Overview
Lobbying Costs
200,000€ - 299,999€
Financial year: Jan 2021 - Dec 2021
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
1.5 Fte (2)
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
0
High-level Commission meetings
1
Lobbying Costs over the years
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Info
Western Union
EU Transparency Register
082250546728-83 First registered on 30 May 2022
Goals / Remit
The Western Union Company (NYSE: WU) is a global leader in cross-border, cross-currency money movement and payments. Western Union’s platform provides seamless cross-border flows and its leading global financial network bridges more than 200 countries and territories and over 130 currencies. We connect consumers, businesses, financial institutions, and governments through one of the world’s widest reaching networks, accessing billions of bank accounts, millions of digital wallets and cards, and a substantial global network of retail locations. Western Union connects the world to bring boundless possibilities within reach.
Main EU files targeted
Western Union follows mainly regulatory developments directly related to its exiting and planned future product portfolio. This group of initiatives includes consumer protection, payments regulation, AML/CFT regulation, data protection, and other rules and regulation which apply to our business.
Address
Head Office
7001 E Belleview Avenue
Denver
UNITED STATESEU Office
Place Louise 6
Brussels
BELGIUMWebsite
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People
Total lobbyists declared
2
Employment time Lobbyists 75% 2 Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
1.5
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
No lobbyists with EP accreditations
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
European Parliament Financial Services Forum (EPFSF)
European Payment Institutions Federation (EPIF)
EUROFIMember 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
Jan 2021 - Dec 2021
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
200,000€ - 299,999€
Major contributions in closed year
None declared
Intermediaries for closed year
Name Amount afore consulting 25,000€ - 49,999€ Intermediaries for current year
None declaredClosed year Costs
200,000€ - 299,999€
Other financial info
None declared
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EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
none
Groups (European Parliament)
N/A
Communication activities
Western Union is a member of various trade bodies (e.e. EPIF, Eurofi, EPFSF)
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 14 Dec 2022 Location Virtual Subject PSD, instant payments, IBAN, remittances. Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Mairead Mcguinness Portfolio Financial services, financial stability and Capital Markets Union Attending - Agnieszka Drzewoska (Cabinet member)