Joint Letter: Letter to FHA urging stay on foreclosures during government shutdown
Letter to FHA urging stay on foreclosures during government shutdown
Category Archives: Letters to Regulators
Joint Letter: Letter to the USDA urging for a stop the foreclosures during the government shutdown
Advocate etter to USDA urging stop to foreclosures during government shutdown
Joint Letter: Letter to the CFPB on Data Collection
AFR Education Fund was among the 18 organizations that submitted these comments responding to the CFPB’s RFI on data collection on December 27, 2018. You can view or download pdf of the letter here.
Joint Statement: Advocates Urge Consumer Bureau To Protect Consumers From Abusive Debt Collectors
Advocates from 74 national and state advocacy groups sent a letter yesterday afternoon to new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Director Kathy Kraninger urging the bureau to focus on protecting consumers from abusive debt collection practices in anticipation of a proposed debt collection rule expected in March 2019.
Speeches and Remarks: Remarks by Policy Director Marcus Stanley re derivatives clearing at CFTC Market Risk Advisory Committee
Additional information about this meeting is available here.
Letters to Regulators: AFR Education Fund sent a comment letter to the SEC regarding proposed rules on broker-dealer and swap dealer capital requirements.
Click here to download a PDF version of the letter.
Joint Statement: CRL, AFR Urge OCC Not To Weaken Standards In CRA Update
The groups pressed the OCC that any changes to the CRA must strengthen — not weaken — banks’ obligation to meet the needs of low-income communities and communities of color and that changes must result in expanded access to credit in historically redlined areas.
Letters to Regulators: Letter to the SEC opposing efforts to weaken shareholder rights
AFR opposes policy proposals that would silence shareholders voice and that would make it harder for proxy advisory firms to advise investors.
Letters to Regulators: Joint Letter to the Federal Reserve about Wells Fargo’s Wrongful Foreclosures
Joint letter to the Federal Reserve asking that Wells Fargo be kept accountable for the computer error that resulted in at least 870 incorrect mortgage modification denials and caused at least 545 homeowners to lose their homes to foreclosure.