We are thrilled to announce that our Advocacy and Legislative Director, Renita Marcellin, is a featured speaker at EconCon 2023 (June 8-9). Marcellin is sharing insights on the reasons behind the failure of Silicon Valley Bank and delving into other important topics.
Remarks and Q&A with prominent legal experts on the extreme attempt by the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals to overturn CFPB’s payday lending rule and destroy the funding mechanism Congress created for the agency, a step that threatens to unleash chaos in consumer finance markets and inhibit the agency’s work in protecting consumers.
Americans for Financial Reform and the Take on Wall Street campaign gathered several experts on July 1 to lay out the multiple ugly truths about crypto and addressed a few reasons why we should not take the promises made by its most enthusiastic advocates at face value, and why regulators need to use the authority they already have to oversee this market.
Oscar Valdés Viera, research manager at AFR and Alex Martin, senior policy analyst for climate and finance presented at the annual Consumer Assembly organized by the Consumer Federation of America.
The private equity industry has pumped hundreds of billions of dollars into fossil fuel companies with little scrutiny.
Prof. Olson calls for governments to curb the spread of the private equity industry in health care through regulations and changes to tax laws.