Overview
Lobbying Costs
900,000€ - 999,999€
Financial year: Oct 2022 - Sep 2023
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
7 Fte (9)
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
2
High-level Commission meetings
20
Lobbying Costs over the years
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Info
Visa Europe (Visa Europe)
EU Transparency Register
61954192201-58 First registered on 01 Sep 2009
Goals / Remit
Visa Europe is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Visa Inc. (NYSE:V). Visa Inc. is a global payments technology company that connects consumers, businesses, financial institutions, and governments in more than 200 countries and territories to fast, secure and reliable electronic payments.
For more information, visit our website (www.visaeurope.com).Main EU files targeted
Payment regulation (Interchange Fee Regulation, PSD2, E-money, Regulation Regulation 518, Settlement Finality Directive, Payments Account Directive, EU Retail Payment Strategy, Instant Payments, Open Banking/ Finance), Money laundering and anti-terrorist financing, Fraud prevention, Tax policies, Consumer protection, Consumer credit, Safer internet programme (protecting children online), E-commerce Competition policy, Social inclusion, FinTech, AI, Data Protection, Urban Mobility, Digital Identity etc.
Address
Head Office
Sheldon Square, 1
London W2 6TT
UNITED KINGDOMEU Office
Rue de Spa 8
Brussels 1000
BELGIUMWebsite
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People
Total lobbyists declared
9
Employment time Lobbyists 100% 5 50% 4 Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
7
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
All Lobbyists with EP accreditation over time
2 accreditations were / are live (in bold) for the selected state of 22 Nov 2024
Name Start date End Date Alex Tompkins 01 Sep 2024 31 Aug 2025 Anna Lekston 02 Sep 2024 01 Sep 2025 Michael WILSON 26 Jul 2023 26 Jul 2024 Aoife HOULIHAN 25 Jul 2023 25 Jul 2024 Paloma GARCIA MUNOZ 25 Jul 2023 25 Jul 2024 Pedro SIMOES 25 Jul 2023 25 Jul 2024 Paloma GARCIA MUNOZ 14 Jul 2022 14 Jul 2023 Pedro SIMOES 13 Jul 2022 13 Jul 2023 Michael WILSON 05 Sep 2019 05 Sep 2020 Pedro SIMOES 30 Aug 2019 29 Aug 2020 Roeland VAN DER STAPPEN 30 Aug 2019 29 Aug 2020 Jorn Jakob RÖBER 01 Sep 2017 01 Sep 2018 Sudeshna BASU 22 Nov 2016 18 Nov 2017 Ms Loreta LIUTKUTE 22 Aug 2016 19 Aug 2017 Mr Jorn-Jakob ROBER 20 Jun 2016 17 Jun 2017 Mr Jörn-Jakob RÖBER 20 Jun 2016 29 Jun 2016 Mr Jörn-Jakob RÖBER 04 Jun 2015 29 May 2016 Ms Loreta LIUTKUTE 20 Sep 2014 18 Sep 2015 Sudeshna BASU 20 Dec 2014 11 Dec 2015 Sudeshna BASU 20 Dec 2014 27 Jan 2015 Mr Peter Moller Jensen 28 Nov 2014 26 Nov 2015 Mr Marc Temmerman 30 Oct 2014 28 Oct 2015 Mrs Loreta LIUTKUTE 20 Sep 2014 27 Jan 2015 Mr Jörn-Jakob RÖBER 01 May 2014 04 Jun 2015 Mr Peter Moller Jensen 19 Dec 2013 28 Nov 2014 Mrs Loreta LIUTKUTE 16 Oct 2013 20 Sep 2014 Mr Marc Temmerman 02 Oct 2013 01 Oct 2014 Mr Jörn-Jakob RÖBER 11 Apr 2013 10 Apr 2014 Mrs Monika Chlebowska-Van Loon 19 Oct 2012 12 Sep 2013 Mrs Loreta LIUTKUTE 28 Sep 2012 12 Sep 2013 Monica MONACO 27 Sep 2012 12 Sep 2013 Monica MONACO 20 Dec 2011 27 Sep 2012 Mrs Loreta LIUTKUTE 17 Jan 2012 28 Sep 2012 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
Companies & groups
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Networking
Affiliation
Payments Europe, CEPS, ECRI, European Parliamentary Financial Service Forum, Digital Europe, Eurofi, The Payments Association
Member organisations
www.visaeurope.com
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Financial Data
Interests represented
Promotes their own interests or the collective interests of their members
Closed financial year
Oct 2022 - Sep 2023
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
900,000€ - 999,999€
Major contributions in closed year
None declared
Intermediaries for closed year
None declaredIntermediaries for current year
None declaredClosed year Costs
900,000€ - 999,999€
Other financial info
None declared
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EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
Payment Systems Market Expert Group#E02287#https://ec.europa.eu/transparency/expert-groups-register/screen/expert-groups/consult?lang=en&groupID=2287 #MEMBER #B#Finance
Groups (European Parliament)
N/A
European Parliamentary Financial Service Forum (EPFSF)Communication activities
None declared
Other activities
None declared
Meetings
Meetings
20 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 11 Apr 2024 Location Delphi Subject Physical meeting - Discussion on CESOP cooperation DG Taxation and Customs Union Attending - Gerassimos Thomas (Director-General)
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Date 17 Jan 2023 Location Brussels Subject Interchange Fee Regulation (IFR) Cabinet Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Margrethe Vestager Portfolio Europe Fit for Digital Age Attending - Simon Genevaz (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 - Mairead McGuinness (Commissioner)
