EBA clarification: Setting up a SEPA direct debit mandate does not require strong customer authentication
After the European Banking Authority (EBA) sparked considerable excitement with one of its answers given in the Q&A…
Strong customer authentication for online SEPA direct debits: BaFin’s clarification
You shall never ask me? But questions are useful as sometimes answers are indeed given… In one of…
PayTechTalk 37 – Approval procedures: directors, qualifying holdings, and capital requirements
In our 34th episode of PayTechTalk I talked with my colleague Christian about the licence types for payment…
PayTechTalk 36 – PayTechLaw and Payment & Banking take a look at the status of PSD2 and the implementation of the RTS SCA
After our first joint podcast with Kilian Thalhammer at the Money20/20 Europe in (back then still) Copenhagen and…
PayTechTalk 34 – licence types for payment service providers
Recently I looked into the topic of licence types for payment service providers on PayTechLaw. In my…
May I or may I not? The types of licences for payment service providers
Perhaps you’ve experienced this before? When talking to different people about what licence is required for payment services,…
Payment services. What is what?
Do you know the type of questions where the answer depends on who you ask? An example of…
Screen Scraping is dead – long live Screen Scraping!
A heated debate has been going on for years as to whether account information services providers (AISP) and…
PayTechLaw Top10 – The most clicked-on blog entries of 2018
We have finally digested the roast, scoffed all the tasty biscuits and properly disposed of the wrapping paper…
PayTechTalk 30: BaFin licence for payment institutions – this is how it works
Since the implementation of PSD2, or most likely even before, many companies have been preoccupied with one question:…