CFPB’s Complaint System – How It Works and What It Can Do
The Consumer Bureau is a place to go for anyone with a problem involving a mortgage, a student loan, a credit card, a bank account, a car loan, a money transfer, or a credit report.
AFR Opposes HR 1038
AFR sent a letter to members of Congress urging them to oppose HR 1038. This legislation would make it easier for major dealers in the energy markets to avoid appropriate designation as swaps dealers, and would also remove important protections for public utilities in their swaps transactions.
Don’t Let Wall Street Offshore Its Recklessness
Tell the House of Representatives to say No to HR 1256, a bill that would open the way to a dangerous new surge of Wall Street gambling.
Opposition Materials to HR 1256
AFR sent a letter and one pager regarding HR 1256, the “Swaps Jurisdiction Certainty Act” to members of Congress, urging them to oppose the bill. HR 1256 would severely undermine regulators ability to protect U.S. taxpayers from risks that arise from overseas derivatives trading.
Action Alert: Tell the President and Congress to Get Behind a Wall Street Speculation Tax
Here’s a way to raise hundreds of billions of dollars, get Wall Street to shoulder more of the responsibility for America’s economic recovery, and curb the kind of dangerous high-frequency trading that puts the financial system at risk. A small tax on sales of stocks,
AFR in the News: Who Killed Financial Reform?
“We expected that it would be hard to keep what we’d won and do more going forward,” AFR’s Lisa Donner tells USA Today. “It’s been slower and harder than we’d hoped.”
AFR Letter to Regulators Emphasizing Lessons of the Senate PSI London Whale Report
AFR sent a letter to regulators emphasizing the lessons from the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations (PSI) report on the London Whale.
AFR Supports CFPB’s Proposed Guidance on Servicing Rules
AFR submitted a comment letter to the CFPB supporting their proposed guidance clarifying the relationship of their servicing rules to stronger state laws. The letter also makes suggestions for improvement.
AFR Supports FDIC and OCC Proposed Guidance on Payday Loans in Comment Letter
AFR joined more than 45 organizations in submitting a comment letter to the OCC and the FDIC supporting their proposed guidance on bank payday lending. The letter praises their proposal, and adds some additional steps that we believe would be beneficial to curbing the use of payday loans.
AFR Opposes S. 949
AFR sent a letter to members of Congress opposing S. 949, legislation which promotes steering borrowers into more expensive loans.