Watch AFR’s Policy Director, Dr. Marcus Stanley, discuss the regulation of investment advisers at the Cato Institute’s “Should Investment Advisers Be Regulated, If So, How?” on the second panel.
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 along with Campaign for a Fair Settlement, ESOP, National Community Reinvestment Coalition, and New Bottom Line hosted a conference to discuss principal reduction.
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.
COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS AND FINANCIAL REFORM – May 9, 2012 Presented by: Americans for Financial Reform, Center for Progressive Reform, Economic Policy Institute, Public Citizen AGENDA: PANEL 1: Cost Benefit Analysis and Legal Challenges to Dodd Frank 9:00 – 10:30am Speakers: Dennis Kelleher:
COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS AND FINANCIAL REFORM May 9, 2012 9:00 AM – 12:30 PM Economic Policy Institute, 1333 H Street NW, Washington DC Presented By: Americans for Financial Reform, Center for Progressive Reform, Economic Policy Institute, and Public Citizen Space is limited, please RSVP
View the agenda, watch video, and read supplemental materials from our conference “Executive Pay and the Dodd-Frank Act”
Making the Volcker Rule Work Wednesday, November 9th, 9:30 to 1:00 Location – Hart Senate Office Building, Room 902 Presented By: Americans for Financial Reform Volcker Rule Conference Agenda 9:30 – 10:00: Keynote Addresses Introduction by AFR Executive Director Lisa Donner 9:30 to 9:45:
An AFR congressional briefing regarding how a small tax on financial transactions could raise tens of billions of dollars a year and curb dangerous high speed trading.
Independent Consumer Regulator Or Unaccountable Agency? Prominent Academic Experts Discuss the Powers, Checks and Balances, and Structure of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB)