For immediate release Contact: Simone Allen (404) 692-5102 May, 11, 2010 Wall Street Dupes Big Business Into Fighting Against Reform End User Coalition Calls on Procter & Gamble, Caterpillar, Apple and Others to Leave Sham Coalition As the U.S. Senate debates measures to hold Wall
May 11, 2010 Re: Oppose Brown-Hagan 3807 & Brown-Gregg 3872 / Co-Sponsor Merkley-Levin Dear Senator: The over 250 consumer, employee, investor, community, small business and civil rights groups who are members of Americans for Financial Reform (AFR) write to express our opposition to attempts to
Protect Investors from Wall Street Abuses: Make Brokers and Swaps Dealers Act in Their Customers’ Best Interests Click here for a pdf version of this letter. The recent hearing in the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations on Goldman Sachs has awakened many people to the extent
Our partners at CMOC (Commodity Markets Oversight Coalition) wrote this letter detailing loopholes that the big banks are trying to slip into the bill under the guise of a fake “derivatives end user” coalition, and clarifies that authentic users of derivatives to hedge have all
As the U.S. Senate debates measures to hold Wall Street accountable for the financial crisis, Commodities Market Oversight Committee (CMOC) supported a letter that hedge-fund manager Michael Masters has written to some of the nation’s biggest businesses asking them explain why they are siding with
Oppose Chambliss Amendment #3816 to Senate bill 3217 which attempts to weaken proposed derivatives regulations Dear Senator: The over 250 consumer, employee, investor, community and civil rights groups who are members of Americans for Financial Reform (AFR) write to express strong opposition to Amendment No.
AFR: Defeat Of Brown Kaufman Amendment Is A Win For The Banks Overall Bill Remains Strong But Big Banks Are Working Day And Night To Weaken It After the first full week of debate on Financial Reform the bill remains strong but the Big Banks
Read FAQs about the SAFE Banking Act here – see page 3 (pdf). Our financial system has become dominated by institutions that are “too big to fail.” Moreover, as FDIC Chairman Bill Isaac has said, they are “too big to manage, and too big to
COMMODITY MARKETS OVERSIGHT COALITION An Alliance of Derivatives End-Users & Reform Advocates May 4, 2010 The Honorable Harry Reid Majority Leader, U.S. Senate 522 Hart Senate Office Building Washington, DC 20510 The Honorable Mitch McConnell Minority Leader, U.S. Senate 361A Russell Senate Office Building Washington,