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 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 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 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 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 23 June 2022, the European Banking Authority (EBA) responded to the European Commission’s call for advice on the review of the revised Payment Services Directive (PSD2). The EBA’s response takes the form of an opinion and a report and offers more than 200 proposals to help develop the EU retail payments market. The PSD2 … Continue Reading
On 10 May 2022, the Payment Systems Regulator (PSR) published a summary report produced by its Panel on the Digital Payments Initiative (Initiative). The PSR Panel provides independent advice and input to the PSR on an ongoing basis. The PSR asked the Panel to undertake the Initiative in order to understand the potential barriers to … Continue Reading
On 29 April 2022, the FCA published on its website an update concerning the Linked Services List. The Payment Accounts Regulations 2015 require the FCA to maintain and publish a list of the most representative services linked to payment accounts that are subject to a fee in the UK. The list includes standard terms and … Continue Reading
On 5 April 2022, the European Banking Authority (EBA) issued a final report on the amendment to the regulatory technical standards (RTS) on strong customer authentication (SCA) and secure communication under the revised Payment Services Directive (PSD2). The final report follows a consultation paper that the EBA published last March which set out proposed targeted … Continue Reading
On 29 March 2022, the Payment Systems Regulator (PSR) published its annual plan for 2022/23. Key projects for the PSR in 2022/23 include: Account-to-account retail payments and card fees – the PSR will be working to make account-to-account payments become a realistic alternative to credit and debit cards. Authorised push payment (APP) scams – the … Continue Reading
On 16 March 2022, UK Finance published the UK payments regulation review, making sense if where to go now. This report explores the impact of regulation and outlines how industry, lawmakers and regulators can work together to strengthen and enhance the UK’s payments infrastructure and regulatory and supervisory frameworks, following Brexit and in the light … Continue Reading
On 24 February 2022, the European Banking Authority (EBA) issued a final report containing guidelines on the limited network exclusion under the revised Payment Services Directive (PSD2). Following the publication of the PSD2 in November 2015, the EBA and the European Commission received a number of queries on the application of the ‘exclusion’ under Article … Continue Reading
On 10 February 2022, the Payment Systems Regulator (PSR) confirmed and published a new rule that paves the way for more banks and building societies to adopt Confirmation of Payee (CoP), the bank account name checking service. In 2019, the PSR directed the UK’s six biggest banking groups to implement the first stage of CoP … Continue Reading
On 5 August 2021, the UK’s Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation (OFSI) announced that it has imposed a penalty on TransferGo Limited (TransferGo) of £50,000 for issuing payments to accounts held at the Russian National Commercial Bank (RNCB) in violation of EU sanctions against Crimea (in breach of Council Regulation (EU) No 269/2014, as enforced … Continue Reading
The German Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin) will allow payment service providers with seat in Germany to execute card-based payments online without strong customer authentication (SCA) until 31 December 2020. Based on a communication dated 17 October 2019 (link; only available in German), BaFin thus takes into account the relating opinion of the European Banking Authority (EBA) … Continue Reading
