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In The News: AFREF and Take on Wall Street Launched ESG Advocacy and...

ESG advocacy — Americans for Financial Reform Education Fund and Take On Wall Street are launching esgexplainer.org. They say it's an attempt at "educating Americans about responsible investing" and...

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In The News: SEC Poised to Rework Stock Buyback Rule After Court Tosses It

“The SEC must stand behind the need to have basic transparency around stock buybacks,” Natalia Renta, senior policy counsel for corporate governance and power at the group, said in a statement. The...

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In The News: New Credit Union Regulator Could Boost Exec Comp Push...

Americans for Financial Reform flags that it now means all the banking agencies have majorities to move ahead with an unfinished rule from the 2010 Dodd-Frank law to address executives' incentive-based...

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In The News: Banks Fine-Tune Critiques of US Capital Plan to Sway Fed’s...

Banks are spending “vast lobbying dollars to cloak themselves in the mantle of preserving access to credit,” [AFR] said. “But the truth that the banks avoid debating is that the overwhelming impact of...

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In The News: Private-Fund Lobbyists Get Set for High-Stakes SEC Court Fight...

“The private-funds industry is trying to use its money and resources and a friendly court in order to push back on rule-making. That’s very simply what’s going on here,” said Andrew Park, senior policy...

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In The News: ‘Could have predicted’: Steward downfall started with former AG...

“It’s very incompatible with health care, especially today with movements toward improving quality care in health care, increasing the coordination among different types of health care providers, being...

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In The News: The Capital One-Discover deal raises thorny issues for...

"Today's concentrated markets and behemoth banking organizations are the result of a thirty-year run of mergers and consolidation," said Patrick Woodall, senior fellow at the Americans for Financial...

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In The News: Commentary: Crisis at Steward Health highlights private equity’s...

“Steward is a prime example of private equity’s business model of extracting short-term profits from entities before selling them off,” said Robert Seifert, senior fellow at Americans for Financial...

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In The News: U.S. caps credit card late charges in new Biden crackdown on...

“There are changes that fiddle at the edges of a problem and there are reforms like this one that will save consumers billions each year by slashing a particularly nasty kind of junk fee,” said Amanda...

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In The News: Your thoughts on “capital requirements” (The New York...

Carter Dougherty, the communications director at Americans for Financial Reform (and a former reporter for The Times) ... “With executive compensation linked to bank share prices, you realize the...

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