Businesses of all sizes need well-functioning and multi-faceted capital markets. Excessive and unnecessary banking and securities regulations constrain access to capital for businesses, making it harder for them to form and grow. The Chamber believes a free and efficient capital market system is essential to economic growth and innovation.
In addition, public companies are facing increasing outside pressure to focus on short term gains and special interests over long term wellbeing and investment. The Chamber is focused on rebalancing the system to reinvigorate the public company model.
The Chamber will defend America’s financial institutions and our capital markets from destructive attacks. We should be praising and perfecting our capital markets as a crown jewel of our economic system—not trying to tear them down.
This Key Vote Alert! letter was sent to all members of the U.S. House of Representatives in support of S. 2155, the “Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief, and Consumer Protection Act.”
The Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection has the opportunity to make meaningful changes to create a more mature, data-driven agency.
The decline in public companies has created fewer opportunities for American families and businesses.
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).
Join CCMC at the 12th Annual Capital Markets Summit to discuss Washington’s renewed efforts to create the best financial regulatory system for businesses, consumers, and investors alike. At the Summit, we bring together high-level attendees, major media outlets, and leaders from the public and private sectors, to broadly focus on the state of financial regulation and the impact on the economy’s ability to grow.
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.
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 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.
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