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Read our new Substack: "The Trump Administration Can Honor the Military Community by Protecting and Strengthening the CFPB" by @travishorr.bsky.social
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November 13, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Read our new Substack: "The Trump Administration Can Honor the Military Community by Protecting and Strengthening the CFPB" by @travishorr.bsky.social
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The SEC is moving away from its core historic mission of protecting investors and markets to protecting the financial industry and management - effectively demolishing investor protection, threatening capital formation and the U.S. economy. Read more: bettermarkets.org/analysis/the...
The SEC Is Demolishing Investor Protection, Threatening Capital Formation & the U.S. Economy | Better Markets
Like Trump’s demolition of the East Wing of the White House, Trump’s Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)—led by his Chair, Paul Atkins—is demolishing investor protection, which has been the SEC’s...
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November 12, 2025 at 7:48 PM
The SEC is moving away from its core historic mission of protecting investors and markets to protecting the financial industry and management - effectively demolishing investor protection, threatening capital formation and the U.S. economy. Read more: bettermarkets.org/analysis/the...
Service members, veterans and their families are disproportionately targeted by financial scams and financial predators. The Trump administration can honor the military community by strengthening the CFPB and associated consumer protection enforcement. bettermarkets.org/analysis/thi...
This Veterans Day, The Trump Administration Can Honor the Military Community by Protecting and Strengthening the CFPB | Better Markets
Service members, veterans, and their families are disproportionately targeted by financial scams and financial predators. That’s painfully obvious whenever one walks outside the gates of a military ba...
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November 10, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Service members, veterans and their families are disproportionately targeted by financial scams and financial predators. The Trump administration can honor the military community by strengthening the CFPB and associated consumer protection enforcement. bettermarkets.org/analysis/thi...
In his latest op-ed, Director of Economic Growth and Financial Stability Phillip Basil discusses how policymakers can level the playing field so community banks can thrive. www.americanbanker.com/opinion/comm...
Community banks are vital to the economy; lawmakers should act like it
Policymakers must avoid looking at community banks as institutions of the past that no longer have a place or function in our financial system and stop prioritizing large banks and technology companie...
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November 7, 2025 at 3:42 PM
In his latest op-ed, Director of Economic Growth and Financial Stability Phillip Basil discusses how policymakers can level the playing field so community banks can thrive. www.americanbanker.com/opinion/comm...
Thirty years ago, Congress passed the PSLRA to preserve securities class actions. But the SEC's recent decision to allow public companies to force shareholders into mandatory arbitration will prevent them from filing class action lawsuits in court. bettermarkets.org/newsroom/fac...
Fact Sheet: The SEC’s Attempt to Kill Securities Class Actions Through Mandatory Arbitration Violates Congressional Action | Better Markets
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Benjamin Schiffrin, Director of Securities Policy for Better Markets, issued the following statement in connection with Better Markets’ new Fact Sheet, “The SEC’s Attempt to Kill Secu...
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November 6, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Thirty years ago, Congress passed the PSLRA to preserve securities class actions. But the SEC's recent decision to allow public companies to force shareholders into mandatory arbitration will prevent them from filing class action lawsuits in court. bettermarkets.org/newsroom/fac...
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With Veterans Day next week, the Trump Administration can honor the service and sacrifice of the military community by strengthening the CFPB. Read my latest from @bettermarkets.bsky.social here: bettermarkets.org/analysis/thi...
November 5, 2025 at 3:19 PM
With Veterans Day next week, the Trump Administration can honor the service and sacrifice of the military community by strengthening the CFPB. Read my latest from @bettermarkets.bsky.social here: bettermarkets.org/analysis/thi...
Our @denniskelleher.bsky.social spoke with @amorrow.bsky.social @cnn.com about this: "The unmistakable message is, ‘crime pays.’ The administration is actually incentivizing corruption … because criminals now know that if they have enough money, they can buy a get-out-of-jail-free card.”
