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AFR Statement on CFPB Mortgage Lending Rule

“[P]ortions of today’s rule should have been stronger, and the CFPB has put one very important question on the table for further comment, creating a risk of further slippage.”

Jan 10, 2013 by admin in Financial Reform News
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AFR in the News: CFPB Readies New Mortgage Rules as Banks Seek More Time

The rules… are “likely to resemble” an October draft that “extended a legal safe harbor to loans issued at prime interest rates to borrowers whose total debt-to-income ratio doesn’t exceed 43 percent.”

Jan 09, 2013 by admin in AFR in the News
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AFR Memo on CFPB’s 2013 Mortgage Rules

With new rules for mortgage lending and servicing due to be issued soon, the Bureau faces an important opportunity to make the housing market work better for families and communities.

Jan 09, 2013 by admin in Financial Reform News
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AFR Letter: Resolution Plans Fall Far Short

More specificity and disclosure are needed in the big banks’ “living wills.”

Jan 08, 2013 by admin in Financial Reform News
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AFR Statement on Basel Liquidity Rules

International regulators have “effectively gutted” a requirement that was supposed to provide a crucial protection against financial instability.

Jan 07, 2013 by admin in Financial Reform News
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JP Morgan Gets a Big Holiday Gift From the SEC

Fund backed by physical copper “effectively creates a corner on the market,” AFR’s Marcus Stanley tells The New Republic.

Jan 02, 2013 by admin in AFR in the News
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AFR Statement on UBS LIBOR Price Fixing

“These actions run far too deep and are much too extensive to be written off as the behavior of a few ‘rogue traders.'”

Dec 21, 2012 by admin in Financial Reform News
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AFR Statement on SEC Approval of Copper ETFs

As speculative interest increases, this vital industrial commodity will be withdrawn from the market, and prices for real-economy businesses and consumers will increase.

Dec 17, 2012 by admin in Financial Reform News
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Cross-Border Exemption = Backdoor Repeal

AFR tele-conference explores a major threat to Dodd-Frank derivatives reforms.

Dec 17, 2012 by admin in Events
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AFR Statement on International Derivatives Transactions

In a statement submitted to the House Agriculture Committee, AFR explains why U.S. oversight agencies must regulate international derivatives transactions in order to protect the U.S. economy.

Dec 14, 2012 by admin in Financial Reform News
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