On 24 April 2025, the Dutch Authority for the Financial Markets (Autoriteit Financiële Markten, the AFM) published a news update concerning the European Accessibility Act (Directive (EU) 2019/882, the EAA), which will become applicable in the Netherlands as of 28 June 2025. In this news item, the AFM urges financial institutions
On 27 March 2025, the Financial Stability Board (FSB) announced the establishment of the Forum on Cross-border Payments Data.
The Forum will be a platform for dialogue, information exchange, and research, helping to identify and address inconsistencies in global data frameworks. An advisory body comprised of private sector representatives will also be created
On 10 March 2025, the European Central Bank (ECB) issued a press release stating that it had positively concluded its exploratory work for offering a Verification of Payee (VoP) service for payment service providers (PSPs) building on the services developed by the Banco de Portugal and Latvijas Banka.
The
On 18 February 2025, the Dutch Central Bank (De Nederlandsche Bank, DNB) posted an update on the Instant Payments Regulation (IPR). The IPR entered into force on 8 April 2024 and payment service providers (PSPs) needed to comply with a first set of obligations from 9 January 2025, with more
On 31 July 2024, the European Banking Authority (EBA) issued a public consultation on draft Implementing Technical Standards (ITS) for uniform reporting templates in relation to the level of charges for credit transfers and share of rejected transactions under the Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA) Regulation.
On 19 March