Pardoning CZ and Ross Ulbricht may have been just the beginning
Former crypto mogul Sam Bankman-Fried is making a play for redemption. Under Trump, it’s not so far-fetched | CNN Business
Sam Bankman-Fried is trying to rewrite the story of one of the biggest white-collar crimes in American history.
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November 3, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Our @denniskelleher.bsky.social spoke with @amorrow.bsky.social @cnn.com about this: "The unmistakable message is, ‘crime pays.’ The administration is actually incentivizing corruption … because criminals now know that if they have enough money, they can buy a get-out-of-jail-free card.”
Happy Halloween 🎃 Step into the Better Markets Haunted House of Financial Horrors by reading our October newsletter. bettermarkets.org/newsroom/bet...
Better Markets Month in Review Newsletter – October 2025 | Better Markets
Below is the opening of our monthly newsletter. View the full newsletter online here. This month, Better Markets celebrated its 15th anniversary. Fighting for hardworking Main Street Americans, an eco...
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October 31, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Happy Halloween 🎃 Step into the Better Markets Haunted House of Financial Horrors by reading our October newsletter. bettermarkets.org/newsroom/bet...
Tomorrow is the 17th anniversary of Satoshi Nakamoto's white paper introducing the world to Bitcoin. He envisioned a way for people to make payments without going through a financial institution. But today, crypto bears almost no resemblance to this vision and is mainly a vehicle for speculation.
We Must Regulate Crypto As It Exists Today | Better Markets
Introduction On October 31, 2008, Satoshi Nakamoto released the white paper introducing the world to Bitcoin. The problem for crypto enthusiasts is that Bitcoin today bears no resemblance to Bitcoin a...
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October 30, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Tomorrow is the 17th anniversary of Satoshi Nakamoto's white paper introducing the world to Bitcoin. He envisioned a way for people to make payments without going through a financial institution. But today, crypto bears almost no resemblance to this vision and is mainly a vehicle for speculation.
The Fed lowered interest rates today while inflation is still creeping up. To get a deeper understanding of those issues and the affordability crisis, check out our recent provocative webinar. bettermarkets.org/newsroom/bet...
Webinar — Affordability & Inflation: What if we’re thinking about this all wrong? | Better Markets
On Thursday, October 23, Better Markets hosted an engaging webinar, Affordability & Inflation: What if We’re Thinking About This All Wrong?, featuring Mark Blyth, Brown University political economist…
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October 29, 2025 at 7:31 PM
The Fed lowered interest rates today while inflation is still creeping up. To get a deeper understanding of those issues and the affordability crisis, check out our recent provocative webinar. bettermarkets.org/newsroom/bet...
Travis Hill’s FDIC Chair nomination hearing is tomorrow. His deregulatory agenda favors Wall Street over consumers & financial stability. We urge the Senate to ask these important questions: bettermarkets.org/analysis/key-questions-that-the-senate-should-ask-trumps-fdic-chairman-nominee-travis-hill
Key Questions That the Senate Should Ask Trump’s FDIC Chairman Nominee Travis Hill | Better Markets
For more than 90 years, the FDIC has been the gold standard in protecting Americans’ savings, the banking system, and the economy from banking crashes and disasters. That’s because it has consistently...
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October 29, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Travis Hill’s FDIC Chair nomination hearing is tomorrow. His deregulatory agenda favors Wall Street over consumers & financial stability. We urge the Senate to ask these important questions: bettermarkets.org/analysis/key-questions-that-the-senate-should-ask-trumps-fdic-chairman-nominee-travis-hill
"Eliminating the disclosure of the identity of short sellers will likely result in increased short selling activity... More financial activity often leads to bubble growth, not economic growth that benefits the real productive economy," @denniskelleher.bsky.social tells @financialtimes.com
UK to stop disclosing identity of stock market short sellers
FCA overhauls regulations in a break with EU rules that places it more in line with the US
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October 28, 2025 at 7:18 PM
"Eliminating the disclosure of the identity of short sellers will likely result in increased short selling activity... More financial activity often leads to bubble growth, not economic growth that benefits the real productive economy," @denniskelleher.bsky.social tells @financialtimes.com
The Fed is proposing to destroy one of its most effective tools - robust stress tests of the biggest, most dangerous banks in the country. Just the latest in a series of major Fed deregulatory changes that will benefit Wall Street at the expense of Main Street. bettermarkets.org?p=30287&prev...
