<div id="readability-page-1"><div><ul><li>Key insight: The Financial Services Forum launched American Growth Alliance, a 501(c)(4) that allows banks more opaque donor disclosure than traditional PACs require.</li><li>Expert quote: New Forum CEO Amanda Eversole signals departure from the group's low-profile approach and seeks to foster bipartisan agreement on economic issues like job creation and business affordability.</li><li>What's at stake: Some of the Forum's members include JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, Citigroup and Bank of America. </li></ul>WASHINGTON — The Financial Services Forum has started a 501(c)(4), a spending group, called American Growth Alliance that says it will advocate on economic issues across partisan lines.Under the tax code, 501(c)(4) s are tax-exempt organizations whose donors do not have to be disclosed, as opposed to Political Action Committees, whose donors must be disclosed to the Federal Election Commission. American Growth Alliance said that current members of the Financial Services Forum — including Bank of America, BNY, Citi, Goldman Sachs, JPMorganChase, Morgan Stanley, State Street and Wells Fargo — are supporters of the new advocacy group. The Forum's Board of Directors is chaired by Citi CEO Jane Fraser. The crypto industry has used 501(c)(4) s to great effect in the last few years, as the industry's political spending towered over banks' in the 2024 election cycle. But this move represents a more aggressive lobbying posture for the banking industry. Kevin Fromer, who led Financial Services Forum for years after the 2008 financial crisis, helped the nation's largest banks keep a low profile and work behind the scenes on core issues like bank capital and liquidity, rather than applying brute lobbying force to counter nascent threats from fintech and crypto competitors. But with Fromer's departure earlier this year, Financial Services Forum brought in Amanda Eversole as president and CEO. She's an oil and gas lobbying veteran, and has signaled that under her leadership, the forum will take a more vocal approach. &#34;American families and businesses are strongest when they are supported by a stable economy — where hard work is rewarded, opportunity is strengthened, and small and large businesses can thrive,&#34; Eversole said in a statement. &#34;The American Growth Alliance represents a new initiative that will raise greater awareness of an array of important national economic and financial issues and priorities such as job creation and affordability. Moreover, the AGA will have a bipartisan agenda, supporting leaders who advance the commonsense financial and economic policies that benefit all Americans.&#34;</div></div>

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金融服务论坛已成立美国增长联盟，这是一个 501(c)(4) 的倡导组织，旨在促进具有两党支持的经济问题。与传统的政治行动委员会相比，这个新组织允许更不透明的捐赠者披露。由新任首席执行官阿曼达·埃弗索尔（Amanda Eversole）领导的这一举措，标志着论坛从之前的低调方式转向对经济政策更为积极的立场。摩根大通、高盛和美国银行等主要银行是其支持者

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