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Financial Services Forum

Trade association PAC FEC C00717686

Influence at a glance · Jan 2025 – Sep 2026Jan 25 – Sep 26 How we count
PAC giving to candidates$62K
Trade association lobbying, all issues $5.4M

Giving: FEC filings, net of refunds. Lobbying: the trade association’s own LD-2 reports, all issues, rounded to the nearest $10,000 each quarter. Two different filers, same 21 months.Lobbying: all issues, rounded to the nearest $10,000. Two filers, same 21 months. This PAC gives money raised from the trade association’s employees or members; the trade association itself can’t give to campaigns from its treasury.

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What they lobby on

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Financial Services Forum reported federal lobbying in 8 of the last 8 quarters (Q4 2024 to Q3 2026), with its own in-house lobbyists and 4 outside firms. What follows is what the filings say it lobbied on, not which way.

Issue areas ranked by quarters filedQ4 24 → Q3 26

  • Banking8 of 88/8
  • Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities8 of 88/8

From the filings

“Issues related to digital assets including market structure, payment stablecoins and issuers, and bank intermediation; H.R.3633, Digital Asset Market Clarity Act.”
Q3 2026 filing · Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
“Issues related to GSIBs, generally Issues related to bank capital requirements Issues related to bank safety, generally HR 3633, Clarity Act, issues related to yield and bank permissability Issues Related to crypto currency regulation, generally”
Q3 2026 filing · Banking

Contacted as listed on the filings

  • U.S. House
  • U.S. Senate
  • Federal Deposit Insurance CorporationFDIC
  • Federal Reserve System
  • Office of the Comptroller of the CurrencyOCC
  • Treasury
  • White House Office

The House and Senate appear in every quarter; agencies in all 8 quarters.

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Source: Lobbying Disclosure Act filings (LD-2) by Financial Services Forum, Senate Office of Public Records. Filings are due 20 days after each quarter ends.

From FEC filings: direct gifts this PAC reported, net of refunds · How we count

Gave directly to 29 sitting members of Congress in 2025–26.

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