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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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."
This Hill letter was sent to the House Committee on the Judiciary, on several bills the committee will mark up related to antitrust law.
This Hill letter was sent to Members of the House of Representatives supporting the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency’s (OCC) rule on “National Banks and Federal Savings Associations as Lenders,” also known as the “True Lender” Rule, and opposing S.J.Res.15.
This Key Vote Alert! letter was sent to Members of the House of Representatives opposing H.R. 1187, the “Corporate Governance Improvement and Investor Protection Act.”
This Hill letter was sent to the Members of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, opposing H.R. 2668, the "Consumer Protection and Recovery Act."
This Hill letter was sent to the Members of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, on H.R. 2668, the “Consumer Protection and Recovery Act."
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Tom Quaadman, executive vice president, Center for Capital Markets Competitiveness, U.S. Chamber of Commerce issued the following statement today regarding President Biden’s climate finance executive order:
Every American dream is different, every American dream is unique. But whatever that dream is, there’s a good chance it was made possible by a loan from one of America’s financial institutions. These American dreams come in every shape and size, and so do the banks which support them. Some funding comes from large banks, some from local community banks, some from commercial lending institutions, or minority depository institutions.
The Biden Administration's proposed tax increases ignore the millions of Americans who will pay the price of the proposed tax increases.
This Hill letter was sent to the Members of the House Financial Services Committee, on a markup the committee is holding on May 12.