Last week, Americans for Financial Reform played a part in putting together major events marking the anniversaries of the Dodd-Frank Act and the creation of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
Full videostreams of both events are available:
AFR Dodd-Frank Fifth Anniversary Conference with Senators Sherrod Brown and Elizabeth Warren and panels of regulators and experts. Agenda.
AFR Dodd-Frank Fifth Anniversary Conference: Agenda
AFR Dodd-Frank Fifth Anniversary Event
Tuesday, July 14th, 2:30 – 5:30 PM
Russell Senate Office Building Room 485
2:30 – 2:35 PM: OPENING AND INTRODUCTIONS – Lisa Donner, Executive Director, Americans for Financial Reform
2:35 – 3:00 PM: KEYNOTE ADDRESS – Senator Sherrod Brown
3:00 – 4:00 PM: PANEL OF REGULATORS, panel featuring:
Paul Nash, Senior Deputy Comptroller and Chief of Staff, Office of Comptroller of the Currency
Jonathan Marcus, General Counsel, Commodity Futures Trading Commission
Zixta Martinez, Associate Director for External Affairs, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
Patrick Pinschmidt, Deputy Assistant Secretary and Executive Director, Financial Stability Oversight Council, Department of the Treasury
Mark Van Der Weide, Deputy Director of Bank Supervision and Regulation, Federal Reserve Board
Moderated by: Heather Slavkin Corzo, Director of the Office of Investment, AFL-CIO
4:00 – 5:00: DODD-FRANK AND THE FINANCIAL SYSTEM: FIVE YEARS ON, HOW MUCH HAS CHANGED? Discussion featuring:
Simon Johnson, Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Jerry Epstein, Professor, University of Massachusetts
Ed Mierzwinski, Consumer Program Director, Public Interest Research Group
Marcus Stanley, Policy Director, Americans for Financial Reform
Mitria Wilson, Vice President of Government Affairs, Center for Responsible Lending
5:00 – 5:30: CLOSING ADDRESS – Senator Elizabeth Warren
Dodd-Frank Fifth Anniversary Event
Dodd-Frank at 5, the Consumer Bureau at 4
Dodd-Frank at 5, the CFPB at 4 (video) with CFPB Director Richard Cordray and consumer advocates.
July 16, 2015 from 12pm-1:30pm
1800 Massachusetts Avenue NW
Keynote: CFPB Director Richard Cordray (Remarks)
Followed by a panel of consumer advocates discussing consumer financial protection, the CFPB’s work thus far, and the tasks ahead. Panelists include:
Nancy Zirkin, Executive Vice President, The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights
Lauren Saunders, Associate Director, National Consumer Law Center
Mike Calhoun, President, Center for Responsible Lending
Pam Banks, Senior Policy Counsel, Consumers Union
Ruth Susswein, Deputy Director of National Priorities, Consumer Action
Sponsored by: Americans for Financial Reform, Consumer Federation of America, The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, National Association of Consumer Advocates, National Consumer Law Center, National Council of La Raza, Public Citizen, U.S. PIRG
