Forum Mission

The Financial Services Forum is a non-partisan financial and economic policy organization comprising the CEOs of 19 of the largest and most diversified financial services institutions doing business in the United States.

The purpose of the Forum is to pursue policies that encourage savings and investment, promote an open and competitive global marketplace, and ensure the opportunity of people everywhere to participate fully and productively in the 21st-century global economy.

The Forum's three primary missions are:

1. To educate the public about the importance of robust capital markets;
2. To encourage a competitive global marketplace; and
3. To shape the national and international regulatory dialogue.

As a group, the Forum’s member institutions employ more than 2 million people in 175 countries.

The Forum also chairs the Engage China Coalition, 12 financial services trade associations united in our support of the goals of the U.S.-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue.

Lloyd Blankfein, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of The Goldman Sachs Group, is the Forum's chairman.

Rob Nichols, former assistant secretary for public affairs at the U.S. Treasury Department, serves as the Forum's president and chief executive officer.

The Forum was founded in 2000 and has been called "perhaps the country's most powerful trade association" by Time.