The Federal Reserve Endangers All Americans by Giving Wall Street’s Biggest Banks the Answers to the Stress Tests | Better Markets
WASHINGTON, D.C.— Dennis Kelleher, President, CEO, and Co-founder of Better Markets, issued the following statement in response to a Friday afternoon meeting of the Board of Governors of the Federal…
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October 24, 2025 at 7:33 PM
The Fed is proposing to destroy one of its most effective tools - robust stress tests of the biggest, most dangerous banks in the country. Just the latest in a series of major Fed deregulatory changes that will benefit Wall Street at the expense of Main Street. bettermarkets.org?p=30287&prev...
WATCH LIVE: Mark Blyth joins @jaredb-econ.bsky.social and @nytimes.com econ editor Deborah Solomon to talk inflation and affordability. Are we thinking about it all wrong? www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUmh...
Affordability & Inflation: What if we’re thinking about this all wrong?
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October 23, 2025 at 5:44 PM
WATCH LIVE: Mark Blyth joins @jaredb-econ.bsky.social and @nytimes.com econ editor Deborah Solomon to talk inflation and affordability. Are we thinking about it all wrong? www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUmh...
Today’s decision to pardon Changpeng Zhao (CZ) is perhaps the most brazen signal that the Trump Administration has given the green light to crypto crime. Read our full statement: bettermarkets.org/newsroom/tru...
Trump Sacrifices Rule of Law and American Investor Protections for Personal Gain with Outrageous CZ Pardon | Better Markets
WASHINGTON, D.C.— Statement from Amanda Fischer, Better Markets COO and Policy Director, on today’s announced presidential pardon of Changpeng Zhao (CZ), the co-founder and former CEO of Binance who p...
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October 23, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Today’s decision to pardon Changpeng Zhao (CZ) is perhaps the most brazen signal that the Trump Administration has given the green light to crypto crime. Read our full statement: bettermarkets.org/newsroom/tru...
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The FDIC is supposed to maintain confidence and stability in the banking system, but its push to weaken signage requirements opens too many loopholes that will enable banks and shadow banks to trick consumers into thinking their money is protected when it's not. bettermarkets.org/newsroom/the...
The FDIC’s Push to Weaken Signage Requirements Endangers Americans’ Savings | Better Markets
WASHINGTON, D.C.— Shayna Olesiuk, Director of Banking Policy, issued the following statement on the filing of a comment letter to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) on a Proposal about b...
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October 20, 2025 at 6:42 PM
The FDIC is supposed to maintain confidence and stability in the banking system, but its push to weaken signage requirements opens too many loopholes that will enable banks and shadow banks to trick consumers into thinking their money is protected when it's not. bettermarkets.org/newsroom/the...
Our Friday read - Excellent reporting from @cnn.com on crypto ATM scams. www.cnn.com/interactive/...
Americans are losing millions to scammers at crypto ATMs. Here’s how companies profit
Companies often fail to refund money to victims and aggressively fight police to claw back scam money seized from machines.
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October 17, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Our Friday read - Excellent reporting from @cnn.com on crypto ATM scams. www.cnn.com/interactive/...
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I wrote a new piece outlining how SEC leadership is using “staff” statements and novel legal maneuvers to avoid the APA, a critical public transparency law.
It’s a way to deliver for the financial services industry while avoiding scrutiny of skeptics and public interest advocates.
It’s a way to deliver for the financial services industry while avoiding scrutiny of skeptics and public interest advocates.
In the past nine months, the SEC has strayed from the standard rulemaking process that is supposed to let members of the public have equal opportunity to comment on changes before they go into effect. Read more in a Substack by @amandalfischer.bsky.social: bettermarkets.substack.com/p/the-secret...
