Overview
Lobbying Costs
1,250,000€ - 1,499,999€
Financial year: Oct 2021 - Sep 2022
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
3.5 Fte (12)
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
0
High-level Commission meetings
2
Lobbying Costs over the years
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Info
Electronic Money Association (EMA)
EU Transparency Register
84308599569-14 First registered on 08 Sep 2012
Goals / Remit
The Electronic Money Association (EMA) is the European trade body for electronic money issuers and payment institutions. Members include payments companies, the telecommunications and transport sectors and specialist e-money issuers, third party payment providers, and cryptoasset service providers. The EMA is the industry’s voice in dealing with regulators, government bodies and international organisations. It is a forum for education, responding to regulatory proposals and establishing industry guidelines.
Main EU files targeted
EU Payment Services Directive(s) and any related EU regulation, CBPRII, IFR, SFD, DGSD
Anti-Money Laundering Directive(s) and any related EU regulation on counter-terrorist financing, for example
Electronic Money Directive(s)
European Payments Council (EPC)
Euro Retail Payments Board (ERPB)
EC Strategy/initiative on cryptocurrencies (MICA)
EC Fintech agenda, including Data Act, and Open Finance
EC Strategy on Digital Operational Resilience & NIS Directive
EiDAS Regulation
ECB PISA Framework
Russia sanctionsAddress
Head Office
The Crescent, 5
London KT6 4BN
UNITED KINGDOMEU Office
The Crescent, 5
London KT6 4BN
UNITED KINGDOMWebsite
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People
Total lobbyists declared
12
Employment time Lobbyists 100% 1 50% 2 25% 4 10% 5 Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
3.5
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
All Lobbyists with EP accreditation over time
0 accreditations were / are live (in bold) for the selected state of 27 Apr 2024
Name Start date End Date Ms Judith CROWFORD 19 Jul 2016 15 Jul 2017 Ms Martina Grillitsch 30 Sep 2016 23 Sep 2017 Mr Philip Robinson 22 Aug 2016 02 Aug 2017 Mr Thaer Sabri 19 Jul 2016 15 Jul 2017 Ms Judith Crawford 19 Jul 2016 01 Nov 2016 Ms Johanna Jacques 09 Oct 2013 08 Oct 2014 Mr Philip Robinson 19 Sep 2013 17 Sep 2014 Mr Thaer Sabri 19 Sep 2013 17 Sep 2014 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
- Joint Money Laundering Steering Group (JMLSG)
- European Commission Payment Systems Market Expert Group (PSMEG)
- EBA Banking Stakeholder Group
- European Payments Council (EPC)
- European Retail Payments Board (ERPB)
- European Forum for InnovationMember 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
Oct 2021 - Sep 2022
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
1,250,000€ - 1,499,999€
Major contributions in closed year
None declared
Intermediaries for closed year
None declaredIntermediaries for current year
None declaredClosed year Costs
1,250,000€ - 1,499,999€
Other financial info
Membership fees are charged at a flat rate per firm, and are collected only to cover the costs of the activities of the association.
The high costs of activities covered by the register is based on staff costs and is an estimate at about half of total costs for running the association. -
EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
Payment Systems Market Expert Group#E02287#CRAWFORD Judith#https://ec.europa.eu/transparency/expert-groups-register/screen/expert-groups/consult?lang=en&groupID=2287 #Member #B#Finance, Industry, SMEs
Groups (European Parliament)
N/A
European Retail Payments BoardCommunication activities
EMA Annual Conference in Brussels
Ongoing direct representations to EU institutions (EP, EC, Council)Other activities
- Review of the Payment Services Directive
- Review of the Electronic Money Directive
- Review of the Money Laundering Directive
- Review of IFR, CBPRII
- EC initiatives on e-commerce
- SEPA
- IT security, digital operational resilience, cyber risk, NIS Directive
- Data protection
- Consumer law
- Financial services law
- Cryptocurrency regulatory initiatives
Meetings
Meetings
2 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 - Nexi Group
- CaixaBank, S.A.
- European Savings and Retail Banking Group
- European Association of Co-operative Banks
- Deutscher Sparkassen-und Giroverband
- Payments Europe
- European Digital Finance Association
- N26
- Worldline
- European FinTech Association
- Bundesverband der Deutschen Volksbanken und Raiffeisenbanken
- American Express Corporation
- European Banking Federation
- PPRO Financial Ltd
- Afore Consulting
- Finance Denmark
- Crédit Agricole S.A.
- European Third Party Providers Association
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Date 07 Apr 2016 Location London Subject Pre-paid cards Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Jonathan Hill Portfolio Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union Attending - Jonathan Hill (Commissioner)