A Tool for Financial Stability & Economic Recovery Webinar Briefing Sponsored by: AFL-CIO | Americans for Financial Reform | Center for Economic and Policy Research Communications Workers of America | The Main Street Alliance | Public Citizen JUNE 10, 2013 12pm EDT. A Wall Street
Congress and the SEC need to stand firm in supporting the common-sense principle that all those providing financial advice to municipalities must put the best interests of taxpayers first.
Listen to teleconference The derivatives provisions of the Dodd-Frank Act were a crucial element of financial reform, promising to bring serious oversight to the unregulated “shadow banking” markets that helped crash the world economy. Two and a half years later, after much inside-the-beltway debate over
AFR tele-conference explores a major threat to Dodd-Frank derivatives reforms.
“It’s really profoundly immoral to talk about things like cutting Medicare when this policy measure sits in front of us” – AFL-CIO Director of Policy Damon Silvers, speaking at a November 30 briefing on Capitol Hill.
On Nov. 8, 2012, AFR and the National Association of Consumer Advocates co-hosted this free webinar on abusive auto finance practices.
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.
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.
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