The Banking Act 2009 (Wholesale Cash Oversight Fees) Regulations 2024 have been published, together with an explanatory memorandum. The Financial Services and Markets Act 2023 enabled the Bank of England to oversee certain...more
HM Treasury has published the National Payments Vision, outlining the government's plans for bolstering the U.K. payments sector. The Vision, which is an integral part of the latest Mansion House reforms, responds to the...more
The Committee on Payments and Market Infrastructures has published two reports to the G20 that offer key insights and recommendations on the interlinking and interoperability of payment systems to enhance cross-border...more
This new report sets out four thematic findings from the follow-up work the FCA has carried out, which are as follows: The FCA summarizes its expectations of payment account providers, including in respect of the Consumer...more
Future strategy review: PSR requests input on three themes - The UK Payment Systems Regulator (PSR) is working on defining its future strategy. It has published webpages requesting input on three themes...more
We have published the September 2020 edition of our Global Payments Newsletter. Key developments of interest over the last month include: United Kingdom: the Payment Systems Regulator (PSR) has published its interim report...more
The PSR will not review the fees and rules set by Visa and Mastercard, but will look at the practice of bundling, and will examine effects on innovation in card-acquiring services. Following the publication of its Draft...more
FCA Chair hints that new regulation addressing data ethics in the FinTech space may be on the horizon. Will societies of the future be ruled by algocracy, in which algorithms decide how humans are governed? ...more