Banking & Payments Federation Ireland

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Overview

Lobbying Costs

350,000€

Financial year: Dec 2014 - Dec 2015

Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)

3 Fte (9)

Lobbyists with EP accreditation

1

High-level Commission meetings

27

Lobbying Costs over the years

  • Info

    Banking & Payments Federation Ireland   (BPFI)

    EU Transparency Register

    981559116223-93 First registered on 25 Feb 2015

    Goals / Remit

    Banking & Payments Federation Ireland (BPFI) is the voice of banking and payments in Ireland. Representing over 70 domestic and international members institutions, we mobilise the sector’s collective resources and insights to deliver value and benefit to members, enabling them to build competitive sustainable businesses which support customers, the economy and society.
    We work in partnership with stakeholders to deliver the following goals:

    - facilitate an environment that is conducive to sustainable and profitable banking and payments activity and which supports customers, the economy and society
    - bring timely representation, insight and influence to bear on the shaping of national and EU regulation, initiatives and thinking
    - provide thought leadership and proactive interventions on matters of common interest to the sector and the wider economy
    - actively engage and work to restore trust and confidence in the sector
    - develop and lead a strategic vision for a modern and compliant payments infrastructure in the interest of all stakeholders.

    Through the work of our Brussels based office, our active membership of the European Banking Federation and our well-established EU and international networks, we represent Ireland’s banking and payments industry at an international level.

    Main EU files targeted

    The main initiatives , policies and legislative issues followed by BPFI include those associated with facilitating an environment that is conducive to sustainable and profitable banking and payments activity which supports customers, the economy and society, bring timely representation, insight and influence to bear on the shaping of national and EU regulation, initiatives and thinking, matters of common interest to the sector and the wider economy and leading a strategic vision for a modern and compliant payments infrastructure in the interest of all stakeholders.

    The main initiatives followed include BRRD, CRR/CRD IV, DGS, EDIS, EMIR, MiFID II / MiFIR, Banking Union, Capital Markets Union, Securitisation, Financial Transaction Tax, AMLD, PSD, Corporate governance, Data protection, cyber security, digital single market, action plan for retail financial services.

    Address

    Head Office
    Nassau House
    Nassau Street
    Dublin
    IRELAND
    EU Office
    56 avenue des Arts
    B-1000
    Brussels
    BELGIUM
  • People

    Total lobbyists declared

    9

    Employment timeLobbyists
    100%1
    25%8

    Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)

    3

    Lobbyists with EP accreditation

    All Lobbyists with EP accreditation over time

    1 accreditations were / are live (in bold) for the selected state of 16 Mar 2017

    Name Start date End Date
    Mr Peter Mc Guigan 14 Dec 2023 13 Dec 2024
    Ms Eilish MURPHY 09 Nov 2023 08 Nov 2024
    Mr Peter Mc Guigan 06 Jul 2022 06 Jul 2023
    Mr Peter McGuigan 06 Jul 2022 16 May 2023
    Niamh O'Donnellan 27 Aug 2019 27 Aug 2020
    Mr Maurice Crowley 27 Aug 2019 27 Aug 2020
    Mr Peter McGuigan 27 Aug 2019 27 Aug 2020
    Mr Russell Bryce 25 Oct 2018 25 Oct 2019
    Niamh O'Donnellan 15 Jun 2018 15 Jun 2019
    Mr Maurice Crowley 15 Jun 2018 15 Jun 2019
    Mr Russell Bryce 10 Nov 2017 25 Oct 2018
    Niamh O'Donnellan 23 May 2017 20 May 2018
    Mr Maurice Crowley 05 Apr 2017 04 Apr 2018
    Niamh O'Donnellan 21 May 2016 20 May 2017

    Complementary Information

    None declared

    Person in charge of EU relations

    Ms Niamh O'Donnellan (Head of EU Affairs)

    Person with legal responsibility

    Mr Noel Brett (Chief Executive)

  • Categories

    Category

    II - In-house lobbyists and trade/business/professional associations

    Subcategory

    Trade and business associations

  • Networking

    Affiliation

    http://www.bpfi.ie/about-bpfi/members-list/bpfi-members/

    Member organisations

    European Banking Federation (EBF)

  • Financial Data

    Closed financial year

    Dec 2014 - Dec 2015

    Lobbying costs for closed financial year

    350,000€

    Other financial info

    The estimated costs declared above include the percentage of the annual membership fee to the European Banking Federation (EBF) that the EBF dedicates to activities covered by the EU Transparency Register.

