AFR Letter: Oppose House Appropriations Proposal to Eliminate Budget Independence of CFPB
Read our letter opposing the House Appropriations Committee’s proposal to eliminate the budgetary independence of the CFPB.
Category Archives: Financial Reform News
FTT Conference Call Briefing – Thursday, June 21 10am EDT
Conference Call Briefing Financial Industry Support for Financial Speculation Taxes Financial professionals will discuss how transaction taxes would help put the brakes on Wall Street’s speed demons Thursday, June 21, 10:00am EDT Washington, DC – Americans for Financial Reform will co-host a
AFR Statement on ReFund Transit Coalition’s Swaps Report, “Riding the Gravy Train”
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: June 7, 2012 CONTACT: Erin Kilroy at 202-466-1885 erin@ourfinancialsecurity.org AFR Statement on ReFund Transit Coalition’s Swaps Report, “Riding the Gravy Train” Washington DC – This report does a valuable service in documenting $529 million in annual swaps payments being made by
AFR Letter: Support “The Federal Reserve Independence Act” S. 3219
AFR sent a letter endorsing S. 3219 “The Federal Reserve Independence Act” The bill mandates that the directors of regional Federal Reserve banks be appointed by the Board of Governors, rather than elected by the banks they supervise. It also bans directors or employees of the Federal Reserve from holding stock in the banks they supervise.
AFR Letter: Oppose HR 1588
AFR sent a letter to members of Congress urging them to oppose HR 1588, a bill that would preempt state laws with stronger protections for rent-to-own consumers.
Sign on Letter: Groups Urge Pro-Investor Approach to JOBS Act Rulemaking
AFR signed onto a letter that was sent to the SEC urging them to adopt an investor-friendly approach that protects against the abusive sales practices in the private offering marketplace.
AFR Statement: JP Morgan Losses, Global Derivatives Regulation, and Today’s Speech by Gary Gensler
AFR released a statement on the JP Morgan losses, global derivatives regulation, and the speech by Gary Gensler at the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA.)
AFR Letter: Oppose H.R. 1840
AFR sent a letter to members of Congress urging them to oppose H.R. 1840, legislation that unnecessarily adds over a dozen additional requirements to the already existing statutory cost-benefit requirements for the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). These requirements would effectively paralyze the agency’s rule writing capacity, and make it impossible for the CFTC to implement laws passed by Congress to safeguard our financial system.
AFR Policy Director, Dr. Marcus Stanley, Discusses JPMorgan Trading Mistake on FOX 5 News WTTG
Dr. Marcus Stanley, Policy Director of AFR, discusses JPMorgan Chase’s $2 billion trading mistake on Fox 5 News.
AFR Letter: Oppose HR 1838
Read AFR’s letter opposing HR 1838 here