Americans for Financial Reform

Government Category: Advocacy Documents

Letter to Congress: AFR and 67 Organizations Oppose Slew of Bills Attacking CFPB

Full letter here The 68 undersigned community, civil rights, consumer, civic and other organizations urge you tooppose the bills, listed below, which would undermine the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau(CFPB) and threaten its statutorily mandated consumer protection mission. The Bureau wasintentionally designed by Congress to function independently, to be led by an independent director,and with a

Letter to Congress: Coalition Letter in Opposition to the CLARITY Act

View or download a full version of the PDF letter here. The 82 investor, consumer, and other advocacy organizations undersigned below write to expressour opposition to the CLARITY Act (H.R. 3633). This bill creates a weak regulatory structure forcrypto assets, actors, and activities that effectively deregulates much of the crypto sector, either bytotally exempting many

Letters to International Standard Setters: ISSB Greenhouse Gas Emissions Disclosure

Americans for Financial Reform Education Fund organized and submitted a letter signed by 16 organizations to the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB). The letter pushes back on proposed amendments to the ISSB’s global greenhouse gas emissions disclosure framework that would exclude GHG emissions disclosure from insurance underwriting, investment banking, and derivatives activities. If ISSB finalizes