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Calls on U.S. exchanges to immediately halt new IPOs and delist Chinese companies.
WASHINGTON – The American Securities Association (ASA) today announced its support for the No IPOs for Unaccountable Actors Act, bipartisan legislation sponsored by Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) and Senator Bob Casey (D-PA), to prohibit initial public offerings (IPOs) on U.S. exchanges for Chinese companies that are out of compliance with U.S. regulations.
“ASA strongly supports Senators Rubio and Casey for their bipartisan efforts to ban Chinese Communist Party-controlled companies who skirt our securities laws from accessing the U.S. capital markets and defrauding America’s mom-and-pop investors,” said ASA CEO Chris Iacovella. “While Congress should quickly pass the No IPOs for Unaccountable Actors Act, it’s also time for U.S. exchanges to ensure American investor money is not used to finance Beijing’s egregious human rights abuses and genocide by immediately halting Chinese company IPOs and delisting every Chinese company from their exchange until those companies can prove they are NOT controlled by the CCP.”
For years, ASA has been at the forefront of advocacy to end China’s fraud on our markets. Earlier this month, ASA applauded the Biden Administration for issuing an Executive Order banning American investment in companies financing Communist China. In March, ASA submitted testimony ahead of a U.S. – China Economic and Security Review Commission hearing on U.S. investment in China’s capital markets and military-industrial complex. In December, ASA penned a Letter to the Editor of the Wall Street Journal calling for real audits for Chinese firms. To read ASA CEO Iacovella’s op-ed in RealClearPolitics, click here.
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