This Week in Wall Street Reform
Click here to view this week’s highlights and lowlights in Wall Street Reform – January 21, 2012 – January 27, 2012.
Category Archives: Financial Reform News
AFR Letter: Reject Harmful Derivatives Bills in House Agriculture Committee
Read our letter to members of Congress urging them to reject HR 1840, 2779, 2586, 2682, and 3527, a series of derivatives bills in the House Agriculture Committee that would severely weaken regulation.
AFR Letter: Don’t Delay in Implementing Corporate Governance and Executive Compensation Reforms
AFR sent a letter to SEC Chairman, Mary Schapiro indicating our objection to the SEC’s decision to delay implementation of Section IX of Dodd-Frank. This will result in the delay of corporate governance and executive compensation reforms necessary to the public interest.
This Week in Wall Street Reform
Click here to view this week’s highlights and lowlights in Wall Street Reform – January 14, 2012 – January 20, 2012.
Wallace Turbeville’s Testimony on Behalf of AFR at House Financial Services Volcker Rule Hearing
Read Wallace Turbeville’s testimony at the House Financial Services hearing on “Examining the Impact of the Volcker Rule on Markets, Businesses, Investors and Job Creation” here.
AFR Comment Letter: Private Student Loans Among Riskiest Ways to Pay for College
Read the pdf of our comment letter to the CFPB regarding private student loans here. January 17, 2012 Ms. Monica Jackson Office of the Executive Secretary Consumer Financial Protection Bureau 1500 Pennsylvania Ave., NW (Attn: 1801 L
This Week in Wall Street Reform
Click here to view this week’s highlights and lowlights in Wall Street Reform – January 7, 2012 – January 13, 2012.
Comment Letter: AFR Signs on to Comment Letter to the OCC Urging Withdrawal of Proposed Bank Payday/Overdraft Guidance
Read the letter that AFR signed onto, urging the OCC to withdraw proposed bank payday and overdraft guidance here.
This Week in Wall Street Reform
Click here to view this week’s highlights and lowlights in Wall Street Reform – January 2, 2012 – January 6, 2012 (also with news from the end of 2011).
AFR Letter: Remittance Protections Must be in Compliance with Dodd-Frank
AFR joined Appleseed and the National Consumer Law Center in urging that the CFPB’s Final Regulations on remittances must deliver on Dodd-Frank’s promise of the new consumer protections and disclosures to protect people sending money overseas.