Current Campaigns

Reining In Wall Street

For too long, bankers themselves have written the rules on Wall Street.

This year, that has to change. Read more.

Secure America's Financial Future

Loose restrictions and a lack of transparency and oversight have allowed for financial institutions to engage in extremely risky practices including the buying and packaging of sub-prime mortgage-backed securities. Read more.

Identity Theft Protection

In an increasingly high-tech marketplace, we trust businesses with more of our personal information than ever before. Yet many companies aren’t as careful as we think—concealing security breaches or questionable sales of information that make consumers vulnerable to identity theft.  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, the big banks, insurance and investment companies and other firms take advantage of unsuspecting consumers or manipulate the system. MoPIRG 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.