Overview
Lobbying Costs
75,000€
Financial year: Mar 2015 - Mar 2016
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
2.5 Fte (4)
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
0
High-level Commission meetings
19
Lobbying Costs over the years
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Info
TransferWise Ltd
EU Transparency Register
843309518020-96 First registered on 30 Jun 2015
Goals / Remit
We’re making the world a bit better by helping to make the financial system fair.
When you transfer money internationally, banks and brokers often hide the real cost so you end up paying more in fees than you thought you were going to.
Sometimes this is because of the mark-up they put on the exchange rate or because there are additional fees that they just don’t tell you about upfront.
At TransferWise, we’re always completely transparent about the total charge and we make that as low as we can. TransferWise is the cheapest and fairest way of transferring money internationally. We’re making sure that it’s our customers that benefit and not the banking system.Main EU files targeted
The Payment Services Directives, Electronic Money Directive, Anti-Money Laundering Directive, Cross-Border Payments Regulation, Single European Payments Area, General Data Protection Regulation
Address
Head Office
6th Floor
The Tea Building
London E1 6JJ
UNITED KINGDOM -
People
Total lobbyists declared
4
Employment time Lobbyists 100% 2 25% 2 Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
2.5
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
All Lobbyists with EP accreditation over time
0 accreditations were / are live (in bold) for the selected state of 23 May 2017
Name Start date End Date Ms Linda Strazdina 17 Jan 2023 17 Jan 2024 Ms Brigit CARROLL 14 Nov 2019 14 Nov 2020 Ms Jessica BILCOCK 14 Nov 2019 14 Nov 2020 Ms Magali VAN BULCK 14 Nov 2019 14 Nov 2020 Ms Flora COLEMAN 21 Nov 2018 21 Nov 2019 Ms Jessica BILCOCK 10 Oct 2018 01 Nov 2019 Ms Magali VAN BULCK 10 Oct 2018 01 Nov 2019 Ms Flora COLEMAN 09 Nov 2017 09 Nov 2018 Complementary Information
None declared
Person in charge of EU relations
Ms Flora Coleman (Head of Government Relations)
Person with legal responsibility
Mr Kristo Kaarmann (Executive co-founder)
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Categories
Category
II - In-house lobbyists and trade/business/professional associations
Subcategory
Companies & groups
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Networking
Affiliation
Innovate Finance, innovatefinance.com
Future 50, futurefifty.com
European Payments Institutions Federation
Electronic Money Association
Fintechs 4 EuropeMember organisations
None declared
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Financial Data
Closed financial year
Mar 2015 - Mar 2016
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
75,000€
Other financial info
None declared
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EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
European Innovation Council High Level Group
NoneACC
None
Groups (European Parliament)
None
Communication activities
None
Other activities
None declared
- Meetings
Meetings
19 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 06 Feb 2024 Location Brussels Subject PSD3/PSR review DG Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union Attending - John Berrigan (Director-General)
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Date 25 Apr 2023 Location Brussels Subject Payments, Remittances, Iban discrimination. Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Mairead Mcguinness Portfolio Financial services, financial stability and Capital Markets Union Attending - Agnieszka Drzewoska (Cabinet member)
- Mairead McGuinness (Commissioner)
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Date 24 Apr 2023 Location Virtual Meeting Subject Preparatory Meeting fo the Meeting with the Commissioner Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Mairead Mcguinness Portfolio Financial services, financial stability and Capital Markets Union Attending - Agnieszka Drzewoska (Cabinet member)
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Date 27 Sep 2022 Location Brussels Subject Roundtable on Remittances to Ukraine Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Mairead Mcguinness Portfolio Financial services, financial stability and Capital Markets Union Attending - Patricia Reilly (Cabinet member)
- Agnieszka Drzewoska (Cabinet member)
- Mairead McGuinness (Commissioner)
Other Lobbyists - NovaPay LLC
- Mastercard Europe
- JOINT-STOCK COMPANY COMMERCIAL BANK PRIVATBANK
- First Ukrainian International Bank
- Ria Money Transfer
- Small World Financial Services Group Limited
- JSC “Ukrposhta”
- JOINT-STOCK COMPANY ACCENT-BANK
- Joint Stock Company “State Savings Bank of Ukraine”
- Raiffeisen Bank International AG
- Visa Europe
- PUBLIC JOINT STOCK COMPANY JOINT STOCK BANK UKRGASBANK
- TransferGO
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Date 17 May 2022 Location Brussels, Belgium Subject PSD2 review, instant payments Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Mairead Mcguinness Portfolio Financial services, financial stability and Capital Markets Union Attending - Mairead McGuinness (Commissioner)
- Nicolo Brignoli (Cabinet member)
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Date 14 Oct 2021 Location Bussels Subject Retail payments DG Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union Attending - John Berrigan (Director-General)
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Date 21 Sep 2021 Location Video Conferencing. Subject Pre record 'Lowering the cost of remittances' Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Mairead Mcguinness Portfolio Financial services, financial stability and Capital Markets Union Attending - Mairead McGuinness (Commissioner)
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Date 29 Mar 2021 Location online meeting Subject Retail payments, IBAN discrimination. 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 08 Sep 2020 Location video conference 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 04 Feb 2020 Location Brussels Subject Transparent finance and a competitive payments market in Europe Cabinet Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Margrethe Vestager Portfolio Europe Fit for Digital Age Attending - Michele Piergiovanni (Cabinet member)
- Yizhou Ren (Cabinet member)
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Date 12 Jul 2018 Location Brussels Subject Dynamic Currency Conversion (DCC) 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)
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Date 07 Mar 2018 Location Brussels Subject Meeting to discuss digital taxation (also with representatives from Deezer and Volumental) Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Pierre Moscovici Portfolio Economic and Financial Affairs, Taxation and Customs Attending - Pierre Moscovici (Commissioner)
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Date 07 Mar 2018 Location Brussels/Belgium Subject Meeting to discuss digital taxation DG Taxation and Customs Union Attending - Stephen Quest (Director-General)
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Date 14 Dec 2017 Location Brussels Subject cross border regulations, increasing consumer empowerment 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)
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Date 18 May 2017 Location Brussels Subject Consumer Financial Services Action Plan Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Jyrki Katainen Portfolio Jobs, Growth, Investment and Competitiveness Attending - Marlene Madsen (Cabinet member)
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Date 28 Oct 2016 Location Brussels Subject Fintech; Retail cross-border payments 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)
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Date 02 Mar 2016 Location Brussels Subject Financial technology Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Andrus Ansip Portfolio Digital Single Market Attending - Juhan Lepassaar (Cabinet member)
- Andrus Ansip (Vice-President)
- Hanna Hinrikus (Cabinet member)
- Aare Järvan (Cabinet member)
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Date 04 Sep 2015 Location Brussels Subject Future of banking, customer identification in the EU, transparency of pricing Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Andrus Ansip Portfolio Digital Single Market Attending - Aare Järvan (Cabinet member)
- Andrus Ansip (Vice-President)
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Date 17 Jul 2015 Location London Subject Financial Services Policy Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Jonathan Hill Portfolio Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union Attending - Jonathan Hill (Commissioner)
Other Lobbyists
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