Americans for Financial Reform

News Category: Press Releases & Statements

News Release: New Guide Aims to Protect Communities Reeling from Climate Disasters

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: April 10, 2025 CONTACT: Patrick Davis, pdavis@citizen.orgJarice Thompson, jarice@ourfinancialsecurity.org New Guide Aims to Protect Communities Reeling from Climate Disasters A new resource for policymakers seeks to offer guidance as climate disasters are creating compounding crises for homeowners, renters, and insurance policyholders  WASHINGTON — As communities across the country face increasingly severe and

News Release: Republicans Betray the People, Side with Big Banks, Big Tech, and Elon Musk

The House majority today chose to give Wall Street banks free reign to charge outrageous overdraft junk fees and to abandon oversight of payment apps run by Big Tech and Elon Musk. Along partisan lines, the House voted to roll back two popular safeguards created by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). Already passed by the Senate, the measures now go to President Trump to be signed into law.

News Release: Organizations Urge Justice, Banking Regulators to Block Capital One-Discover Merger

Today, American Economic Liberties Project, Americans for Financial Reform Education Fund, National Community Reinvestment Coalition, and Public Citizen sent a letter to the U.S. Department of Justice, the Federal Reserve Board, and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) urging them to block the proposed Capital One-Discover merger under federal antitrust and banking statutes.