Americans for Financial Reform

Government Category: Comments & Letters to Regulators

Letter to Regulators: New “Electronic Trading Risk Principles” Are Inadequate

The AFR Education Fund wrote a letter to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission regarding its proposed new “Electronic Trading Risk Principles”. The letter faulted the principles-based approach as basically allowing Wall Street to regulate itself in this important area. A copy of the letter can be found here: AFR Education Fund Comment on Electronic Trading

Letter to Regulator: Oppose Labor Department Retirement Advice Rulemaking Package

Together, these rules would put the retirement security of millions of American workers and retirees at risk by exposing them to conflicted retirement investment advice without adequate protections to limit the harmful impact of those conflicts of interest. We therefore urge you to withdraw the regulatory package in its entirety and to begin again on a rulemaking proposal that prioritizes protecting retirement savers from the toxic conflicts of interest that pervade the financial services industry.