Letters to Regulators Archives - Page 46 of 63 - Americans for Financial Reform

AFR Comment: AFR Supports CFP Board Update to Ethical Standards

“By making the fiduciary duty commitment stronger and more specific, these Proposed Revisions to the Standards For Professional Conduct for Certified Financial Planners will enhance CFP client service and assure the public that CFP professionals will reliably act in the best interests of the investor. We strongly support their inclusion in the final revisions to the Standards, and urge the CFP Board to resist any pressures to weaken them.”

Letter to Regulator: AFR asks Fed to protect consumers in check forgery disputes

“We support the proposed rule but urge the Board to clarify that the presumption be limited to disputes between banks and recommend the Board require banks to maintain original checks for a specified period of time.”

Letter to Regulator: AFR, 8 organizations provide detailed recommendations to FHFA to improve language access in the mortgage industry

“The burden of interpreting financial services jargon and communicating with lenders and servicers should not rest solely on borrowers. . . . Expanding access to language services throughout the mortgage process would begin to equalize a system that currently undermines the ability of LEP borrowers to understand the complexities of their future homeownership prospects and to protect their home after purchasing it.”

Letter to Regulator: AFR, 86 organizations call for FHFA to make mortgages more accessible to people with limited English proficiency

“As dominant actors in the mortgage industry with a statutory duty to facilitate underserved communities’ access to homeownership, we welcome the FHFA, Freddie Mac, and Fannie Mae’s consideration of steps to expand access to the mortgage market.”

Letter to Regulators: AFR Opposes SoFi’s Deposit Insurance Application

“…The essence of SoFi’s application is a request to seek the benefits of federal deposit insurance without subjecting SoFi itself or its private equity owners to the well-founded requirements for bank holding companies. The FDIC should not approve the application to facilitate this regulatory arbitrage. …If its application is granted, SoFi will be the first new ILC to secure deposit insurance in over a decade. That will send a clear signal to the marketplace that the FDIC intends once again to approve ILC deposit insurance applications. FDIC should not grant SoFi’s application and allow the ILC loophole to be revived.”

Letter to Regulators: AFR Calls on the Dept of ED to Enforce, Not Dismantle, Borrower Defense and Gainful Employment

Americans for Financial Reform submitted comments to the Department of Education in strong opposition to any delay to or re-opening of the Borrower Defense to Repayment and Gainful Employment regulations. The Department of Education (the “Department”) has already conduced the arduous process of negotiated rulemaking on both of these rules, where all constituencies were able to weigh in. Establishing new negotiated rulemakings on these rules is a waste of taxpayer money and government resources.

Joint Letter: Open Letter to Acosta Urging Strong Fiduciary Rule Without Delay

In the face of supporting evidence described above, in addition to harming retirement savers, the Department would be exposing itself to significant legal risk to change course and further delay the Rule now.

Letter to Regulators: AFR Calls on CFTC To Strengthen Risk Controls for Derivatives Dealers

The full letter is linked below: Americans for Financial Reform Comment Swaps Entity Capital and Liquidity Requirements

Joint Letter: AFR Joins 15 Organizations Praising, Pressing CFPB on Discriminatory Credit Practices

“We welcome the CFPB’s update of Regulation B, which implements the ECOA, and have joined in the comprehensive comments filed by the National Community Reinvestment Coalition. More changes are needed to Regulation B, however, to give consumers stronger protections against discrimination in the credit marketplace.”

AFR, 29 Orgs Raise Concerns Over New Ownership of Predatory Colleges

AFR joined 29 other individuals and organizations representing students, consumers, veterans, servicemembers, and civil rights to send a letter to Education Secretary DeVos raising concerns around the questionable sale of EDMC to the Dream Center Foundation.