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Cap on EU Interchange fees – New Regulation published
On 19 May 2015, the European Union has taken the last step towards capped interchange fees for card-based payment transactions by publishing Regulation (EU) 2015/751. The Regulation follows a number of antitrust investigations into MasterCard’s and Visa’s multilateral inter-change fee (MIF) by the European Commission and national competition...

Application in UK of EBA Guidelines on Security of Internet Payments
On 2 April 2015, the FCA published a statement on its website as follows:
Security of Internet Payments – EBA Guidelines
The European Banking Authority (EBA) has published its final Guidelines on the Security of Internet Payments. We are fully supportive of the objectives behind the Guidelines and agree with the importance of consumers being...

Consultation launched on the security of internet payments
The European Banking Authority (‘EBA’) published a consultation paper in October on the implementation of its Guidelines on the security of internet payments, developed in conjunction with the European Central Bank (‘ECB’), with the basis of much of the Guidelines stemming from recommendations put forward by the European Forum for the...

BITKOM's position paper on the recent EBA consultation regarding internet payment security
The German Association for Information Technology, Telecommunications and New Media (BITKOM) published a position paper on the consultation for the security of internet payments. In the statement BITKOM comments on the consultations of the EBA.

The EBA’s and the ECB’s recent move to step up cooperation in making retail payments safer
The European Banking Authority (‘EBA’) published a consultation paper on the implementation of its Guidelines on the security of internet payments, the output of work undertaken in conjunction with the European Central Bank (‘ECB’), with the basis of much of the guidelines being work by the European Forum for the Security of Retail...

Strong Customer Authentification under PSD2 and SecuRe Pay Internet
Both, EU Commission and ECB are particularly engaged to make internet payments more secure. The ECB formed a forum of European central banks and supervisory authorities, called SecuRe Pay, to discuss and eventually agree on a set of rules for the enhancing of security of internet payments, one of the most important of such rules being the strong...