BMO BANK N.A. (FKA BMO HARRIS BANK N.A.)

Lobbying for BMO BANK N.A. (FKA BMO HARRIS BANK N.A.)

Filing 3rd Quarter - Report

Reporting period

3rd Quarter 2025

July 1 - Sep 30 · Posted Oct 20, 2025

Expenses

$390,000.00

What this organization spent lobbying with its own staff. Reported using A: the three LDA methods count different costs, so an expenses figure is not comparable across filers that used different ones.

Client based in

Illinois

Official filing document

Lobbyists on this filing 1

KATHLEEN PALMER New on this filing

Previously held: Financial Institutions Subcommittee, House Financial Services Committee: Staff Direct, (Jan 2025-Aug 2025), Sr Prof Staff (Jan 2023-Jan 2025), Prof Staff, (Jul 2019-Jan 2023). Rep. Stephen Fincher: Various Roles (Apr. 2014 - Sept. 2016).

A "covered position" is a government job the lobbyist held in the 20 years before registering, which the law requires them to name. See the revolving door for former members of Congress across all filings.

Government bodies contacted 6

Federal Reserve System
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Natl Economic Council (NEC)
Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC)
SENATE
Treasury, Dept of

The chambers, agencies and offices the filer named. It does not say who inside them was contacted, or when.

Lobbying activity 1

Banking

Issues related to capital and liquidity regulation, issues relating to merger policy, issues related to foreign bank regulation, issues related to deposit insurance. During the reporting period, Ms. Swanson did not make lobbying contacts with the US Senate. Similarly, Ms. Palmer did not make lobbying contacts with the US House Financial Services Committee.

Source: federal Lobbying Disclosure Act filing, reproduced as filed. Bills are parsed from the activity descriptions.