AFR Conference: Regulating Wall Street – Ten Years Later
Ten Years after the 2008 Financial Crisis, Where Do We Stand? A conference with Sens. Sherrod Brown and Elizabeth Warren and regulators who helped respond.
Category Archives: AFR Conferences
Explore the Regulatory Frontier of Shadow Banking, with Bair, Tarullo, Lawsky & Others
Commercial banks – the traditional focus of financial regulation – no longer stand at the center of the financial system. Broker-dealers, money market funds, asset managers, and insurance companies have become key actors, with the potential to shake the stability of the whole economy. Join prominent experts, reform advocates, and regulators for a discussion of the “shadow banking” system of market-mediated credit and the steps needed to integrate it into a safer and more sustainable financial system.
An Unfinished Mission: Making Wall Street Work for All of Us
“We should not accept a financial system that allows the biggest banks to emerge from a crisis in record-setting shape while working Americans continue to struggle.” – Senator Elizabeth Warren speaking at the launch event for a new AFR/Roosevelt Institute report on the state of financial reform.
“Opening Wall Street’s Black Box” – Pathways to Improved Financial Transparency
After the 2008 crisis, it became clear that regulators and many sophisticated market participants had been kept in the dark about major risks and exposures in our financial system. On October 11, 2013, AFR and Georgetown Law Center co-hosted this half-day conference on the progress made – and the work that remains to be done – toward meaningful transparency on Wall Street.
Back to Basics: Remaking the Financial Sector To Work for Main Street – July 18 Forum
A Policy Forum on the Small-Business Stake in Big-Bank Reform Five years after the 2008 crisis, the financial world remains dominated by a half dozen megabanks which continue to engage in speculative activities for their own enrichment, even as they enjoy the benefits of
STACKING THE DEBT: Consumer Rights in the Financial Marketplace
Mandatory arbitration and its impact on the world of consumer finance was the topic of a Capitol Hill briefing sponsored by AFR, Public Citizen & the National Association of Consumer Advocates.
AFR Conference: Stacking the Debt – Consumer Rights in the Financial Marketplace
Americans for Financial Reform, Public Citizen, and the National Association Consumer Advocates held a briefing on the pervasive practice of mandatory binding arbitration in contracts for credit cards, student loans, payday loans, and assorted other financial products.
AFR Celebrates the First Birthday of the CFPB
AFR sponsored an event celebrating the first birthday of the CFPB with Director Richard Cordray. The even was cosponsored by AFL-CIO, Consumer Action, Consumer Federation ofAmerica, Consumers Union, The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, National Community Reinvestment Coalition, National Fair HousingAlliance, and U.S.PIRG
AFR Conference: Principal Reduction and the Economy
AFR along with Campaign for a Fair Settlement, ESOP, National Community Reinvestment Coalition, and New Bottom Line hosted a conference to discuss principal reduction.
AFR Conference: Principal Reduction and the Economy TODAY June 28
PRINCIPAL REDUCTION AND THE ECONOMY June 28, 2012 2:00 – 5:00 PM Economic Policy Institute, 1333 H Street NW, Washington DC Presented By: Americans for Financial Reform Space is limited, please RSVP to AFRPrincipalReduction@gmail.com According to recent estimates, almost a third of U.S.