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
Welcome to the Regulation Round Up, a regular bulletin highlighting the latest developments in UK and EU financial services regulation. 28 February - The Financial Conduct Authority (“FCA”) published Handbook Notice...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
Depositor protection identity verification: PRA PS4/21 - Following its consultation in CP3/21, the UK Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) has published a policy statement, PS4/21, on depositor protection identity...more
PSD2: EBA proposes changes to Guidelines on major incident reporting after latest review - Following the European Banking Authority's (EBA's) latest required review of its July 2017 Guidelines on major incident reporting...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
The new strong customer authentication (“SCA”) requirements under the Payment Services Directive (EU) 2015/2366 (“PSD2”) went live on 14 September 2019. While the new requirements apply only to payment service providers such...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 European Banking Authority has published its final guidelines on the management of information and communication technology and security risks by financial institutions in the EU. The Guidelines set out how financial...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
The U.K. Financial Conduct Authority has announced in a "Dear CEO" letter that it will not take enforcement action against firms that are not compliant with Strong Customer Authentication requirements for electronic payment...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
New guidelines reflect the rise of outsourcing by financial institutions in a new era of disintermediation and technological change. In February 2019, the European Banking Authority (EBA) published its final guidelines on...more
The European Banking Authority has published an Opinion on market approaches to payment authentication that will be deemed compliant with the new rules on strong customer authentication coming into force later this year....more
The European Banking Authority has published an opinion on the nature of passport notifications for agents and distributors under the revised Payment Services Directive, the Electronic Money Directive and the Fourth Money...more
As already mentioned in our previous e-Alert of 16 January 2019, payment service providers must provide, at least on an annual basis, statistical data on fraud relating to different means of payment, to the Luxembourg...more
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) and the European Banking Authority (EBA) published two complementary assessments of the regulatory coverage of crypto-assets under existing EU legislation and also set out...more
By a circular 18/704 of 17 December 2018 (the Circular 18/704), the Luxembourg regulator of the financial sector, the Commission de surveillance du secteur financer (the CSSF) formally endorsed the Guidelines of the European...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
The U.K. Financial Conduct Authority has updated its Approach Document on payment services and electronic money, to reflect final guidelines issued in December 2017 by the European Banking Authority on security measures for...more