Nominate Elizabeth Warren – Provide The Pecora Hearings We Need

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An article from The Baseline Scenario Nominate Elizabeth Warren – Provide The Pecora Hearings We Need Posted: 04 May 2011 08:29 AM PDT By Simon Johnson Ms. Warren is helping get the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) off the ground and remains the leading contender to become its formal …

Federation, CDCUs, Launch Multi-year Campaign to Expand Service to Older Adults

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Contact: Rafael O. Morales | Public Affairs & West Coast Program Officer | [email protected] | 800.437.8711 x206 Federation, CDCUs, Launch Multi-year Campaign to Expand Service to Older Adults (April 26, 2011 – New York, NY) The National Federation of Community Development Credit Unions (Federation) has received a major grant from …

New Coalition Forms to Fight Tax Dodgers and Financial Secrecy

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A publication of FACT Coalitiion New Rules for Global Finance is pleased to join with other organizations in announcing the launch of the Financial Accountability and Corporate Transparency (FACT) campaign and coalition. As the name indicates, FACT is a campaign to achieve greater financial accountability and transparency within financial institutions, …

A Healthy Financial System Cannot Be Built On The Expectation Of Bailouts

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A publication from Baseline Scenario A Healthy Financial System Cannot Be Built On The Expectation Of Bailouts Posted: 05 Mar 2011 06:43 AM PST By Simon Johnson. Testimony submitted to the Congressional Oversight Panel, ?Hearing on the TARP?s Impact on Financial Stability,? Friday, March 4, 2011. I. Summary 1) The …

Schumacher College: Rethinking Finance: Good Servant, Bad Master?

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July 11 – 15, 2011 Teachers: Ann Pettifor, Hazel Henderson (by videolink), Tessa Tennant, Nathalie Buschor, Mark Burton, Julie Richardson This course is open for bookings. Financial markets, we are told, are the lifeblood of our society and that is why governments have gone to such enormous lengths to prop …

Five Questions about SRI – Weekly Expert Interview with Paul Clements-Hunt

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A publication from Emerging Markets ESP Each week Emerging Markets ESG publishes an interview entitled, “Five Questions about SRI.” The interview features a practitioner’s insights about SRI in emerging markets and through Emerging Markets ESG shares this expertise with a wide global audience. The goals of Five Questions about SRI …

Federation Exploring Billion-Dollar Community Development Bond Program

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Contact: Rafael O. Morales | Public Affairs & West Coast Program Officer | [email protected] | 800.437.8711 x206 (February 8, 2011 – New York, NY) The National Federation of Community Development Credit Unions (Federation) has joined a group working to design and advocate for a new program that could mean billions …

UNEP FI Online Course on Climate Change: Risks and Opportunities for the Finance Sector

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Dear Madam, Dear Sir, Greetings from UNEP FI Geneva! The next UNEP FI online course on ‘Climate Change: Risks and Opportunities for the Finance Sector’ will be run from the 4th to 25th April and we would be very pleased if you could join us. The objective of this course …

CDCUs Receive Nearly $70MM from Community Development Capital Initiative Treasury Program to Help CDCUs Expand Assistance to America’s Main Streets

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Eight months after its launch by Secretary of the Treasury Geithner on February 3 the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Community Development Capital Initiative (CDCI) has invested nearly $70 million in financial institutions that specialize in serving low-income and disadvantaged communities. The program targeted community development credit unions (CDCUs) and …