Access to China’s Financial Markets

SIFMA provides comments to U.S. Secretary of Treasury Jack Lew ahead of his visit to China. SIFMA expresses its continued concern over the inability of U.S. financial services firms to engage in China on a level playing field.  SIFMA strongly supports the Treasury Department’s ongoing engagement with China, most notably through the Strategic and Economic Dialogue (S&ED), which emphasizes market-opening reforms and seeks to eliminate barriers and restrictions in China’s financial services sector.   SIFMA urges that Secretary Lew to raise with his Chinese counterparts the ongoing market access issues and the necessity of a creating a level playing field for U.S. financial services firms in China.