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
Trump’s CFPB Drops Case Against Repeat Offender TransUnion For Bait-and-Switch Subscription Hustle TransUnion deceived millions into signing up for hard to cancel monthly subscriptions By Christine Chen Zinner Last week, the CFPB dropped 5 pending enforcement cases against companies that swindled or gouged consumers that
Trump’s CFPB Litigation Capitulation Amounts to Pardoning Corporate Wrongdoers Seven dropped cases would have helped people who were ripped off in financial transactions By Christine Chen Zinner Last week, the day the nominee for the Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) was testifying
As Christine Chen Zinner, a senior policy counsel at the nonprofit Americans for Financial Reform, pointed out in an interview, the agency has been politically under siege since its creation. “We have a bad feeling about the direction that it’s going,” she said. “This is an agency that was created after a devastating financial crisis because there were regulatory gaps.”
As climate-fueled disasters escalate, insurers are getting richer while leaving Americans in the lurch. Citing climate-related losses, many insurance companies are exorbitantly inflating rates, refusing to renew policies, and delaying, denying, or underpaying claims.
At the behest of the new Trump-appointed leadership, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has abandoned an enforcement case against megabank Capital One, a step that will cost consumers $2 billion in restitution.
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.
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.
In a webinar hosted by Americans for Financial Reform Education Fund (AFREF) and The Horizon Project, leading labor and state officials laid out strategies to protect public pensions from federal attacks and deploy state pension power to grow a strong economy for retirees, workers, and the public.
In a letter sent to Congress today, more than 20 state and national groups raised alarms over two bills — the STABLE Act in the House and the GENIUS Act in the Senate — that attempt to create a new regulatory framework for so-called stablecoins.