Electronic Transactions Association

Based in DC

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AI Overview

With $12.7M in lobbying spend across 36 quarterly filings, Electronic Transactions Association is one of the biggest lobbying spenders in Washington. Their lobbying covers 11 issue areas. Active from 2018 to 2025.

$12.7M
Total Spend
8
Years Active
1
Firms Hired
4
Lobbyists Deployed
11
Issues Lobbied

Spending Trend

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YearLobbying Spend
2018$1.8M
2019$1.3M
2020$1.1M
2021$1.1M
2022$2.0M
2023$1.6M
2024$1.6M
2025$2.1M

Issues Lobbied

Lobbying Firms

Lobbyists

Government Agencies Targeted

These are the government entities that Electronic Transactions Association disclosed contacting in their lobbying filings.

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB)Council of Economic Advisers (CEA)Federal Communications Commission (FCC)Federal Reserve SystemFederal Trade Commission (FTC)Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN)HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVESInternal Revenue Service (IRS)Justice, Dept of (DOJ)Labor, Dept of (DOL)Natl Economic Council (NEC)Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC)SENATETreasury, Dept ofU.S. Trade Representative (USTR)Food & Drug Administration (FDA)Office of Science & Technology Policy (OSTP)Small Business Administration (SBA)Patent & Trademark Office (PTO)Government Accountability Office (GAO)
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What They Lobby About

These are actual descriptions from their quarterly lobbying disclosure filings, summarizing what they lobbied Congress and federal agencies about.Issue areas: Banking, Taxation, Telecommunications, Copyright/Patent, Consumer Issues and 6 more

Mobile payments, fraud, data security, data storage regulatory reform, tax reporting, payments systems, cyber-security, financial services, merchant cash advances, privacy, the Federal Reserve and big

Corporate tax reform, tax reporting. H.R. 1, Tax Cut & Jobs Act, H.R. 5192, Protecting Children from Identity Theft Act, and H.R. 5439, to provide for a single point of contact at the Internal Revenue

Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991 reform, robocalling, FCC rules to protect broadband consumer privacy, CFPB and Consumer Access to Financial Records, FCC Petition for Rulemaking and Declarato

Patent reform

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Last updated: February 2026

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