The European Commission envisages to fight money laundering terrorist financing more effectively by implementing an overall European strategy. EBA shall be strenghtened and able to supervise the EU member states and financial institutions in the EU.

On 13 June 2018 EBA has published an opinion on the interpretation of regulatory technical standards (RTS) on strong customer authentication (SCA) and common and secure communication. The opinion clarifies some open questions on the interpretation of the RTS.

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 authorities (such as in Germany, France, UK, Italy and Poland).