Americans for Financial Reform

Last month the Supreme Court delivered a crushing defeat to Wall Street’s challenge to funding of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Undeterred, Wall Street is now trying to distort the ...

https://ourfinancialsecurity.org/2024/06/blog-wall-street-lobby-surfaces-new-nonsensical-legal-claim-over-cfpb-funding/

The proposal by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to eliminate medical debt on credit reports would, if fully implemented, curb harmful practices such as distorted credit reports and abusi...

https://ourfinancialsecurity.org/2024/06/news-release-removal-of-medical-debt-from-credit-reports-will-curb-abuses/

For immediate release: June 11, 2024 Researchers Unveil Searchable Database of Top Private Equity Energy Portfolios For the first time, the Private Equity Climate Risks project has released a lis...

https://ourfinancialsecurity.org/2024/06/news-release-researchers-unveil-searchable-database-of-top-private-equity-energy-portfolios-2/

AFREF and 23 signatories submitted a comment letter calling on the Treasury Department and the IRS to finalize a rule implementing the 1% stock buybacks excise tax with strong anti-avoidance pro...

https://ourfinancialsecurity.org/2024/06/letters-to-the-regulators-letter-urging-the-treasury-and-the-irs-to-finalize-the-stock-buybacks-excise-tax-rule/

When consumers purchase many financial products and services they have no say over specific terms and conditions, only the choice of whether to sign or not. Yet, hidden in the fine print in virtu...

https://ourfinancialsecurity.org/2024/06/blog-cfpb-takes-action-on-consumer-protection-violations-in-the-corporate-fine-print/

By staying the private fund disclosure rule written by the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Fifth Circuit has given a victory to extraordinarily wealthy predatory financiers and opened the...

https://ourfinancialsecurity.org/2024/06/news-release-fifth-circuits-wall-street-friendly-ruling-a-broad-threat-to-sec-disclosure-rules/

AFREF and 11 organizations submitted a comment letter to the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) in support of a proposal to require public accounting firms to publicly report speci...

https://ourfinancialsecurity.org/2024/06/letters-to-the-regulators-letter-to-the-public-company-accounting-oversight-board-in-support-of-a-public-reporting-requirement/

An intricate network of housing industry groups, often backed by corporate landlords, are actively blocking solutions that would alleviate the worst aspects of the current housing crisis and impr...

https://ourfinancialsecurity.org/2024/06/news-release-report-exposes-how-real-estate-industry-maintains-housing-crisis/

AFREF, in partnership with Capital Strategies for the Common Good, the Private Equity Stakeholder Project, and Bargaining for the Common Good, have produced a report highlighting how, in recent d...

https://ourfinancialsecurity.org/2024/06/report-who-is-behind-the-curtain-breaking-down-trade-associations-that-fight-tenants-and-hurt-housing-affordability/

“The Fifth Circuit has once again sided with Wall Street and its private-equity billionaires to block reasonable protections for both the public interest and workers saving for retirement,” s...

https://www.wsj.com/articles/court-loss-leaves-sec-with-tough-choices-in-private-equity-reform-push-8ce87960?st=m87w3unu0uirxhk&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink#new_tab