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
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.
Keep State Attorneys General on the Predatory Lending Beat Oppose Amendments to Further Preempt State Authority Dear Senator, We write on behalf of an unprecedented coalition of more than 250 national, state and local groups who have come together to reform the financial industry. Members
VOTE NO ON THE SHELBY CFPA SUBSTITUTE NO INDEPENDENCE, NO FUNDING FOR ENFORCEMENT, NO ENFORCEMENT OVER ANY BANKS NO AUTHORITY TO PROTECT FAMILIES Dear Senator, We write on behalf of the over 250 member organizations of Americans for Financial Reform to urge a No Vote
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,
The Honorable Chairman Dodd Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs United States Senate Washington, DC 20510 April 9, 2010 Dear Chairman Dodd, The over 250 consumer, employee, investor, community and civil rights groups who are members of Americans for Financial Reform (AFR) are writing
United States Senate Washington, DC 20510 May 3, 2010 Re: Letter of support for the Prohibition against Federal Government Bailouts of Swaps Entities Dear Senator: The over 250 consumer, employee, investor, community and civil rights groups who are members of Americans for Financial Reform (AFR)
April 30, 2010 United States Senate Washington, DC 20510 Dear Senator: Americans for Financial Reform is a coalition of more than 250 consumer, employee, investor, community, labor and civil rights groups. Consumer Federation of America is a non-profit association of more than 280 groups that,
April 29, 2010 The Honorable Bill Nelson U.S. Senate Washington, D.C. 20510 Dear Senator Nelson: We are writing on behalf of the undersigned organizations to express our strong support for your amendment to strengthen the credit rating agency reform provisions of S. 3217. Your amendment