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Overview
Lobbying Costs
150,000€
Financial year: Apr 2018 - Mar 2019
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
0.5 Fte (2)
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
0
High-level Commission meetings
1
Lobbying Costs over the years
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Info
Nationwide Building Society
EU Transparency Register
417169813927-13 First registered on 07 Jul 2014
Goals / Remit
Nationwide is the world's largest building society and one of the UK’s largest savings providers and a top-three provider of mortgages, with circa £200bn in assets. Nationwide is a market leader in providing banking services but we are not a bank – we are a mutual building society. We are owned by and run for the benefit of our 15 million members, who include our retail savings and mortgage customers. As such we are unique in UK retail financial services, providing a credible alternative to the plc banks and focusing on long-term, transparent customer relationships. Whilst our core business is residential mortgage lending funded by retail deposits, we are a full service personal finance provider, offering current accounts, personal loans, credit cards, investments and insurance.
The principles on which we are run are fundamentally different to those of our plc peers – we exist to deliver value to our member customers and we are accountable to them. We are able to optimise profit – rather than maximise profit – to deliver member value over the longer term through improved pricing and market-leading customer service. This results in a lower risk appetite and profile than that of our peers meaning we have remained safe and secure throughout the financial crisis with capital and liquidity ratios amongst the highest in our peer group.Main EU files targeted
All financial services related initiatives, policies and legislative files. Company law and accounting practices.
Address
Head Office
Nationwide House
Pipers Way
Swindon SN38 1NW
UNITED KINGDOM -
People
Total lobbyists declared
2
Employment time Lobbyists 25% 2 Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
0.5
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
All Lobbyists with EP accreditation over time
0 accreditations were / are live (in bold) for the selected state of 03 Jan 2025
Name Start date End Date Ms Anne FAIRWEATHER 22 Sep 2015 18 Sep 2016 Complementary Information
None declared
Person in charge of EU relations
Ms Anne Fairweather (Policy and Public Affairs Manager Lead)
Person with legal responsibility
Mr Chris Bose (Head of Policy and Public Affairs)
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Categories
Category
II - In-house lobbyists and trade/business/professional associations
Subcategory
Companies & groups
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Networking
Affiliation
Building Societies Association - www.bsa.org.uk
UK Finance - www.ukfinance.org.uk
AFME - www.afme.eu
International Swaps and Derivatives Association - www.isda.orgMember organisations
None declared
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Financial Data
Closed financial year
Apr 2018 - Mar 2019
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
150,000€
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
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.
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 28 Apr 2016 Location Brussels Subject Resolution issues and MREL Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Jonathan Hill Portfolio Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union Attending - Chantal Hughes (Cabinet member)