Americans for Financial Reform Education Fund (AFREF) submitted a comment letter supporting a Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s advanced notice of proposed rulemaking (ANPR) to provide relief to victims of coerced debt
Americans for Financial Reform Education Fund submitted a comment in support of the Federal Trade Commission’s proposed 6(b) study of large-scale single family home investors and the Commission’s plan to publicly disseminate information about homes owned by “mega investors,” defined as entities that own over 1,000 single family rental homes.
AFREF and 36 partners led a letter urging the Department of Treasury’s Federal Insurance Office (FIO) to swiftly release the homeowner insurance data that the National Association of Insurance Commissioners collected from over 330 insurers representing over 80% of the property and casualty market while also urging FIO to swiftly release a robust report analyzing the data.
Americans for Financial Reform Education Fund, joined by 9 signatories, submitted a letter to the Securities and Exchange Commission strongly endorsing the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board’s (PCAOB) proposed standards. The standards would require firms to disclose standardized and comparable metrics that facilitate cross-firm comparisons and assessments of audit quality, providing critical data for investors to make informed decisions. The letter highlights that requiring consistent and comparative metrics will reduce opportunistic disclosures, simplify audit committee oversight, and foster a data-driven approach to regulation and audit quality.
Americans for Financial Reform Education Fund led and submitted a letter to the National Credit Union Administration (NCUA) on the agency’s draft 2025-2026 budget. It urges NCUA to appropriately dedicate funding to support credit unions on climate-related financial risk mitigation, climate resilience, and providing safe, equitable
The Americans for Financial Reform Education Fund (AFREF), along with 37 labor unions, investors, and advocacy organizations, submitted a comment letter to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) in support of their proposal to strengthen regulations under the Change in Bank Control Act (CBCA).
The Americans for Financial Reform Education Fund led a letter of 10 signers urging the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to reject an application for a novel exchange traded fund (ETF) that would allow retail investors to invest in the $1.7 trillion private credit market. Several larger institutional investors have already taken losses in the private credit market and the letter warns how the presence of an institutional investment manager still fails to mitigate concerns around valuation, conflicts of interest, and suitability.
Today, 38 labor unions, investors, and advocates submitted a letter to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) in support of a proposed rule that would increase oversight of asset managers with substantial voting power in banks. The proposal would bolster FDIC oversight when asset managers gain control of over 10 percent of voting securities of bank holding companies with FDIC-supervised subsidiaries.
AFREF submitted a comment letter supporting the National Consumer Law Center’s petition urging the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to define residential real estate leases as “credit” and landlords as “creditors” under the Equal Credit Opportunity Act. This petition for rulemaking addresses important components of the ongoing legacy of structural racism in credit and residential housing for people of color seeking rental leases to shelter their families and build a foundation for economic stability.
AFREF, Consumer Federation of America, Prof. Arthur Wilmarth, Jr. and Center for Responsible Lending submitted a comment to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation supporting the effort to strengthen the oversight of industrial loan companies (ILCs). The proposed rule would heighten scrutiny of new ILCs or attempts to take over existing ILCs that will more fully consider the unique risks of these banks.