Overview
Lobbying Costs
250,000€
Financial year: Apr 2017 - Mar 2018
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
2.5 Fte (4)
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
3
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
TransferWise is a global technology company that’s building the best way to move money around the world. Whether you’re sending money to another country, spending money abroad, or making and receiving international business payments, TransferWise is on a mission to make your life easier and save you money.
Co-founded by Taavet Hinrikus and Kristo Käärmann, TransferWise launched in 2011. It is one of the world’s fastest growing tech firms having raised $700m in primary and secondary funding from investors such as BlackRock, Lead Edge, Lone Pine, Vitruvian, IVP, Merian Global Investors, Andreessen Horowitz, Sir Richard Branson, Valar Ventures and Max Levchin from PayPal. Over five million people use TransferWise, which processes over €4bn in payments every month, saving customers over €1bn a year.
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
Our key file is the effort to bring transparency to international payments, so that consumers know what it costs to use their own money. More broadly we work on anything that helps us to achieve our mission to make international payments as fast, easy, cheap and transparent as possible.
We therefore work on the following:
The Payment Services Directives, Electronic Money Directive, Anti-Money Laundering Directive, Cross-Border Payments Regulation, Single European Payments Area, General Data Protection Regulation, Anti-Money Laundering Directives, Digital Single Market.Address
Head Office
6th Floor
The Tea Building
London E1 6JJ
UNITED KINGDOMEU Office
Square de Meeûs 38/40
Bruxelles 1000
BELGIUM -
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
3 accreditations were / are live (in bold) for the selected state of 26 Apr 2019
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 Käärmann (Chief Executive Officer)
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Categories
Category
II - In-house lobbyists and trade/business/professional associations
Subcategory
Companies & groups
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Networking
Affiliation
Future 50
European Payments Institutions Federation
Electronic Money Association
Fintechs 4 Europe
UK FinanceMember organisations
None declared
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Financial Data
Closed financial year
Apr 2017 - Mar 2018
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
250,000€
Other financial info
None declared
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EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
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 - Mairead McGuinness (Commissioner)
- Agnieszka Drzewoska (Cabinet member)
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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)
- Mairead McGuinness (Commissioner)
- Agnieszka Drzewoska (Cabinet member)
Other Lobbyists - Raiffeisen Bank International AG
- Small World Financial Services Group Limited
- TransferGO
- NovaPay LLC
- First Ukrainian International Bank
- JOINT-STOCK COMPANY ACCENT-BANK
- PUBLIC JOINT STOCK COMPANY JOINT STOCK BANK UKRGASBANK
- JSC “Ukrposhta”
- Joint Stock Company “State Savings Bank of Ukraine”
- JOINT-STOCK COMPANY COMMERCIAL BANK PRIVATBANK
- Mastercard Europe
- Visa Europe
- Ria Money Transfer
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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 - Florian Denis (Cabinet member)
- Agnieszka Drzewoska (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 - Yizhou Ren (Cabinet member)
- Michele Piergiovanni (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 - Hanna Hinrikus (Cabinet member)
- Andrus Ansip (Vice-President)
- Juhan Lepassaar (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