  • EU Structures

    Groups (European Commission)

    None

    ACC

    None

    Groups (European Parliament)

    None

    Communication activities

    None

    Other activities

    None declared

  • Meetings

    Meetings

    27 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.

    • Date 23 Jan 2024 Location Brussels
      Subject Digital euro, Payment Services Regulation
      DG Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union
      Attending
      • John Berrigan (Director-General)
      Other Lobbyists
    • Date 28 Feb 2023 Location Brussels
      Subject Instant payments, financial literacy, payments
      Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Mairead Mcguinness
      Portfolio Financial services, financial stability and Capital Markets Union
      Attending
      • Patricia Reilly (Cabinet member)
      • Agnieszka Drzewoska (Cabinet member)
      • Florian Denis (Cabinet member)
      Other Lobbyists
    • Date 28 Sep 2022 Location Brussels
      Subject MiFIR review and third country branches
      DG Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union
      Attending
      • John Berrigan (Director-General)
      Other Lobbyists
    • Date 27 Sep 2022 Location Brussels
      Subject Basel iii; MiFIR review proposal; the macro-prudential framework
      Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Mairead Mcguinness
      Portfolio Financial services, financial stability and Capital Markets Union
      Attending
      • Patricia Reilly (Cabinet member)
      • Tommy De Temmerman (Cabinet member)
      Other Lobbyists
    • Date 14 Jun 2022 Location Brussels
      Subject Retail banking landscape, Basel III
      DG Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union
      Attending
      • John Berrigan (Director-General)
    • Date 13 Jun 2022 Location Virtual Meeting
      Subject Basel III
      Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Mairead Mcguinness
      Portfolio Financial services, financial stability and Capital Markets Union
      Attending
      • Tommy De Temmerman (Cabinet member)
    • Date 13 Jan 2022 Location Brussels
      Subject Banking package, AML, sustainability
      Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Mairead Mcguinness
      Portfolio Financial services, financial stability and Capital Markets Union
      Attending
      • Mairead McGuinness (Commissioner)
      • Tommy De Temmerman (Cabinet member)
      Other Lobbyists
    • Date 11 Jan 2022 Location Virtual meeting
      Subject Investment Firms prudential framework
      Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Mairead Mcguinness
      Portfolio Financial services, financial stability and Capital Markets Union
      Attending
      • Tommy De Temmerman (Cabinet member)
      Other Lobbyists
    • Date 11 Jan 2022 Location Video call
      Subject Investment Firms prudential framework
      Cabinet Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Valdis Dombrovskis
      Portfolio An Economy that Works for People
      Attending
      • Andrea Beltramello (Cabinet member)
      Other Lobbyists
    • Date 08 Sep 2021 Location Ljubljana, Slovenia
      Subject Courtesy meeting
      DG Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union
      Attending
      • John Berrigan (Director-General)
      Other Lobbyists
    • Date 30 Jun 2021 Location video call
      Subject Banking and payments federation of Ireland(hosting, other bank associations invited) The topic of the meeting was operational risk
      Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Mairead Mcguinness
      Portfolio Financial services, financial stability and Capital Markets Union
      Attending
      • Tommy De Temmerman (Cabinet member)
    • Date 28 Jun 2021 Location Video conferencing
      Subject Basel III
      Cabinet Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Valdis Dombrovskis
      Portfolio An Economy that Works for People
      Attending
      • Michael Hager (Cabinet member)
      Other Lobbyists
    • Date 01 Jun 2021 Location Video Conferencing
      Subject Capital Markets Digital Finance Brexit.
      Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Mairead Mcguinness
      Portfolio Financial services, financial stability and Capital Markets Union
      Attending
      • Mairead McGuinness (Commissioner)
      • Deirdre O’Hea (Cabinet member)
