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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Latest Content
Considering the broad scope of substantive issues raised in the RFI, the IFA and its members urge the FTC to extend the comment period under the RFI for an additional 60 days.
The Biden Administration seems determined to sideline consumers, and competition itself, from its competition policy.
The Chamber welcome the opportunity to provide the Canadian Government with comments in response to the consultation on the future of Canadian competition policy.
This Hill letter was sent to Members of the House Committee on Financial Services on several bills to be considered at the hearing entitled “U.S. Public Markets Built for the 21st Century: Exploring Reforms to Make Our Public Markets Attractive for Small and Emerging Companies Raising Capital.”
This Hill letter was sent to Members of the Senate Judiciary Committee ahead of the hearing entitled “Reining in Dominant Digital Platforms: Restoring Competition to Our Digital Markets.”
The FTC’s ban on noncompete agreements is another attempt at aggressive regulatory proliferation. That’s why we’re suing the FTC to block this unnecessary and unlawful rule.
This Hill letter was sent to Senators Warren and Whitehouse on the Chamber's stance on the FTC’s ban of noncompete clauses.
This Coalition letter was sent to the Members of the United States Congress, opposing the Federal Trade Commission's proposed rule on noncompete agreements.