Overview
Lobbying Costs
100,000€ - 199,999€
Financial year: Jan 2023 - Dec 2023
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
1 Fte (4)
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
0
High-level Commission meetings
9
Lobbying Costs over the years
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Info
European FinTech Association (EFA)
EU Transparency Register
514240237898-38 First registered on 21 Apr 2020
Goals / Remit
The European FinTech Association (EFA) is a non-profit organisation that brings together FinTechs from across Europe to speak with one voice for the FinTech sector. Located in Brussels, the EFA serves as an advocate for the interests of its varied membership before the European institutions. The Association unites a diverse group of FinTech providers ranging from payments, to lending, banking, robo-advice, investment as well as software as a service for the finance sector across a number of European member states.
Founded in 2019, the organisation is the result of the union of two separate groupings, FinTechs for Europe and the European FinTech Alliance, that gathered forces to ensure that Europe remains at the forefront of the digital economy through the promotion of a thriving FinTech sector.Main EU files targeted
• Retail Payments Strategy for the EU
• Digital Finance Strategy for the EU
• Payment Services Directive 2
• Proposal for a Regulation on establishing a framework for a European Digital Identity
• Digital Euro
• Proposal for a Regulation laying down harmonised rules on Artificial Intelligence (Artificial Intelligence Act)
• Revision of the Settlement Finality Directive
• Retail Investment Strategy for the EU
• Review of the Capital Requirements Regulation (CRR)
• Review of the Capital Requirements Directive (CRD IV)
• Review of the Directive on Credit Agreements for Consumers
• Proposal for a Regulation establishing the Authority for Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism
• Proposal for a Directive on the mechanisms to be put in place by the Member States for the prevention of the use of the financial system for the purposes of money laundering or terrorist financing (AMLD 6)
• Proposal for a Regulation on the prevention of the use of the financial system for the purposes of money laundering or terrorist financing (AMLR)
• Proposal for a Regulation on Instant Payments
• Open Finance Strategy
• Proposal on harmonised rules on fair access to and use of data (Data Act)Address
Head Office
Rue Washington 40
Ixelles 1050
BELGIUMEU Office
Rue Washington 40
Ixelles 1050
BELGIUMWebsite
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People
Total lobbyists declared
4
Employment time Lobbyists 25% 4 Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
1
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 2023 - Dec 2023
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
100,000€ - 199,999€
Major contributions in closed year
None declared
Intermediaries for closed year
Name Amount fti consulting 100,000€ - 199,999€ Intermediaries for current year
Name fti consulting Closed year Costs
100,000€ - 199,999€
Other financial info
None declared
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EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
none
Groups (European Parliament)
N/A
Communication activities
None
Other activities
None declared
Meetings
Meetings
9 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.
1 July 2024: We have noted that some meetings are appearing in duplicate, ie. some meetings seem to be listed twice. This seems to be because the Commission changes some element of a meeting data after the meeting has first been listed, which causes LobbyFacts to register it as a new meeting. We are investigating further.
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Date 18 Jul 2023 Location Brussels Subject Distribution of Retail financial products Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Mairead Mcguinness Portfolio Financial services, financial stability and Capital Markets Union Attending - Mairead McGuinness (Commissioner)
- Agnieszka Drzewoska (Cabinet member)
- Patricia Reilly (Cabinet member)
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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 - Florian Denis (Cabinet member)
- Mairead McGuinness (Commissioner)
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Date 18 Nov 2022 Location BERL Subject digital finance 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 17 Nov 2022 Location Brussels Subject Digital financial services Cabinet Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Margrethe Vestager Portfolio Europe Fit for Digital Age Attending - Werner Stengg (Cabinet member)
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Date 04 Mar 2022 Location Virtual Meeting Subject Retail Investment Strategy Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Mairead Mcguinness Portfolio Financial services, financial stability and Capital Markets Union Attending - Nicolo Brignoli (Cabinet member)
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Date 28 Jan 2022 Location Berlin, Germany Subject Presentation of FinTech start-ups Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Mairead Mcguinness Portfolio Financial services, financial stability and Capital Markets Union Attending - Mairead McGuinness (Commissioner)
- Tommy De Temmerman (Cabinet member)
- Nathalie De Basaldua Lemarchand (Cabinet member)
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Date 14 Jan 2022 Location Virtual Meeting Subject Retail payments strategy, instant payments. Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Mairead Mcguinness Portfolio Financial services, financial stability and Capital Markets Union Attending - Nicolo Brignoli (Cabinet member)
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Date 23 Nov 2021 Location Virtual meeting Subject Digital payments DG Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union Attending - John Berrigan (Director-General)
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Date 03 Jun 2021 Location Video Conferencing Subject Address Annual Assembly Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Mairead Mcguinness Portfolio Financial services, financial stability and Capital Markets Union Attending - Mairead McGuinness (Commissioner)