Senators Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) and Carl Levin (D-Mich.) have appealed to regulators to finish work on the Volcker Rule, which was meant to prevent banks from engaging in hedge-fund style trading. That basic principle has been “the law of the land for over two years,”
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. is looking into payday loan-like products offered by U.S. Bank, Wells Fargo and other lenders. The inquiry, according to the Portland (Ore.) Business Journal grew out of a February letter in which Americans for Financial Reform and more than 200
First the government wheedled his company into buying Bear Stearns; then the government sued his company over the misdeeds of Bear Stearns – that’s JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon’s hard-luck story. Don’t buy it – that’s the message of an AFR letter to the co-chairs of
Bank lobbyists plan to make the most of the lame-duck session of Congress that gets underway after the election. Almost before anyone has a chance to notice, they hope to pass an amendment undermining a crucial piece of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street reform law —
In a joint letter, AFR urges the SEC and CFTC not to exempt this common type of financial guarantee, which closely resembles a swap, from new derivatives rules.
“Consumer groups are urging the monitor of the national mortgage settlement to add data on race, ethnicity and geography to determine whether the five largest servicers are offering relief to communities hit hardest by foreclosures,” The American Banker reports. In an Oct. 31 article, The
The Dodd-Frank Act sought to protect municipalities and taxpayers against exploitative Wall Street financing deals. Now there are moves afoot to take back some of that promised protection.
This new report (from the AFR Activism Fund) tracks a stream of efforts by members of the current Congress to undermine one of the major acts of the last Congress: the Dodd-Frank financial reform law. Since Dodd-Frank, Wall Street interests have lobbied to roll back
Six financial regulators are challenging the logic of a Senate bill (S. 3468) that would empower the President to direct their agencies (among others) to submit all proposed rules to the White House Office of Management and Budget for prior review. The bill, known as
In a 181-page letter to federal regulators, the American Bankers Association, the Financial Services Roundtable, and the Securities Industry & Financial Markets Association take aim at a set of proposed rules intended to ensure compliance with new international capital standards. Regulators should have “conducted an