Letters to Regulators Archives - Page 11 of 56 - Americans for Financial Reform

Letters to Regulators: Letter to the SEC in Support of its Proposal on Shareholder Proposals

AFREF and allies submitted a comment letter to the Securities and Exchange Commission in support of its proposal to update certain substantive bases for exclusion of shareholder proposals. Shareholder proposals are an important part of our corporate governance system, and in the letter, we encourage the Commission to ensure the full range of benefits of shareholder proposals are taken into consideration when finalizing the rule, including shareholder proposals’ role in identifying, raising awareness, and addressing both company-level and systemic risks.

Letters to Regulators: Letter to FTC in Response to NPRM on Auto Financing

AFR joined a letter to the FTC in response to their Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on auto financing.

Letters to Regulators: Letter to CFPB in Response to Inquiry on Employer-Driven Debt

AFREF joined a letter to the CFPB in response to their inquiry on employer-driven debt.

Letters to Regulators: Comment Letter to the CFPB on Employer-Driven Debt

AFREF sent a letter to the CFPB in response to their Request for Information regarding employer-driven debt.

Letter to Regulators: Comment in Response to ED Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on Prison Education Programs, 90/10 and Change of Ownership

AFREF joined a comment letter in response to the Education Department’s Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on prison education programs, 90/10 and change of ownership.

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Letter to Regulators: Letter to Treasury on How to Increase Transparency in the U.S. Treasury Market”

AFREF sent a letter to the Treasury Department on how to increase transparency in the U.S. Treasury market.

Letters to Regulators: A Roadmap for the Federal Reserve

AFREF sent a roadmap for action to the Federal Reserve.

Letters to Regulators: Groups Call On FDIC To Reject Ford Credit’s ILC Charter Application

AFREF joined the National Community Reinvestment Coalition, the National Consumer Law Center (on behalf of its low-income clients) and the Center for Responsible Lending in sending a letter to the FDIC saying that Ford Motor Company should be denied deposit insurance for its proposed new Ford Credit industrial loan company (ILC) charter.

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Letters to Regulators: Reject TD Bank and First Horizon Bank Proposed Merger

AFREF and CRL led a letter calling for the Federal Reserve and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) to reject a proposed merger between TD Bank and First Horizon Bank.

Letters to Regulators: Letter to the SEC in Response to Request for Comment on Certain Information Providers Acting as Investment Advisors

AFREF sent a letter to the Securities and Exchange Commission supporting its proposal to treat index providers as investment advisers given the many traits of index providers that resemble investment advice.

Such proposals are necessary as index funds have grown to become a multi-trillion dollar industry but one whose decisions to include or exclude issuers from the indices, and which many fund managers must closely follow, remain opaque and feature a number of conflicts-of-interest.