Apple Inc. lobbied the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau for the first time earlier this year, advocating on mobile payments at a time when many companies are striving to convince the agency’s new Republican leadership to grant regulatory relief.

The iPhone maker directed its lobbying “on issues related to mobile payments” not just at the CFPB but also at Congress and the U.S. Treasury Department, according to a disclosure of its advocacy work in the first three months of 2018.