Center for Capital Markets Competitiveness
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The Center for Capital Markets Competitiveness’ (CCMC) mission is to advance America’s global leadership in capital formation by supporting diverse capital markets that are the most fair, transparent, efficient, and innovative in the world.
CCMC advocates on behalf of American businesses to ensure that legislation and regulation strengthen our capital markets allowing businesses—from the local flower shop to a multinational manufacturer—to mitigate risks, manage liquidity, access credit, and raise capital.
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Tom QuaadmanExecutive Vice President, Center for Capital Markets Competitiveness (CCMC) Bill HulseSenior Vice President, Center for Capital Markets Competitiveness Evan WilliamsVice President, Center for Capital Markets Competitiveness Kristen MalinconicoSenior Director, Center for Capital Markets Competitiveness
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WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Center for Capital Markets Competitiveness (CCMC), in conjunction with Nasdaq, today released its annual proxy season survey that found rising concern among public companies about inaccurate information and conflicts of interest within proxy advisory firms.
This Hill letter was sent to the House Financial Services Committee, on the committee's hearing, “America for Sale? An Examination of the Practices of Private Funds” and to oppose H.R. 3848.
This Hill letter was sent to the U.S. House of Representatives, supporting H.R. 5084, the “Improving Corporate Governance through Diversity Act of 2019.”
Bringing greater transparency and oversight to the proxy firms and the shareholder proposal process is necessary.
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This Hill letter was sent to Representative Bryan Steil, supporting his bill, H.R. 4918, the "Helping Startups Continue to Grow Act."
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Chamber commends the SEC on today’s long overdue proposed regulatory action on proxy advisory firm and shareholder reforms. These proposals will both ensure investors will have access to transparent and unconflicted proxy advice as well as improve the proxy submission process that has not been updated in over 50 years.
Suzanne Clark provides the opening keynote address and details how the Chamber will lead a new Initiative called Project GO.
The Project for Growth and Opportunity will begin by addressing board diversity, expanding investment opportunities, and encouraging environmental, social, and governance disclosures
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Center for Capital Markets Competitiveness (CCMC) today released a new report that examines insurance capital standards and discusses one of the chief proposed methods of estimating insurance group capital, the aggregation method (AM), currently under development by U.S. regulators.