• Issues relating to the promotion of biometric payments

Duration: July 15, 2016 to June 30, 2017

General Issues: Banking

Spending: about $240,000 (But it's complicated. Here's why.)

It can be tricky to figure out how much an organization spent on a particular lobbying engagement. The law only requires lobbyists to report the amount they were paid for federal lobbying each quarter rounded to the nearest $10,000—and if it's less than $3,000 in a given quarter (or less than $13,000 for organizations with in-house lobbyists), they don't have to disclose it at all. Plus, some organizations include spending that doesn’t belong in the report—for instance, money spent lobbying state governments or other legal work.

Agencies lobbied since 2016: U.S. Senate, House of Representatives, Treasury - Dept of, State - Dept of (DOS), Defense - Dept of (DOD), Homeland Security - Dept of (DHS)

Affiliated organizations: International Smart Card (ISC)

Related Foreign Entities: International Smart Card (ISC) (Baghdad, IRQ); contribution to lobbying: $50000; ownership 0%; Republic of Iraq (Ownership in ISC via state-owned banks. Iraqi gov is not a principal beneficiary of this work.) (Baghdad , IRQ); contribution to lobbying: $0; ownership 30%; Almanthoma LLC (percentage ownership in ISC shown) (Baghdad, IRQ); contribution to lobbying: $0; ownership 70%; Bahaa Abdul Hadi (showing ownership percentage in ISC via Almanthoma holdings) (Baghdad , IRQ); contribution to lobbying: $0; ownership 42%; Ibraham Abdul Hadi (showing ownership percentage in ISC via Almanthoma holdings) (Baghdad , IRQ); contribution to lobbying: $0; ownership 28%