    • Date 26 Mar 2021 Location Video conferencing
      Subject Basel 111
      Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Mairead Mcguinness
      Portfolio Financial services, financial stability and Capital Markets Union
      Attending
      • Mairead McGuinness (Commissioner)
    • Date 24 Mar 2021 Location virtual call
      Subject Basel III and Covid Response
      Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Mairead Mcguinness
      Portfolio Financial services, financial stability and Capital Markets Union
      Attending
      • Peter Power (Cabinet member)
      • Tommy De Temmerman (Cabinet member)
    • Date 03 Feb 2021 Location Virtual
      Subject CMU, digital finance, brexit, Basel III
      Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Mairead Mcguinness
      Portfolio Financial services, financial stability and Capital Markets Union
      Attending
      • Tommy De Temmerman (Cabinet member)
      • Nathalie De Basaldua Lemarchand (Cabinet member)
      • Peter Power (Cabinet member)
    • Date 01 Dec 2020 Location Virtual
      Subject Taxonomy delegated acts
      Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Mairead Mcguinness
      Portfolio Financial services, financial stability and Capital Markets Union
      Attending
      • Katherine Power (Cabinet member)
    • Date 16 Oct 2020 Location Virtual meeting
      Subject EU banking sector/wider economy
      DG Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union
      Attending
      • John Berrigan (Director-General)
    • Date 06 Dec 2018 Location Brussels
      Subject Banking Union to complete
      Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Valdis Dombrovskis
      Portfolio Euro and Social Dialogue, also in charge of Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union
      Attending
      • Valdis Dombrovskis (Vice-President)
      • Jan Ceyssens (Cabinet member)
    • Date 26 Jun 2018 Location Brussels
      Subject Brexit
      Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Phil Hogan
      Portfolio Agriculture &amp; Rural Development
      Attending
      • Dermot Ryan (Cabinet member)
    • Date 19 Jun 2018 Location Brussels
      Subject Banking Union
      Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Valdis Dombrovskis
      Portfolio Euro and Social Dialogue, also in charge of Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union
      Attending
      • Andrea Beltramello (Cabinet member)
    • Date 19 Jun 2018 Location Brussels
      Subject Banking Union
      Cabinet Cabinet of President Jean-Claude Juncker
      Portfolio President
      Attending
      • Paulina Dejmek Hack (Cabinet member)
    • Date 31 Aug 2017 Location Brussels
      Subject PSD2
      Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Valdis Dombrovskis
      Portfolio Euro and Social Dialogue, also in charge of Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union
      Attending
      • Elina Melngaile (Cabinet member)
      Other Lobbyists
    • Date 01 Jun 2017 Location Brussels
      Subject Retail, Wholesale and Payments Sectors
      Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Phil Hogan
      Portfolio Agriculture &amp; Rural Development
      Attending
      • Shane Sutherland (Cabinet member)
    • Date 01 Jun 2017 Location Brussels
      Subject Banking Union; CMU, EU Economic, Monetary and Financial Services agenda
      Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Valdis Dombrovskis
      Portfolio Euro and Social Dialogue, also in charge of Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union
      Attending
      • Jan Ceyssens (Cabinet member)
      • Valdis Dombrovskis (Vice-President)
    • Date 24 May 2017 Location Brussels
      Subject Introduction of the Banking & Payments Federation Ireland
      Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Valdis Dombrovskis
      Portfolio Euro and Social Dialogue, also in charge of Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union
      Attending
      • Jan Ceyssens (Cabinet member)
    • Date 15 May 2017 Location Brussels
      Subject Payments Sector
      Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Phil Hogan
      Portfolio Agriculture &amp; Rural Development
      Attending
      • Shane Sutherland (Cabinet member)
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