News Category: AFR in the News
Oxford Law Blogs: The Financial Sector’s Last Stand: Why Brussels Faces Pressure to Keep Banking Under CSDDD Scrutiny
Thirty groups, including ShareAction, Oxfam, Americans for Financial Reform and the European Environmental Bureau, have signed a letter urging Brussels to maintain the review clause.
NPR: Despite past complications, crypto company Tether is ready for American debut
HAYS: Crypto investors and people who want crypto to come to the U.S. should be careful what they wish for.
Truthout: What Trump’s Executive Order on 401(K)s Means for Workers Who Hope to Retire
According to Americans for Financial Reform, private equity firms have been called a “billionaire factory” for private equity managers, whose performance fees increased the number of multibillionaires in the U.S. sevenfold between 2006 and 2015.
Bloomberg Law: FTC Sees Dismantling of Consumer Watchdog as Growth Opportunity
“The FTC does not have additional authority to address those issues that it didn’t have prior to the financial crisis,” [said Patrick Woodall, the managing director for policy at Americans for Financial Reform.]
Bloomberg: Trump Administration Scraps Oversight Groups on Climate and Financial Risk
“The inconvenient truth is that climate change is wreaking havoc and throwing property insurance markets into crisis,” said Alex Martin, policy director for climate finance at Americans for Financial Reform Education Fund.