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.
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Federal regulators are getting ready to implement new rules for banks. The result could be less credit and slower growth for American business.
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This timeline shows the ways in which Chairwoman Khan has moved to silence dissent at the FTC and consolidated power in ways that call into question the independence of the agency.
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The Federal Trade Commission’s lawsuit against Amazon poses some internal inconsistencies with the company’s practices and the agency’s rules.
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
- Why Selling Your Business Might Get HarderProposed antitrust legislation could impact the ability of everyone from individual entrepreneurs to multi-million-dollar companies to be acquired.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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Going public” has long been the goal of entrepreneurs who start a business from scratch, grow it into a thriving enterprise, then have the opportunity to offer shares to the general public through an initial public offering (IPO).
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, along with a host of partner organizations representing a diverse cross-section of the American economy, issued a new report today that offers a slate of recommendations for strengthening U.S. public capital markets by helping more companies go and stay public.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Chamber Center for Capital Markets Competitiveness President and CEO David Hirschmann issued the following statement in response to today’s open meeting of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC): “We appreciate the efforts of the SEC that led to these proposals for a best-interest standard for all investors.
Ahead of Acting Director Mulvaney's testimonies on Capitol Hill, the Chamber reasserts the need for CFPB reforms.
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce (Chamber) recommendations to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB or Bureau) in an effort to support the agency’s mission to protect consumers and to ensure clear, predictable, and efficient practices for market participants while eliminating unnecessary ambiguity.
The pay ratio will do nothing to improve our capital markets and little to improve the lot of working Americans.
The bill is the first significant revision Dodd-Frank and is product of years of bipartisan negotiations.
Offers Recommendations for Improving Consumer Protection, Accountability
This Key Vote Alert! letter was sent to all members of the U.S. Congress in support of H.R. 1625, the “Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2018.”
For almost a decade the Chamber has been warning the Department of Labor (DOL) of the dire consequences that would result from its rule...