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…
HAPPY NEW YEAR! Happy 2019!
Goodbye 2018 – welcome 2019! HAPPY NEW YEAR! The entire PAYMENT. TECHNOLOGY. LAW. team wishes you a brilliant start…
PayTechTalk Top5 – 2018: The most popular podcasts of 2018
As already hinted at in my last post: after we presented the PayTechLaw Top10, i.e. the ten blog…
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…
Merry Christmas and enjoy the holidays
It’s crazy how quickly time flies by. No sooner have you said goodbye to the winter holidays and…
Reg. 924: Not just bad news for card issuers
The Commission already presented its proposal to amend and thereby extend the Pricing Regulation EC 924/2009 (in short:…
PayTechTalk 32 – Payment Account and Co. | The “old” Payment Accounts Act. What applies from 31 October 2018?
The Payment Accounts Act is an “old” law dating from April 2016 but it is going to be…
On the way to the financial cloud. Are cloud services full of “little fluffy clouds”?
On 8 November 2018, the German Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (Bundesanstalt für Finanzdienstleistungsaufsicht, BaFin) published a guidance notice…
UPDATE. Single-purpose voucher? Or multi-purpose? Changes in the VAT treatment of vouchers
UPDATE 23/11/2018: On 23 November 2018, the German Federal Council voted in favour of the “Act on the…
Who am I? Identity management and strong customer authentication
Identity management and strong customer authentication are the talk of the day. However, the terminology is more than…
Who am I? Identify, authorise, authenticate
Identiy management and strong customer authentication are the talk of the day. However, the terminology is more than…
Right to anonymous payments
Do we have a right to anonymous payments? If so, is this right linked to certain payment instruments,…
Geo-blocking regulation: The clock is ticking
From 3 December 2018, the so-called Geo-blocking Regulation will enter into force in the European Union and therefore…
PayTechTalk 31 – Paymentandbanking and PayTechLaw discuss the “Bitcoin decision”
Last week I gave you an update on the Bitcoin decision. Let’s recap. On 25th November 2018 the…