Finance
Free and efficient financial markets are essential to a diverse and growing economy. They allow businesses to succeed and individuals to build financial security. To support that system, we need smart regulation that ensures access to capital and credit, enables companies to go public, incentivizes innovation, and provides choice and access for investors while protecting consumers.
Main Street Lending
Federal regulators are getting ready to implement new rules for banks. The result could be less credit and slower growth for American business.
ESG / Corporate Governance
If a change in public company audit standards is adopted, it would turn public company audits into wide-ranging investigations. And the cost to investors and public companies would be sky high.
ESG / Corporate Governance
A fragmented approach to mandatory disclosure requirements risks damaging U.S. capital markets and weakening our economy’s competitiveness.
Further reading
- How Bank Mergers Promote CompetitionBank mergers help drive innovation and access to products and services for consumers. But proposed legislation could stifle deals at a time when new technologies and entrants are creating more competition than ever before.Learn More
- Main Street Business United Against Burdensome Bank RulesTo protect hometown businesses, more than 100 local chambers of commerce across America urge Biden Administration to scrap the “Basel III Endgame” banking rules.Learn More
- 3 Things You Need to Know About Stock BuybacksWith the potential for new legislative developments, now is a good time to take a closer look at stock buybacks: what they are, what they do, what motivates a company to make investment decisions, and who benefits when companies buy back their stock.Learn More
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This letter was sent to the Director-General for Competition at the European Commission to express the Chamber's serious concerns in relation to the European Commission Guidance on the application of the referral mechanism set out in Article 22 of the EU Merger Regulation.
This Hill letter was sent to the Members of the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs, opposing H.R. 2547, the "Comprehensive Debt Collection Improvement Act."
This Hill letter was sent to the Members of the U.S. House of Representatives, opposing H.R. 2668, the "Consumer Protection and Recovery Act."
This Coalition letter was sent to the Members of the Senate Committee Commerce, Science, and Transportation on the Federal Trade Commission's statutory authority and H.R. 2668, the "Consumer Protection and Recovery Act."
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Executive Vice President and Chief Policy Officer Neil Bradley released the following statement today regarding the administration’s Executive Order on Promoting Competition in the American Economy.
This Hill letter was sent to the Members of the U.S. House of Representatives, opposing H.R. 3849, H.R. 3816, H.R. 3825, and H.R. 3826. These bills are on the Legislative Leadership list for the “How They Voted” scorecard.
This Hill letter was sent to the Members of the U.S. House of Representatives, on H.R. 3684, the "Investing in a New Vision for the Environment and Surface Transportation (INVEST) in America Act."
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce writes to express our concerns with the Open Meeting scheduled for July 1, 2021 that was noticed on June 24, 2021.[1] Although the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC” or “Commission”) has expressed its intention to “open the work of the Commission” to the public, the FTC has failed to provide meaningful notice or adequate opportunity to comment on the pending items to be voted upon on July 1.
This Hill letter was sent to the Members of the House Committee on Appropriations, ahead of the committee's markup of the Fiscal Year 2022 Financial Services and General Government Appropriations bill,
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The following statement can be attributed to the Neil Bradley, executive vice president and chief policy officer, U.S. Chamber of Commerce. "What we have witnessed over the last two days is a failure to understand the central role the consumer plays in our antitrust laws. Further, efforts to politically target a handful of companies is a particularly bad look coming from the House Judiciary Committee, which should reflexively reject legislation that is arguably unconstitutional."