Overview
Lobbying Costs
250,000€
Financial year: Apr 2019 - Mar 2020
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
1.5 Fte (4)
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
0
High-level Commission meetings
7
Lobbying Costs over the years
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Info
Alipay (Europe) Limited S.A.
EU Transparency Register
127713636440-67 First registered on 06 Nov 2019
Goals / Remit
Ant Group aims to create the infrastructure and platform to support the digital transformation of the service industry. We are the parent company of Alipay. We strive to enable all consumers and small businesses to have equal access to financial and other services that are inclusive, green and sustainable. Our mission is to make it easy to do business anywhere.
Main EU files targeted
- Digital Finance Strategy
- Retail Payments Strategy
- DORA
- MiCA
- PSD2
- EMD2
- AML Action Plan
- Data Governance framework / Data Act
- White Paper/Instrument on Foreign Subsidies
- General Data Protection Regulation
- Digital Services Act
- Digital Markets ActAddress
Head Office
9 Rue du Laboratoire
Luxembourg L-1911
LUXEMBOURGEU Office
Square de Meeus 38-40
Bruxelles 1000
BELGIUM -
People
Total lobbyists declared
4
Employment time Lobbyists 75% 1 25% 3 Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
1.5
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
No lobbyists with EP accreditations
Complementary Information
The above number reflects the Ant Group employees who are engaged in the activities described under heading 9. However, we have excluded from this figure Ant Group executives who spend de minimis percentage of their time in covered activities, such as occasional meeting attendance. In addition, Ant Group employs the services of a public affairs firm whose staff provide support for those activities. Those external resources are not included in the figure above.
Person in charge of EU relations
Data not provided by Register Secretariat due to GDPR
Person with legal responsibility
Data not provided by Register Secretariat due to GDPR
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Categories
Category
II - In-house lobbyists and trade/business/professional associations
Subcategory
Companies & groups
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Networking
Affiliation
The E-Money Association
Member organisations
None declared
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Financial Data
Closed financial year
Apr 2019 - Mar 2020
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
250,000€
Other financial info
Consistent with the Transparency Register Implementing Guidelines, the above estimate of annual costs relates to Ant Group's most recent closed financial year, which ended on 03/2020.
This estimate includes the salaries of Ant Group employees proportional to their engagement in the activities described under heading 9, fees for the service of a public affairs firm, as well as membership fees for the association listed above. -
EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
none
Groups (European Parliament)
N/A
Communication activities
None
Other activities
None declared
- Meetings
Meetings
7 meetings found. Download meetings
The list below only covers meetings held since November 2014 with commissioners, their cabinet members or directors-general at the European Commission; other lobby meetings with lower-level staff may have taken place, but the European Commission doesn't proactively publish information about these meetings. For more information about which commissioner is responsible for which portfolio, check out this link: https://commissioners.ec.europa.eu/index_en All information below comes from European Commission web pages.
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Date 30 Aug 2022 Location Virtual Subject Payments services Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Mairead Mcguinness Portfolio Financial services, financial stability and Capital Markets Union Attending - Nicolo Brignoli (Cabinet member)
- Florian Denis (Cabinet member)
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Date 15 Jun 2022 Location Brussels Subject Digital finance, open banking Cabinet Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Valdis Dombrovskis Portfolio An Economy that Works for People Attending - Andrea Beltramello (Cabinet member)
Other Lobbyists -
Date 17 Jan 2022 Location Virtual meeting Subject Discussion on Instant Payments / standardisation of QR codes. Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Mairead Mcguinness Portfolio Financial services, financial stability and Capital Markets Union Attending - Nicolo Brignoli (Cabinet member)
Other Lobbyists -
Date 27 May 2021 Location video-conference Subject Green financial products Cabinet Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Valdis Dombrovskis Portfolio An Economy that Works for People Attending - Andrea Beltramello (Cabinet member)
Other Lobbyists -
Date 25 Jan 2021 Location virtual Subject Digital Finance. Digital transformation. Retail Payments Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Mairead Mcguinness Portfolio Financial services, financial stability and Capital Markets Union Attending - Agnieszka Drzewoska (Cabinet member)
- Florian Denis (Cabinet member)
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Date 24 Aug 2020 Location videocall Subject EU retail payments strategy Cabinet Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Valdis Dombrovskis Portfolio An Economy that Works for People Attending - Andrea Beltramello (Cabinet member)
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Date 23 Jan 2020 Location Davos Subject FinTech developments and digital transformation Cabinet Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Valdis Dombrovskis Portfolio An Economy that Works for People Attending - Valdis Dombrovskis (Executive Vice-President)
- Meetings