Letters to Regulators: AFREF Comment Letter on CFPB Task Force RFI
AFREF comment letter opposing the formation and work of the CFPB Task Force on Federal Financial Law.
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In The News: Advocates Condemn Rent-a-Bank Rule that Encourages Predatory High-Cost Loans
Consumer advocates slammed the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) for its final rule issued today that encourages online non-bank lenders to launder their loans through banks so they can offer high-cost triple-digit loans in states where such loans are illegal. The rules were strongly opposed by a bipartisan group of attorneys general as well as by numerous community, consumer, civil rights, faith and small business organizations, and may face legal challenges.
News Release: Congress Must Impose Conditions on Bailouts to Protect Workers
We write on behalf of the undersigned organizations to urge you to include conditions in the next COVID-19 response legislation that require all organizations that receive federal financial support to retain workers, preserve workers’ rights, and institute policies and procedures to protect workers from exposure to the virus.
Joint letter: CARES Act must include conditions for all companies that receive Federal financial support
The next COVID response legislation, must include clear conditions for all companies that receive Federal financial support that require worker retention and protection as well as limitations that ensure that government money will not be used to profit corporate insiders and Wall Street speculators.
Letter to Congress: Coalition Urges Support for the CORE Act
We strongly urge that Congress strengthen the oversight and anti-corruption measures over the $3 trillion and growing Coronavirus relief legislative programs. Our organizations represent broad and diverse constituencies across the ideological spectrum concerned about the potential for fraud, waste and abuse of the nation’s largest spending packages in history.
News Release: Consumer, Banking Groups Applaud Bill to Exempt Economic Impact Payments From Garnishment
Consumer groups and banking industry organizations joined together today to support bipartisan legislation that would prevent Economic Impact Payments from being subject to garnishment.
Joint Letter: Letter to CFPB Asking for Suspension of All Regulatory Activity Unrelated to COVID-19 and Greater Consumer Protections During the Pandemic
Letter from over 90 groups calling on the CFPB to stop all regulatory activity unrelated to COVID-19 and take greater steps to protect consumers during the pandemic.
News Release: OCC Pursues Weakening of CRA Despite COVID-19 Impacts
Before the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, black homeownership was already at historically low levels nationwide and the racial wealth gap was widening, leaving communities of color with far less wealth and fewer resources for emergencies. COVID-19 has been particularly devastating for African-Americans, low-income families, and immigrants, who are bearing the brunt of the resulting economic fallout as well.
Letter to Regulators: AFR Education Fund Opposes Ineffective Rules to Control Commodity Speculation
The AFR Education Fund sent this letter to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission opposing new rules that would be ineffective in preventing speculation in energy and agricultural commodities. A pdf of the comment can be downloaded here: AFR Education Fund Comment on Position Limits Proposal
In The News: How the COVID-19 Bailout Gave Wall Street a No-Lose Casino (Rolling Stone)
In place of a heartless free market of panicked investors who might want to cut their losses and sell, the plan is to simulate real buying and selling of financial products like mortgages and bonds with directed deployments of the Fed’s endless trillions. And they will be endless … Marcus Stanley of Americans for Financial Reform said, “The Fed’s perspective on this is, they want to create normalcy.” But what does “normal” mean in an economy that may be changed forever?