“Americans for Financial Reform (“AFR”) and the Committee for Better Banks (“CBB”) appreciate the opportunity to comment on the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (“FFIEC”) notice of proposed revisions to the Uniform Interagency Consumer Compliance Rating System (“CC Rating System”).”
“According to a new poll, conducted by GBA Strategies on behalf of Americans for Financial Reform, the Center for Responsible Lending, the National Council of La Raza, and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, just 3 percent of registered voters have a favorable opinion of payday lenders. Yes, even used car salesmen and Wall Street banks are more well-liked than payday lenders.”
“Americans for Financial Reform (AFR) and many members of our coalition and allies have long pressed for significant changes to the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) sales of distressed mortgages so that the program better serves homeowners and communities, and we welcome yesterday’s announcement of a number of promising reforms. “
“Even as Democrats staged a historic sit-in on the House floor beginning Wednesday… GOP representatives made sure to let the financial services industry know they cared. As a tweet from the Americans for Financial Reform put it: ‘The House reconvenes to defend billions in Wall Street profits earned by putting its interests over their clients.’”
“Consumer advocates see a different agenda at work. ‘This plan doesn’t get tough on banks,” the advocacy group Americans for Financial Reform said in a statement. “It gets tough on the regulators policing them.’”
“We continue to believe that the Department should be providing automatic group relief for wronged Corinthian students, rather than pursuing the application-based, piecemeal approach it has taken to discharges thus far.”
“Today, Senators Mark Warner and Elizabeth Warren, as well as Congressman Elijah Cummings have introduced an important new piece of legislation that takes a comprehensive approach to addressing failures in oversight of the $500 trillion global derivatives market, and would go far to protect the public against the risks of another disastrous meltdown in critical financial markets.”
AFR’s Alexis Goldstein gave opening remarks at the launch of the AFT Report “Regulating Too-Big-to-Fail Education.” In her remarks, Goldstein outlined the parallels between the for-profit college crisis and the subprime mortgage crisis.
“We are writing in response to the letter you received recently from a number of industry trade groups opposing the inclusion of preferred language data fields in the redesigned Uniform Residential Loan Application (URLA)… The URLA redesign presents a unique and unprecedented opportunity to take an important first step towards addressing equitable access to the mortgage market for LEP consumers and we strongly urge you to include preferred language data fields.”
“Americans for Financial Reform (“AFR”) appreciates the opportunity to comment on the Federal Reserve Board’s (the “Board”) Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (“Proposed Rule” or “Proposal”) on the above-mentioned rule. Section 165 of the Dodd-Frank Act mandates the imposition of single counterparty credit limits (SCCL), and significantly expands the range of exposures that are captured under such limits. This Proposed Rule is a re-proposal of the Board’s original 2011 proposal regarding credit exposure limits, and makes a number of changes to the original proposal. ”