Events Archives - Americans for Financial Reform

Event: Webinar on Crypto Companies’ Unprecedented Election Spending

On October 24, 2024, Americans for Financial Reform (w/ Demand Progress) partnered with Public Citizen to host a webinar entitled “Crypto Companies’ Unprecedented Election Spending.” The webinar featured commentary and analysis from experts and policy makers regarding the outsized spending by crypto billionaires and firms in this year’s election cycle, and the impact such spending has or may have on policy making and consumer financial protection.

Event: Senator Warren, AFR, Celebrate Victory in CFPB Case on Supreme Court Steps

Americans for Financial Reform joined Sen. Elizabeth Warren and other coalition members on the steps of the Supreme Court Thursday to celebrate the Court’s favorable ruling in CFPB vs. CFSA, a case in which the payday lending lobby, with the support of Wall Street, sought to destroy the funding mechanism of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

Events: Alexa Philo, AFR’s Senior Policy Analyst, Joined a Panel for the Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s Energy and Environmental Markets Advisory Committee

Alexa joined the Energy and Environmental Markets Advisory Committee on April 10 to speak to the importance of the regulators’ large bank capital proposals. She explained key parts of the proposal impacting derivatives clearing and why all participants in the commodities derivative markets, whether exchanged traded, cleared, or uncleared, should support the proposals in the interest of a stable, more resilient financial system.

Event: Ranking Member Waters, Professor Anat Admati and Professor Jeremy Kress debunked myths about bank capital at Admati’s book event

Americans for Financial Reform, together with Better Markets, welcomed Anat Admati, Professor of Finance and Economics at the Stanford School of Business, together with esteemed panelist, Assistant Professor of Business Law at Michigan Ross, Jeremy Kress, to discuss the recent update to Anat’s co-authored book, The Bankers’ New Clothes: What’s Wrong with Banking and What to Do about It, which debunks myths about bank capital.

Event: Private Equity’s Attacks on Basic Human Needs

Wall Street private equity firms have experienced exponential growth, accumulating substantial influence across critical sectors of the economy. From corporate landlords displacing tenants to healthcare facilities suffering under private equity ownership, the impact is far-reaching.

Event: Industry legal challenges to the SEC private funds disclosure rule: what’s at stake

Join us on March 14, 2024, at 1:00 PM, as we will examine the widespread harm that all businesses and investors would suddenly face if the Securities and Exchange Commission’s broadly accepted requirements for truthful disclosures and rules protecting investors are overturned by the courts. SEC rules are facing scrutiny in a number of ongoing legal cases.

Event: Reparations: How to Fund Them & Avoid a Wall Street Takeover

Join us for a pivotal fireside chat on March 7, 2024, at 2:00 PM, on the pressing issue of reparations. “Reparations: How to Fund Them & Avoid a Wall Street Takeover” brings together thought leaders Jeremy Bearer-Friend (George Washington University Law), Alvin Velazquez (SEIU), and moderator Ericka Taylor (Take On Wall Street and Americans for Financial Reform) for an in-depth discussion on innovative funding strategies for reparations and safeguarding the initiative from financial industry exploitation.

Events: One Year Later: Lessons from the March 2023 Bank Failures (The Brookings Instution)

Alexa Philo, senior policy analyst, banking, systemic risk, and economic & racial justice at Americans for Financial Reform, participated in the second panel, titled “Resolving Failing Banks.” This panel explored the weaknesses exposed in the current approach to resolving failing banks and potential solutions.

Events: Caroline Nagy Spoke on Rising Insurance Costs for Affordable Housing at the New York Housing Conference

On December 6, 2023, Senior Policy Counsel Caroline Nagy spoke on a panel about rising insurance costs for affordable housing at the New York Housing Conference. Panelists discussed how the limited availability and increasing prices for property and casualty insurance is making it increasingly difficult

Event: Taking Action Against Private Equity in Nursing Homes with Staff to Patient Ratios

In September, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Studies (CMS) issued a rule that would require a minimum staff to patient ratio in nursing homes. This is a historic action by the Biden Administration. However, the ratio must be stronger to protect residents and workers.