How to become a payment institution in Luxembourg
Payment services within the meaning of the second payment services directive (PSD2) may be provided by different payment…
On the Way to PSD3 – EBA’s Thoughts on Required Amendments to the Regulatory Framework for Payment Services
The review of PSD2 is currently taking place with some delay. With this review, various market participants are…
Revised regulatory technical standards on strong customer authentication and common and secure communication under PSD2
Revised RTS on SCA & CSC under PSD2 On 5 April 2022, the European Banking Authority (EBA) published…
New Card in Town – Legal Aspects of City Cards
City cards as a solution to strengthen the retail trade? The increasing desolation of our city centers is…
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 blog…
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,…