- Patricia Reilly (Cabinet member)
- Agnieszka Drzewoska (Cabinet member)
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Date 21 Mar 2022 Location Brussels Subject Payment continuity in Ukraine, Open Banking and PSD2. Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Mairead Mcguinness Portfolio Financial services, financial stability and Capital Markets Union Attending - Nicolo Brignoli (Cabinet member)
- Mairead McGuinness (Commissioner)
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Date 21 Mar 2022 Location Brussels Subject Competition policy. Cabinet Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Margrethe Vestager Portfolio Europe Fit for Digital Age Attending - Margrethe Vestager (Executive Vice-President)
- Lucia Bonova (Cabinet member)
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Date 08 Nov 2021 Location Virtual Subject Digital finance, retail payments, financial literacy Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Mairead Mcguinness Portfolio Financial services, financial stability and Capital Markets Union Attending - Florian Denis (Cabinet member)
- Peter Power (Cabinet member)
- Agnieszka Drzewoska (Cabinet member)
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Date 02 Mar 2021 Location Video Conferencing. Subject Credit card payments Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Mairead Mcguinness Portfolio Financial services, financial stability and Capital Markets Union Attending - Mairead McGuinness (Commissioner)
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Date 19 Jan 2021 Location Brussels Subject IFR and Developments in the payment card sector DG Competition Attending - Olivier Guersent (Director-General)
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Date 16 Jul 2020 Location Brussels Subject To discuss post-Covid recovery Cabinet Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Margrethe Vestager Portfolio Europe Fit for Digital Age Attending - Werner Stengg (Cabinet member)
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Date 17 Jan 2020 Location Brussels, Belgium Subject Payments 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 14 Aug 2019 Location Brussels Subject Electronic payments Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Mariya Gabriel Portfolio Digital Economy and Society Attending - Carl-Christian Buhr (Cabinet member)
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Date 20 Jun 2019 Location Brussels Subject Priorities for the next European Commission as they relate to the changing payment landscape. DG Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union Attending - Olivier Guersent (Director-General)
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Date 06 Feb 2019 Location Brussels Subject EU policy on 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 - Valdis Dombrovskis (Vice-President)
- Elina Melngaile (Cabinet member)
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Date 30 Nov 2018 Location Brussels Subject Trade in general and more specifically e-commerce and China Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Cecilia Malmström Portfolio Trade Attending - Maria Asenius (Cabinet member)
- Nele Eichhorn (Cabinet member)
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Date 26 Nov 2018 Location Brussels, Belgium Subject Visa activities at the digital market and the consumer support programmes Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Věra Jourová Portfolio Justice, Consumers and Gender Equality Attending - Eduard Hulicius (Cabinet member)
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Date 24 May 2018 Location Brussels Subject Financial markets Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Jyrki Katainen Portfolio Jobs, Growth, Investment and Competitiveness Attending - Risto Artjoki (Cabinet member)
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Date 24 May 2018 Location Brussels Subject PSD2, cross-border payments, Fintech DG Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union Attending - Olivier Guersent (Director-General)
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Date 05 Mar 2018 Location Brussels, Belgium Subject Fintech; developments in card skims and 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 15 Jun 2017 Location Malta Subject Financial Services in the DSM, innovation in payments Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Andrus Ansip Portfolio Digital Single Market Attending - Juhan Lepassaar (Cabinet member)
- Hanna Hinrikus (Cabinet member)
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Date 18 Jan 2017 Location World Economic Forum, Davos Subject Electronic Payments; PSD2 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 - Valdis Dombrovskis (Vice-President)