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Corporate Governance

U.S. corporations employ millions of American workers, create opportunity for employees and shareholders, drive innovation, improve the lives of consumers, and provide health care and other benefits to American families. The way corporations are governed directly affects the well-being of employees, shareholders and consumers.

Business Roundtable advocates for corporate governance policies that help create long-term value, advance the economic interests of workers, shareholders and consumers, and uphold the highest ethical standards.

Recent Activities in Corporate Governance

April 15, 2011
News Release

“Despite the clear legislative history to the contrary, the regulators continue to misinterpret the Dodd-Frank Act as giving them authority to impose margin requirements on end-users..."

April 12, 2011
Letter

The Coalition believes proper documentation of swap transactions is important to ensure that both parties to a transaction agree on its terms.

April 8, 2011
Letter

While we recognize the need to establish a derivatives regulatory regime quickly, it is more important that it be established correctly.

March 11, 2011
Letter

The Coalition has long supported an approach that focuses regulatory requirements on market participants that have the potential to pose risk to the financial system.

March 4, 2011
Letter

The Conflict Minerals Provision applies to issuers for whom conflict minerals are “necessary to the functionality or production of a product.”

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