Recent meetings
| Date | Commissioner / Cabinet | Topic | File |
|---|---|---|---|
| 20 May 2025 | Cristina Dias Cabinet member | Presented their company and shared views on the payments space in the EU | SRC |
| 20 May 2025 | Cristina Dias Cabinet member | Presented their company and shared views on the payments space in the EU | — |
| 05 Feb 2025 | Eric Ducoulombier Head of Unit | Updates on Wise G20 Roadmap for enhancing cross border payments, Regulatory Practices and FX Pricing Transparency | — |
| 05 Feb 2025 | Eric Ducoulombier Head of Unit | Updates on Wise G20 Roadmap for enhancing cross border payments, Regulatory Practices and FX Pricing Transparency | SRC |
| 06 Feb 2024 | John Berrigan Director-General | PSD3/PSR review | SRC |
| 06 Feb 2024 | John Berrigan Director-General | PSD3/PSR review | — |
| 25 Apr 2023 | Agnieszka Drzewoska Cabinet member | Payments, Remittances, Iban discrimination. | — |
| 25 Apr 2023 | Agnieszka Drzewoska Cabinet member | Payments, Remittances, Iban discrimination. | SRC |
| 24 Apr 2023 | Agnieszka Drzewoska Cabinet member | Preparatory Meeting fo the Meeting with the Commissioner | — |
| 24 Apr 2023 | Agnieszka Drzewoska Cabinet member | Preparatory Meeting fo the Meeting with the Commissioner | SRC |
| 27 Sept 2022 | Mairead McGuinness Commissioner | Roundtable on Remittances to Ukraine | SRC |
| 27 Sept 2022 | Mairead McGuinness Commissioner | Roundtable on Remittances to Ukraine | — |
| 17 May 2022 | Mairead McGuinness Commissioner | PSD2 review, instant payments | SRC |
| 17 May 2022 | Mairead McGuinness Commissioner | PSD2 review, instant payments | — |
| 14 Oct 2021 | John Berrigan Director-General | Retail payments | — |
| 14 Oct 2021 | John Berrigan Director-General | Retail payments | SRC |
| 21 Sept 2021 | Mairead McGuinness Commissioner | Pre record 'Lowering the cost of remittances' | SRC |
| 21 Sept 2021 | Mairead McGuinness Commissioner | Pre record 'Lowering the cost of remittances' | — |
| 29 Mar 2021 | Florian Denis Cabinet member | Retail payments, IBAN discrimination. | SRC |
| 29 Mar 2021 | Florian Denis Cabinet member | Retail payments, IBAN discrimination. | — |
| 08 Sept 2020 | Andrea Beltramello Cabinet member | EU retail payments strategy | — |
| 08 Sept 2020 | Andrea Beltramello Cabinet member | EU retail payments strategy | SRC |
| 04 Feb 2020 | Yizhou Ren Cabinet member | Transparent finance and a competitive payments market in Europe | — |
| 04 Feb 2020 | Yizhou Ren Cabinet member | Transparent finance and a competitive payments market in Europe | SRC |
| 12 Jul 2018 | Elina Melngaile Cabinet member | Dynamic Currency Conversion (DCC) | — |
Mission & Goals
Wise is a global technology company, building the best way to move and manage the world's money. With Wise Account and Wise Business, people and businesses can hold 40 currencies, move money between countries and spend money abroad. Large companies and banks use Wise technology too; an entirely new network for the world's money. Launched in 2011, Wise is one of the world’s fastest growing, profitable tech companies. Co-founded by Kristo Käärmann and Taavet Hinrikus, Wise launched in 2011 under its original name TransferWise.
EU Legislative Interests
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. Our focus areas include: The Payment Services Directive & Regulation, Cross-Border Payments Regulation, Single European Payments Area Regulation, General Data Protection Regulation, Anti-Money Laundering Directives, Digital Single Market, Settlement Finality Directive, Instant Payments Regulation
Interests Represented
Promotes their own interests or the collective interests of their members
Member Of
European Payments Institutions Federation Electronic Money Association European Fintech Association UK Finance PayBelgium International Association of Money Transfer Networks