New Voice for Consumer Finance
AFSA is pleased to be supporting the inaugural conference of the newly launched Institute for Consumer Financial Choice (ICFC) at George Mason University’s Antonin Scalia Law School. Entitled, “The Future of Consumer Financial Protection,” the conference is co-sponsored with the Federal Trade Commission.
The ICFC was launched earlier this year by Prof. Tom Miller, the Jack R. Lee Chair of Financial Institutions and Consumer Finance at Mississippi State University and Prof. Todd Zywicki of the Scalia Law School.
The two-day conference is focused on the 5th Anniversary of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s Taskforce on Federal Consumer Financial Law, and features a keynote from Chris Mufarrige, Director, Bureau of Consumer Protection at the FTC, and panels covering such topics as, “Innovation in the Financial Services Marketplace,” and “Consumer Engagement in the Financial Services Marketplace: The Impact of New Products and Technologies on Consumers, Business, and Regulators.”
Participants include not only Professors Miller and Zywicki, but also Brandon Bolen, an associate professor of economics at Mississippi College and former AFSA chief economist Tom Durkin. Bolen, along with Miller, published the landmark and influential study on the effects of the 36% rate cap on Illinois consumers.
Just as important as this inaugural conference is the formation of the ICFC itself as an academic and policy beachhead covering the consumer finance marketplace and industry. AFSA looks forward to engaging with the ICFC moving forward.
May 13th, 2026
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