential to identify lending discrimination and gaps in access to credit, provide market transparency, and address community credit needs for small businesses and farms. Efforts to repeal, weaken, or undermine Section 1071’s reporting requirements will hurt small businesses and farms, undermine household wealth building, and hurt overall economic growth.

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Blog: What Now? Investors’ Role in Fighting Financial Deregulation

What Now? Investors’ Role in Fighting Financial Deregulation By Meron Lemmi This presidential administration is poised to roll back financial regulations that protect long-term, diversified investors. Both public and private markets face a wave of deregulatory efforts that would weaken investor protections and undermine corporate

News Release: Coalition of Consumer and Investor Protection Groups Strongly Oppose Billionaires’ Bill in Delaware

On February 17, 2025, Delaware lawmakers proposed amendments to the state’s corporate law through Senate Bill 21 or the “Billionaires’ Bill” that would enable billionaires like Elon Musk to raid corporate treasuries at the expense of working people like teachers and construction workers counting on their pensions for a secure retirement. This Billionaires’ Bill was drafted by Elon Musk’s lawyers in secret and far outside the usual procedure for formulating changes to the state’s corporate law, which governs around two thirds of the corporations in the S&P 500. 

Fact Sheet: AFR Factsheet on Legislative Attacks on the CFPB

Congress must vote against legislative attacks on the CFPB, which must remain independent, with a single director and a secure mandatory funding stream. Congress must also protect CFPB rules including the fintech payment app rule, the overdraft fee rule, the medical debt rule, and small business and farm lending transparency rules.