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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The average payout for consumers in class action lawsuits is about $32 while the average plaintiff’s lawyer pockets $1 million.
The Securities and Exchange Commission is often referred to as “Wall Street’s regulator,” and when people think about the SEC, their minds can often turn to the movies where lawyers in trench coats show up to bust somebody for bad behavior.
The CFPB wants to stop the use of an efficient, cost-effective dispute resolution tool for consumers and businesses.
Changes Would Help Protect Investors, Incentivize Businesses to Go Public, and Generate Economic Growth
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Lisa A. Rickard, president of the U.S. Chamber Institute for Legal Reform (ILR), and David Hirschmann, president and CEO of the U.S. Chamber Center for Capital Markets Competitiveness (CCMC), issued the following statement today following House passage of H.J. Res. 111, disapproving of the CFPB’s arbitration rule:
TO MEMBERS OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES: The U.S. Chamber of Commerce (“Chamber”) urges you to support H.J. Res. 111, which would undo a rule left over by the Obama Administration and recently finalized by an out of control Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). The Chamber will consider including votes on, or in relation to, this bill in our annual How They Voted scorecard.
Rep. Luetkemeyer introduced a bipartisan bill that rethinks how we approach bank supervision and prudential standards.
After two years of waiting, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau released its anti-arbitration rule last week.
Tom Quaadman's testimony to the House Committee on Financial Services Subcommittee on Capital Markets, Securities, and Investment on the cost of being a public company in light of Sarbanes-Oxley and the federalization of corporate governance.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Lisa A. Rickard, president of the U.S. Chamber Institute for Legal Reform (ILR), and David Hirschmann, president and CEO of the U.S. Chamber Center for Capital Markets Competitiveness (CCMC), issued the following statement today on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s (CFPB) final rule to effectively prohibit class action waivers in consumer financial services contracts:
