Our glossary aims to provide a (mostly) brief explanation of the most important terms concerning banking law, banking supervisory law, payment transactions, as well as anti-money laundering law. It’s not our intention to provide a comprehensive list but we intend to continuously expand upon our definitions with further entries. So, please feel free to visit our site every now and then to look up an explanation or two. Above all, we welcome any suggestions or details regarding terms that are missing, which you feel should be included in a glossary like ours. Feel free to contact us!
A
B
C
- Cardholder
- Carrier Billing
- Cash placement business
- Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC)
- Chargeback
- CI Regulation
- Civil law (private law)
- CJEU
- Closed loop
- Co-badging
- Co-branding
- Commercial Agent Exemption
- Compliance Officer
- Consent
- Consumer
- Controller
- Corporate card
- Credit card agreement
- Credit institution
- Credit transfer
- Critical Infrastructures (CI)
- Crowdfunding Regulation | ECSPR
- CRR credit institution
- Crypto Assets
- Crypto custody business
- Cryptocurrency | Crypto currency
- Customer due diligence
- Customer exploration
D
E
F
G
- Gambling activities
- GameFI
- GDPR (EU General Data Protection Regulation)
- German Banking Act (KWG)
- German Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin)
- German Federal Ministry of Finance (BMF)
- German Federal Office for Information Security (Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik, BSI)
- German Payment Services Supervision Act
- German Securities Trading Act
- Gift card | voucher card
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M
P
- P2PE solution provider
- Payee
- Payer
- Payment account
- Payment business
- Payment business involving the extension of credit
- Payment card
- Payment card business
- Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS)
- Payment initiation service
- Payment institution
- Payment instruction
- Payment instrument
- Payment services
- Payment services provider
- Payment services user
- Payment transaction
- PCI Security Standards Council (PCI SSC)
- PEP
- Personal Data
- Platforms and marketplaces
- Point-to-point encryption (P2PE)
- Postpaid card
- Prepaid card
- Processing by a processor | Data processing
- PSD2
- Public law
- Pull payments
- Push payment