AFREF joined Public Citizen and other organizations in a letter to the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) urging the board to strengthen and finalize its proposals to update AS 2405, A Company’s Noncompliance with Laws and Regulations, and AS 2110, Identifying and Assessing Risks
AFREF joined Public Citizen, The Sunrise Project and other partner organizations in a letter to the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision’s in response to its consultation paper Disclosure of climate-related financial risks. “Of particular importance is information related to financed emissions, transition plans, and forecasts.
Americans for Financial Reform Education Fund (AFREF) submitted a comment letter on The Board of the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO)’s Consultation Report outlining a proposed set of Good Practices to promote the integrity and orderly functioning of Voluntary Carbon Markets (VCMs). IOSCO has
Americans for Financial Reform Education Fund (AFREF) led a letter with 13 additional signatories urging the SEC to repropose the stock buybacks disclosure rule to provide investors with information about this widespread yet opaque practice. This important rule was struck down by the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals following a challenge by the Chamber of Commerce.
Americans for Financial Reform Education Fund (AFREF) led a letter with 16 additional signatories urging the SEC to propose a rule requiring public companies to make human capital management disclosures as soon as possible. Investors are in desperate need of consistent, comparable, and decision-useful workforce information.
Americans for Financial Reform Education Fund (AFREF) sent a letter to the Treasury Department outlining principles, scope, and direction for the department’s development of a financial inclusion strategy. Developing a financial inclusion strategy is long-overdue and a necessary step to understand and begin to address the contributions of inequitable access to financial products and services for disadvantaged communities to the persistent racial economic inequality in the United States.
Americans for Financial Reform Education Fund (AFREF) submitted a comment letter to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (“CFTC”) on its proposed guidance for designated contract markets (“DCMs”) on commodity characteristics that should be considered in terms and conditions for the listing of voluntary carbon credit
Americans for Financial Reform Education Fund and Consumer Federation of America, Food & Water Watch, Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, and Public Citizen sent a letter sharing their grave concerns with the justification and potentially calamitous precedent contained in the Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s (CFTC’s) proposed rulemaking for the Investment of Customer Funds by Futures Commission Merchants and Derivatives Clearing Organizations. This proposal would expand the list of permitted investments for customer funds to include foreign debt which could put customers at undue financial risk — avoiding such risk was the rationale for prohibiting these transactions in 2011 after the MF Global meltdown.
View or download a PDF of the letter here. AFREF along with other members of the Save Our Retirement Coalition led a letter in support of the Department of Labor’s Retirement Security Proposal, which would strengthen protections for retirement investors who week professional investment advice.
View or download a PDF of the letter here Americans for Financial Reform Education Fund led 25 organizations in signing on to a letter calling on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) to finalize and strengthen a proposed rule that would address a number of