Exchequer Club

The Exchequer Club is a Washington, D.c. forum for financial-policy speeches, founded in 1960. Its membership of more than 300 senior professionals draws from trade associations, federal regulatory agencies, law firms, congressional committees and the national press, with a focus on national economic and financial policy.

It has hosted Comptrollers of the Currency, Treasury secretaries, members of Congress, and chairs of the Federal Reserve, the FDIC and the SEC, giving it a decades-long role as one of Washington's standard venues for senior financial regulators to set out policy positions in prepared text.

Because remarks there are drafted rather than spontaneous, phrase-level changes between a policymaker's Exchequer Club text and their prior public statements carry more weight than they would in an interview or a press conference, since a speaker choosing the club's platform is choosing to put considered wording on the record.