More than two decades after its founding, The Electronic Transactions Association has registered its first lobbyist to advocate for it in Washington, D.C.
Mary Bennett, the D.C-based trade group's government and industry relations director, is advocating on "[c]ybersecurity, privacy, payments, mobile payments, [Internal Revenue Service] reporting, intellectual property, [and] trade," according to lobbying registration paperwork filed with Congress last week. Established in 1990 as the Bankcard Services association, ETA represents more than 500 companies that provide electronic transaction processing services and products.
ETA's members include financial services companies American Express Co., Citigroup Inc., and Visa Inc., as well as tech companies Amazon.com Inc., Google Inc., and Microsoft Corp., which joined in the past year.
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