MEP of the week

Lobby organisation

Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication

HQ: Belgium · Transparency Register entry

As of 9 September 2026, Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication appears in 4 declared MEP meetings (4 different MEPs), most often with European People's Party.

4
declared meetings
with current MEPs
4
MEPs met
€100,000/yr
declared lobbying spend
self-reported to the register
2.0
lobbyists
full time equivalent

In their own words

“Swift is a member-owned cooperative through which the financial world conducts its business operations with speed, certainty and confidence. More than 11,000 financial institutions and corporations in over 200 countries trust us every day to exchange millions of standardised financial messages. This activity involves the secure exchange of proprietary data while ensuring its confidentiality and integrity. Our role is two-fold.…”

Stated goals from the organisation's own Transparency Register filing.

Who they meet, and when

Which groups they meet

Share of this organisation's 4 declared meetings, by the meeting MEP's political group.

European People's Party250%
Renew Europe250%

Meetings by year

Declared meetings per calendar year, 2020–2026. Bar length is relative to its busiest year (1 in 2020).

2020
1
2021
1
2022
0
2023
0
2024
1
2025
0
2026
1

Group is each MEP's current political group, not necessarily the one they sat with at the time. Shares are rounded to whole percent.

The MEPs they meet most

Stéphanie Yon-Courtin
1 meeting · Renew
Billy Kelleher
1 meeting · Renew
Rasa Juknevičienė
1 meeting · EPP
Wouter Beke
1 meeting · EPP

The 4 most recent declared meetings

DateMEPSubject
10 Mar 2026Wouter BekeEuroclear
11 Sep 2024Stéphanie Yon-CourtinCapital Markets Union
20 Apr 2021Billy KelleherProposal for a Regulation on Digital Operation Resilience (DORA)
8 Jan 2020Rasa JuknevičienėActivities and priorities of SWIFT

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