TTax Read More 4 minute read UPDATE. Single-purpose voucher? Or multi-purpose? Changes in the VAT treatment of vouchersbyDr. Steffen Rapp23. November 2018 UPDATE 23/11/2018: On 23 November 2018, the German Federal Council voted in favour of the “Act on the… Read More
AAnti Money Laundering Read More 1 minute read Who am I? Identity management and strong customer authenticationbyDr. Susanne Grohé20. November 2018 Identity management and strong customer authentication are the talk of the day. However, the terminology is more than… Read More
AAnti Money Laundering Read More 1 minute read Who am I? Identify, authorise, authenticatebyDr. Susanne Grohé20. November 2018 Identiy management and strong customer authentication are the talk of the day. However, the terminology is more than… Read More
AAnti Money Laundering Read More 7 minute read Right to anonymous paymentsbyDr. Hugo Godschalk8. November 2018 Do we have a right to anonymous payments? If so, is this right linked to certain payment instruments,… Read More
PPayment Read More 3 minute read Geo-blocking regulation: The clock is tickingbyDr. Matthäus Schindele6. November 2018 From 3 December 2018, the so-called Geo-blocking Regulation will enter into force in the European Union and therefore… Read More
PPodcast Read More 3 minute read PayTechTalk 31 – Paymentandbanking and PayTechLaw discuss the “Bitcoin decision”byFrank Müller25. October 2018 Last week I gave you an update on the Bitcoin decision. Let’s recap. On 25th November 2018 the… Read More
BBanking Read More 4 minute read Information obligations under the Payment Accounts Act. Well intended. Not well implementedbyDr. Susanne Grohé18. October 2018 The German Payment Accounts Act (Zahlungskontengesetz, ZKG) already entered into force in 2016. The key part of the… Read More
BBitcoin & Co. Read More 6 minute read „Bitcoin decision“: trading Bitcoin is not a crime – the end of crypto regulation?byFrank Müller16. October 2018 In its “Bitcoin decision” of 25 September 2018, the Berlin Court of Appeal (case no.: (4) 161 Ss… Read More
PPSD2 Read More 1 minute read PayTechTalk 30: BaFin licence for payment institutions – this is how it worksbyChristian Walz11. October 2018 Since the implementation of PSD2, or most likely even before, many companies have been preoccupied with one question:… Read More
PPayment Read More 3 minute read Prepaid cards: closed loop, open loop, restricted open loop or semi-closed loop?byDr. Matthäus Schindele9. October 2018 If you talk to insiders from the payment industry about prepaid card systems, they inevitably use terms such… Read More
AAnti Money Laundering Read More 1 minute read PayTechTalk 29: KYC by Third Parties? This is how it works!byFrank Müller4. October 2018 In PayTechTalk 28 haben wir uns intensiv mit dem Thema Geldwäscheprävention befasst und versucht, die wesentlichen Grundlagen zu vermitteln.… Read More
AAnti Money Laundering Read More 6 minute read KYC and the distribution of e-money: Do I have to or not? Section 25i para. 2 German Banking Act (KWG)byChristian Walz2. October 2018 The German legislator transposed the requirements of the 4th EU Anti-Money Laundering Directive (AMLD 4) into German law… Read More
AAnti Money Laundering Read More 1 minute read PayTechTalk 28: KYC, AML and CTF. Fanta 4? Prevention of money laundering!byFrank Müller20. September 2018 In PayTechTalk 28 I will be discussing an issue that is of great importance for our advisory practice… Read More
PPayment Read More 6 minute read Interchange Fee Regulation: gender-specific universal cardsbyDr. Hugo Godschalk18. September 2018 1 share 0 0 1 0 0 0 The current debate concerning gender-political correctness would appear to suggest that there are not just women and men… Read More