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Overview
Lobbying Costs
10,000€
Financial year: Jan 2020 - Dec 2020
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
2.5 Fte (6)
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
0
High-level Commission meetings
1
Lobbying Costs over the years
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Info
European Digital Finance Association (EDFA)
EU Transparency Register
497284939842-90 First registered on 06 Oct 2020
Goals / Remit
EDFA objectives are to advocate for better access to modern, more affordable and secure financial services and to enhance innovation in the financial sector by means of emerging digital technologies through promoting technological development, discussing relevant legal changes and supporting innovative business ecosystem that accord with the relevant principles of EU and international law, promote the industry best practices, meet the highest standards of customer protection, transparency, cybersecurity, privacy, and sustainability. EDFA wants to achieve these objectives by:
a. Maintaining a permanent and constructive dialogue with relevant European institutions, regulatory authorities and governmental bodies,
b. Representing its members vis-a-vis all relevant national, regional and global stakeholders
c. Identifying, and attempting to resolve, in part or in whole, obstacles for financial innovation and technology deployment in the Digital Single Market and in the global context.Main EU files targeted
- Digital finance strategy
- Regulation on markets in crypto-assets
- Regulation on a pilot regime for market infrastructures based on distributed ledger technology
- EU regulatory framework on digital operational resilience
- Retail Payments Strategy for the EU
- AML Package
- AI Act
- Data Act
- Digital Market Act
https://ec.europa.eu/info/publications/200924-digital-finance-proposals_enAddress
Head Office
SQ central Cantersteen 47
Brussels 1000
BELGIUMEU Office
SQ central Cantersteen 47
Brussels 1000
BELGIUMWebsite
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People
Total lobbyists declared
6
Employment time Lobbyists 50% 4 25% 2 Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
2.5
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
No lobbyists with EP accreditations
Complementary Information
None declared
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
Trade and business associations
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Networking
Affiliation
None declared
Member organisations
None declared
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Financial Data
Interests represented
Promotes their own interests or the collective interests of their members
Closed financial year
Jan 2020 - Dec 2020
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
10,000€
Major contributions in closed year
None declared
Intermediaries for closed year
None declaredIntermediaries for current year
None declaredClosed year Costs
0€ - 10,000€
Other financial info
None declared
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EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
Expert group on European financial data space#E03763#Staszkiewicz Maria#https://ec.europa.eu/transparency/expert-groups-register/screen/expert-groups/consult?groupID=3763 #Member #B#Other#Subgroup on open finance
Groups (European Parliament)
N/A
Communication activities
None
Other activities
None declared
- Meetings
Meetings
1 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 28 Mar 2023 Location Brussels Subject Round-Table on Digital Euro (with EVP Dombrovskis and DG FISMA) Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Mairead Mcguinness Portfolio Financial services, financial stability and Capital Markets Union Attending - Mairead McGuinness (Commissioner)
- Florian Denis (Cabinet member)
Other Lobbyists - Afore Consulting
- Finance Denmark
- European Third Party Providers Association
- Crédit Agricole S.A.
- CaixaBank, S.A.
- Worldline
- Nexi Group
- N26
- Bundesverband der Deutschen Volksbanken und Raiffeisenbanken
- European Savings and Retail Banking Group
- Electronic Money Association
- European Association of Co-operative Banks
- European Banking Federation
- Deutscher Sparkassen-und Giroverband
- PPRO Financial Ltd
- Payments Europe
- European FinTech Association
- American Express Corporation
- Meetings