On 16 March 2023, the FCA published a Dear CEO letter on its priorities for payments firms. The letter was sent to CEOs of firms within the FCA’s payments portfolio, including those authorised or registered under the Payment Services Regulations 2017 (PSRs) and the Electronic Money Regulations 2011 (EMRs). The letter explains that the FCA … Continue Reading
On 6 March 2023, the Treasury Committee published a report in which it criticised new proposals to reimburse fraud victims. The Committee states that the implementation of mandatory reimbursement plans has been ‘painfully slow’ and also objects to new proposals by the regulator which would hand the refund process to an industry body, Pay.UK. New … Continue Reading
On 1 March 2023, the Committee on Payments and Market Infrastructures (CPMI) published a consultive report on the ISO 20022 harmonisation requirements for enhancing cross-border payments. This consultive report presents the CPMI’s proposed requirements for harmonised use of ISO 20022 for cross-border payments. The proposed requirements are the result of earlier discussions by a joint … Continue Reading
On 23 February 2023, the Financial Stability Board (FSB) published a report on the G20 Roadmap for enhancing cross-border payments (the Roadmap). In October 2022, the FSB published a prioritisation plan and engagement model for taking the Roadmap forward. The plan showed that the Roadmap had reached an inflection point and needed to move to … Continue Reading
On 7 February 2023, the European Central Bank (ECB) published an opinion on a proposal for a Regulation amending Regulations (EU) No 260/2012 and (EU) 2021/1230 as regards the instant credit transfers in euro. The proposed Regulation is intended to make instant payments in the Euro currency available to citizens and businesses holding a bank … Continue Reading
On 31 January 2023, the European Banking Authority (EBA) issued three new Q&As which together with three existing Q&As clarify the application of strong customer authentication (SCA) to the enrolment of a payment card to a digital wallet and to the initiation of payment transactions with digitised versions of a payment card. They also clarify … Continue Reading
On 11 January 2023, the European Banking Authority (EBA) published a report setting out its finding following a peer review on the authorisation of payment institutions and e-money institutions under the revised Payment Services Directive (PSD2), taking into account the EBA guidelines on authorisation issued in 2017 in support of the Directive. The report notes … Continue Reading
On 16 December 2022, the FCA, Payment Systems Regulator, HM Treasury and the Competition and Markets Authority published a joint statement providing an update on their plans for the vision of the future of open banking and proposals for a new entity to succeed the Open Banking Implementation Entity. In the statement the regulators confirm … Continue Reading
On 8 December 2022, the Payment Systems Regulator (PSR) published a Consultation Paper: Authorised push payment scams measure 1 Metric C process: revised approach. In November 2021, the PSR consulted on a package of measures to tackle authorised push payment (APP) scams. The measures focussed on the publication of scam data, industry efforts to improve … Continue Reading
On 8 December 2022, the European Payments Council (EPC) published its annual report on payment threats and fraud trends. The report provides an overview of the most important threats and other “fraud enablers” in the payments landscape, including engineering and phishing, malware, Advanced Persistent Threats, Distributed Denial of Service ((D)DoS), botnets and monetisation channels. For … Continue Reading
On 30 November 2022, the European Payments Council published the SEPA Payment Account Access (SPAA) Scheme Rulebook. The Rulebook becomes effective on 30 November 2023.… Continue Reading
On 27 October 2022, the European Payments Council (EPC) announced that they have published version 1.1 of the 2023 EPC SEPA Instant Credit Transfer rulebook and related document on the SCT Inst maximum amount. This version of the rulebook replaces, with immediate effect, version 1.0 of the 2023 SCT Inst rulebook, published in May 2022. … Continue Reading
On 11 October 2022, the Payment Systems Regulator (PSR) released Policy Statement 22/3 ‘Extending confirmation of payee coverage’ (PS22/3). In PS22/3 the PSR confirms its plans to direct about 400 payment service providers (PSPs) to implement a system to offer the Confirmation of Payee (CoP) name checking service to their customers (both as payers and … Continue Reading
On 10 October 2022, the Financial Stability Board (FSB) published the priority themes for the next phase of work under the G20 Roadmap for Enhancing Cross-Border Payments. The FSB has also published a report on the progress made during the second year of the Roadmap. The two reports are being delivered to G20 Finance Ministers … Continue Reading
On 29 September 2022, the Payment Systems Regulator (PSR) published Consultation Paper 22/4 ‘Authorised push payment scams: Requiring reimbursement’ (CP22/4). Introduction Authorised Push Payment (APP) scams happen when fraudsters trick someone into sending a payment to a bank account controlled by a fraudster. Once a victim realises that they’ve been scammed it’s often too late … Continue Reading
On 16 August 2022, the European Commission published Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) of 3.8.2022 amending the regulatory technical standards (RTS) laid down in Delegated Regulation 2018/389 as regards the 90-day exemption for account access. The final draft RTS introduces into Commission Delegated Regulation 2018/389 a new mandatory exemption from the requirement to apply strong customer … Continue Reading
On 20 July 2022, there was published The Payment and Electronic Money Institution Insolvency (England and Wales) (Amendment) Rules 2022. The instrument corrects drafting errors in the rules for the special administration procedure established in The Payment and Electronic Money Institution Insolvency (England and Wales) Rules 2021. The instrument comes into force on 10 August … Continue Reading
On 21 July 2022, HM Treasury issued a consultation and call for evidence to explore reforms to the systemic payments perimeter under the supervision of the Bank of England (BoE). It sets out why now is the time to review the applicability of the BoE’s existing regulatory perimeter over payment systems, the Government’s principles in … Continue Reading
On 8 July 2022, the Bank for International Settlements published a report to the G20 that aims to help payment system operators and authorities understand and evaluate the benefits, challenges and risks of interlinking arrangements. In doing so, it also provides an overview of important trends in interlinking arrangements and application programming interface (API) adoption … Continue Reading
On 7 July 2022, the Financial Stability Board (FSB) published an interim report on the approach for monitoring progress toward meeting the targets for the G20 Roadmap for Enhancing Cross-border Payments. The report provides preliminary recommendations about key performance indicators (KPIs) that could be used to monitor progress over time, and identifies existing and potential … Continue Reading
On 30 June 2022, the European Payments Council published the SEPA Request-to-Pay Scheme Rulebook version 2.1. This latest version of the Rule book, which contains operating rules and technical elements that allows payees to request the initiation of a payment from a payer in a wide range of physical or online use cases, has no … Continue Reading
On 29 June 2022, the Payment Systems Regulator (PSR) published its Provisional Decision concerning remedies following its review into the card-acquiring market. In particular, the PSR has set out proposed remedies being: Summary boxes containing bespoke key price and non-price information to be sent individually to each merchant and shown prominently in their online account … Continue Reading
On 24 June 2022, there was published the terms of reference of the Joint Regulatory Oversight Committee (Committee). The Committee comprises of the Competition and Markets Authority, Financial Conduct Authority, Payment Systems Regulator and HM Treasury. The Committee’s role is to oversee the planning and preparation for the future open banking entity and consider the … Continue Reading
