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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The U.S. Chamber of Commerce respectfully submits this statement for the record for the House Financial Services Committee hearing entitled “AI Innovation Explored: Insights into AI Applications in Financial Services and Housing.”
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce Center for Capital Markets Competitiveness appreciates the opportunity to comment on the Securities and Exchange Commission Notice of Filing of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board Proposed Rules on A Firm’s System of Quality Control and Related Amendments to PCAOB Standards. The Chamber urges the SEC to reject the QC 1000 update from the PCAOB.
The whitepaper outlines a series of reforms the SEC should enact to improve its rulemaking process and to restore confidence in its role as an impartial regulator.
The Securities and Exchange Commission has not lived up to its role in maintaining the strength of our capital markets during the past three years.
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce supports H.R. 8071, 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 writes regarding recent correspondence to you from several Members of Congress, dated June 4, 2024, calling on the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to release “a statement to remind registrants that covered U.S. companies that are subject to alternative climate reporting regimes, such as those in California or the [European Union] or those promulgated by the [International Sustainability Standards Board], must comply with those reporting regimes.”
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce (“Chamber”) believes the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation’s (“FDIC”) proposed statement of policy on bank merger transactions (“Proposal” or “SOP”) lacks statutory authority, is substantively and procedurally deficient, and is unnecessary.
The SEC should return the focus of the proxy process to the long-term success of businesses