The Secret Securities and Exchange Commission
By Amanda Fischer, Policy Director & COO
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October 16, 2025 at 7:35 PM
I wrote a new piece outlining how SEC leadership is using “staff” statements and novel legal maneuvers to avoid the APA, a critical public transparency law.
It’s a way to deliver for the financial services industry while avoiding scrutiny of skeptics and public interest advocates.
It’s a way to deliver for the financial services industry while avoiding scrutiny of skeptics and public interest advocates.
The Federal Reserve, FDIC and OCC's decision today to ignore climate-related financial risks is a complete dereliction of duty. Read our full statement: bettermarkets.org/newsroom/fed...
Federal Reserve, FDIC and OCC’s Baseless Political Decision to Ignore the Financial Risks From Climate Is A Dereliction of Duty | Better Markets
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Dennis Kelleher, President, CEO, and Co-founder, issued the following statement in response to the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (Fed), Federal Deposit Insurance Co...
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October 16, 2025 at 8:43 PM
The Federal Reserve, FDIC and OCC's decision today to ignore climate-related financial risks is a complete dereliction of duty. Read our full statement: bettermarkets.org/newsroom/fed...
In the past nine months, the SEC has strayed from the standard rulemaking process that is supposed to let members of the public have equal opportunity to comment on changes before they go into effect. Read more in a Substack by @amandalfischer.bsky.social: bettermarkets.substack.com/p/the-secret...
The Secret Securities and Exchange Commission
By Amanda Fischer, Policy Director & COO
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October 16, 2025 at 7:01 PM
In the past nine months, the SEC has strayed from the standard rulemaking process that is supposed to let members of the public have equal opportunity to comment on changes before they go into effect. Read more in a Substack by @amandalfischer.bsky.social: bettermarkets.substack.com/p/the-secret...
The crypto industry wants to tokenize stock trading, but this poses multiple risks to investors. Read more in our comment letter to the SEC.
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Tokenization Benefits Crypto Industry at Expense of Investors | Better Markets
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Benjamin Schiffrin, Director of Securities Policy for Better Markets, issued the following statement on the filing of Better Markets’ comment letter to the SEC in response to Nasdaq’s...
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October 15, 2025 at 5:43 PM
The crypto industry wants to tokenize stock trading, but this poses multiple risks to investors. Read more in our comment letter to the SEC.
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BIG win for investors and markets ⚖️ The D.C. Circuit Court upheld an SEC rule that will improve the way securities are traded at major stock exchanges. Better Markets supported this in an amicus brief earlier this year. Read our statement: bettermarkets.org/newsroom/sec...
SEC Court Victory a Big Win for Investors & Markets | Better Markets
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Stephen Hall, Legal Director and Securities Specialist, issued the following statement on the decision of the D.C. Circuit, issued today, that rejects all industry challenges to an im...
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October 14, 2025 at 6:36 PM
BIG win for investors and markets ⚖️ The D.C. Circuit Court upheld an SEC rule that will improve the way securities are traded at major stock exchanges. Better Markets supported this in an amicus brief earlier this year. Read our statement: bettermarkets.org/newsroom/sec...
The SEC is supposed to be an independent agency, yet Chair Paul Atkins acts as if the SEC is a mouthpiece for the Trump administration. In our fact sheet, we break down how Chair Atkins is politicizing the SEC. bettermarkets.org/analysis/pau...
Paul Atkins is Politicizing the SEC | Better Markets
Introduction Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chair Paul Atkins is fond of saying that it is a new day at the SEC. His agenda demonstrates that what he means is that the SEC now intends to ena...
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October 10, 2025 at 8:38 PM
The SEC is supposed to be an independent agency, yet Chair Paul Atkins acts as if the SEC is a mouthpiece for the Trump administration. In our fact sheet, we break down how Chair Atkins is politicizing the SEC. bettermarkets.org/analysis/pau...