• Issues and litigation related to money transmission services and FOIA requests, federal financial regulation, consumer protection, the Bank Secrecy Act (BSA), humanitarian relief, and remittance consumer identification issues. H.R.6817/S.3516, A bill to impose a fee on certain remittance transfers to fund border security.

Duration: December 1, 2014 to present

General Issues: Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities, Taxation/Internal Revenue Code

Spending: about $2,440,000 (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 2014: U.S. Senate, House of Representatives, U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), Treasury - Dept of, Office of Management & Budget (OMB), Natl Economic Council (NEC), Office of the Vice President of the United States, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), Commerce - Dept of (DOC)