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Press Release: Congress Must Reject This Handout to Credit Reporting Agencies and Instead Strengthen the CFPB and the Credit Reporting Error Protections That People Rely On
Today, Americans for Financial Reform called on Congress to adopt comprehensive reforms for the credit reporting industry and the unregulated data broker market, rather than rolling back existing protections.
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Statement: Caroline Nagy AFR Associate Director, Housing, on New York City’s proposed property and liability insurance program for affordable housing and rent-stabilized buildings
Today, the Mamdani administration announced that it will create a new program to provide cheaper property and liability insurance to landlords of subsidized affordable housing and rent-stabilized buildings in New York City.
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Statement: Mark Hays, AFR and Demand Progress Associate Director, Crypto and Fintech, on new FBI Annual Report on Internet Financial Crime Losses to Crypto and other Scams
Yesterday, the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) released its annual Internet Crime Report, which analyses complaints received from online financial crime survivors each year to determine the scope and scale of such criminal activity and who is most impacted by it.