Loose restrictions and a lack of transparency and oversight have allowed financial institutions to engage in reckless practices like buying and packaging subprime mortgage-backed securities.

Americans can't stand by as the financial sector takes excessive risks using retirees savings and backed by bailouts using taxpayers' hard-earned dollars.

Current Campaigns

Reining In Wall Street

VICTORY! - For too long, bankers themselves have written the rules on Wall Street. But on July 21st President Barack Obama signed into law historic reforms that rein in Wall Street.

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Truth About Credit

Credit card companies use a variety of unfair practices to trap consumers in a cycle of over-priced debt. The companies are allowed by regulators to raise your rates for any reason, including no reason. Read more. 

Overview

Conducting the day-to-day business of our lives shouldn’t come at the cost of our financial security. But too often, big banks, insurance and investment companies and other firms take advantage of unsuspecting consumers or manipulate the system. 

CoPIRG fights to make the financial marketplace work fairly, to protect vulnerable Americans from predatory lending terms, to equip consumers with the knowledge to protect their finances, and to expose business practices that make us vulnerable to identity theft, fraud and abusive credit rates.