The UK’s consultation on deregulating commercial agents could have knock-on impacts on payment services and create regulatory divergence from the EU....more
On 23 April 2024, the European Parliament announced its adoption at first reading of amended texts of the European Commission’s June 2023 legislative proposals for a Directive on payment services and electronic money services...more
HM Treasury has published a review and call for evidence on the Payment Services Regulations 2017, as well as the outcome of a post-implementation review of the Payment Card Interchange Fee Regulations 2015. Both...more
Consumers and service providers should take note of some of the enhanced risks upon an e-money institution’s insolvency. Technology is rapidly changing the way customers and businesses interact with financial systems....more
Key developments of interest over the last month include: Queen's Speech 2022 announces forthcoming Financial Services and Markets Bill; European Commission consultations and calls for evidence on PSD2 review and open...more
There has been a recent flurry of EU developments relating to a number of ongoing initiatives relevant to firms in the retail banking and payments sectors, including some movement on the European Commission's review of PSD2...more
The European Banking Authority is consulting on draft Regulatory Technical Standards to amend the existing RTS on strong customer authentication and common and secure open standards of communication under the EU Payment...more
Key developments of interest over the last month include: Europe: EBA consults on proposed guidelines on limited network exclusion under PSD2 UAE: Central bank issues Retail Payment Services and Card Schemes Regulation United...more
PSD2: EBA consults on guidelines on limited network exclusion The European Banking Authority (EBA) is consulting on guidelines on the limited network exclusion (LNE) under the revised Payment Services Directive (PSD2)....more
On 1 July 2021, the Bank of Italy transposed into the Italian legal framework Article 106 of PSD2 regarding the obligation for payment service providers to inform consumers of their rights in the context of the provision of...more
Payment Services and Electronic Money (Amendment) Regulations 2020 published - The Payment Services and Electronic Money (Amendment) Regulations 2020 (SI 2020/1275) have been published, together with an explanatory...more
Request to Pay: Pay.UK launches rules and standards framework - Pay.UK has launched the Request to Pay Framework — the message standards, rules, and terms and conditions for the development of Request to Pay services. The...more
Please find below a brief summary of two Italian developments on PSD2. More specifically: on 6 April 2020, the Italian Government approved a draft Legislative Decree introducing corrective and supplementary provisions to...more
The European Banking Authority has published amendments to the 2018 Guidelines on fraud reporting under the revised Payment Services Directive (known as PSD2). The Regulatory Technical Standards on "strong customer...more
The open banking requirements under the Payment Services Directive (EU) 2015/2366 (“PSD2”) are now in force, under which an account servicing payment service provider (“ASPSP”) must grant an authorised third party service...more
While the payments industry scrambles to meet new standards for APIs, the FCA grants an extension for SCA compliance. In an effort to evaluate the readiness of banks to comply with the revised EU Payment Services Directive...more
The European Banking Authority has published a report on the impact of financial technology on the business models of payment and electronic money institutions. The report aims to provide an overview of the current FinTech...more
On 18 July 2019 the European Banking Authority (EBA) published a report on the EU regulatory perimeter, national regulatory status and EU national regulators' (NCAs') authorisation approaches for FinTech firms conducting...more
The UK is due to leave the European Union on March 29, 2019 (“Brexit”). Within the EEA, “passport rights” permit financial services institutions and funds authorised in any EEA Member State to conduct business cross border...more
The U.K. Financial Conduct Authority has launched a consultation on its approach to implementing Regulatory Technical Standards and related Guidelines developed by the European Banking Authority to supplement provisions of...more
The European Banking Authority has published a final report and final draft Regulatory Technical Standards under the revised Payment Services Directive on cooperation between national regulators in home and host states of a...more
Following the publication by the European Banking Authority of an Opinion and draft Guidelines on Regulatory Technical Standards under the revised Payment Services Directive for strong customer authentication and common and...more
A two-page corrigendum to the revised Payment Services Directive has been published in the Official Journal of the European Union. The corrigendum makes 11 corrections to the text of the PSD2 across one recital and eight of...more
The Situation: The second EU Payment Services Directive requires banks to give third-party payment service providers ("TPPs") access to the bank accounts of their customers (with their consent), in order to enable TPPs to...more
A Commission Delegated Regulation has been published in the Official Journal of the European Union. The Delegated Regulation supplements the revised Payment Services Directive with Regulatory Technical Standards for strong...more