Finance
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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
The CFPB issued a rule that would lower the allowed late fee charge by many credit card issuers, punishing consumers who pay their credit card bills on time.
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce strongly supports H.J.Res.122/S.J. Res.70, a resolution of disapproval under the Congressional Review Act to nullify the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) Final Rule on Credit Card Penalty Fees.
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce supports S. 3541, the “Fair Audits and Inspections for Regulators’ Exam Act,” which would establish an even-handed supervisory process to enhance accountability in bank examinations.
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce urges the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to suspend action on the proposed rule to amend certain substantive bases for exclusion of shareholder proposals under Exchange Act Rule 14a-8 (Proposal) until the effects of the November 2021 Staff Legal Bulletin 14L (SLB 14L) are fully analyzed and the SEC provides an opportunity for further public comment.
The Center for Capital Markets Competitiveness (“CCMC”) believes the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (“CFPB”) Notice of Proposed Rulemaking for Overdraft Lending: Very Large Financial Institutions (the “Proposed Rule”) should be withdrawn.
The FTC's recent move to prevent the proposed merger between two large grocery chains, Kroger and Albertsons, relies on unsound legal theories that would jeopardize American free enterprise.
U.S. Chamber of Commerce Submits Comments on Federal Reserve's Quantitative Impact Study on Basel III Endgame Rule