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Joint Letter: Nominate Progressive Candidates to Financial Regulators

The need for strong public interest nominees is even greater today. This Administration has been
filling key regulatory positions with people pursuing Wall Street’s agenda at the public’s expense,
and the revolving door is spinning faster than ever. There is an enormous amount at stake at both
the SEC and FDIC as the financial industry and their friends in the Trump administration work to
undo the progress made in Dodd-Frank and to undermine key investor protection standards.

Letters to Regulators: AFR opposed roll back of transparency disclosures to investors in SEC proposed rule “Investment Company Liquidity Disclosures.”

AFR commented on the roll back of transparency disclosures to investors in the SEC proposed rule “Investment Company Liquidity Disclosures.”

AFR in the News: SEC Seeks to Require Brokers to Put Their Clients First (NY Times)

“’The standard of conduct the agency has articulated appears ambiguous at best,’ Marcus Stanley, policy director at Americans for Financial Reform, said in a statement. ‘It doesn’t simply ban the sales quotas and other compensation practices that lead brokers to put their clients into high-fee, lower-yielding investments.’”

AFR Statement: Weak SEC Proposal on Broker Standards

Statement from Marcus Stanley, policy director, Americans for Financial Reform: “The proposal we heard described today does not come close to measuring up. The standard of conduct the agency has articulated appears ambiguous at best. It doesn’t simply ban the sales quotas and other compensation practices that lead brokers to put their clients into high-fee, lower-yielding investments.”

Letters to Congress: AFR Urges Opposition to H.R. 4263 — A Bill Undermining Transparency and Investor Protections in Capital Markets

AFR sent a letter to members of the House of Representatives urging them to vote in opposition to H.R. 4263, the “Regulation A+ Improvement Act”.

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Joint Letter: Nominate Progressive Candidates to Financial Regulators

Letters to Regulators: AFR opposed roll back of transparency disclosures to investors in SEC proposed rule “Investment Company Liquidity Disclosures.”

AFR in the News: SEC Seeks to Require Brokers to Put Their Clients First (NY Times)

AFR Statement: Weak SEC Proposal on Broker Standards

Letters to Congress: AFR Urges Opposition to H.R. 4263 — A Bill Undermining Transparency and Investor Protections in Capital Markets

Letters to Congress: AFR Urges Opposition to HR 3978 — A Bill Harming Investors and Consumers

Letter to Congress: AFR Opposes A Dozen Deregulatory Bills in House Financial Services Committee Markup

Letter to Congress: Don’t Weaken Regulation of Ratings Agencies — Reject HR 3911

Letter to Congress: Protect Investors and Reject HR 1585

Letter to Congress: AFR Urges House Financial Services Committee To Reject 19 Deregulatory Bills