Reporting and compliance for payment institutions, electronic money institutions, and account servicing PSPs. This section covers PSD2 reporting requirements, the upcoming PSD3/PSR transition, SEPA Instant Payments Regulation, Verification of Payee under the EPC scheme, the digital euro PSP pilots, CESOP cross-border payments reporting, and EPC industry reports. Articles are practical guides – what to file, who reports, deadlines, and templates – aimed at payment firms across the EU. You’ll find both pillar reference guides and ongoing analysis of regulatory developments at the EBA, ECB, and European Payments Council. Start with the PSD2 reporting guide or the SEPA Instant Payments guide for the fundamentals.
On 19 August 2026 the Eurosystem named 61 financial market stakeholders and public sector institutions to the Appia contact group, the standing forum that will now shape how central bank money settles tokenised assets in Europe. The seats were filled from a call for expressions of interest issued on 1 June 2026, and the group…
On 18 August 2026 the European Central Bank asked a narrow slice of the technology industry a very specific question: are the secure-hardware standards behind the offline digital euro mature enough, and does the market support them? The call for expression of interest, published through the ECB’s market infrastructure and payments news channel, gives interested…
On Sunday 9 August 2026, Hong Kong’s Faster Payment System (FPS) is scheduled to suspend all real-time services for ten hours. The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) confirmed on 3 August 2026 that the FPS will be unavailable from 1:00 am to 11:00 am Hong Kong time while Hong Kong Interbank Clearing Limited (HKICL), the…
From 1 October 2026 the Sveriges Riksbank starts collecting payment statistics directly from payment service providers and payment system operators, and Riksbank payment statistics reporting becomes a standing filing obligation. The obligation sits in the Riksbank’s regulations RBFS 2025:1, adopted on 25 June 2025. Subject to Section 1’s exclusions, it applies to payment service providers…
On 18 May 2026 the Prudential Regulation Authority sent a Dear CEO letter to the chief executives of UK banks and designated investment firms, reaffirming where the line sits between a deposit and everything that only looks like one. The PRA Dear CEO letter on innovations in the use of deposits, e-money and stablecoins, signed…
On 7 October 2024 the reimbursement requirement in PSR Specific Direction 20 became live, and every payment service provider that sends a Faster Payments transaction from a relevant UK account acquired two obligations at once. The first is reimbursement: where an FPS APP scam claim is reimbursable, the sending PSP must reimburse the consumer subject…
On 14 July 2026 the Banque centrale du Luxembourg (BCL) confirmed it will take part in the European Central Bank’s digital euro pilot, joining the ECB and 18 other Eurosystem national central banks in a controlled test of a beta version of the digital euro. The same day the ECB named the 36 payment service…
On 2 July 2026 the Payments Vision Delivery Committee published an update on roles and responsibilities in the future retail payments ecosystem. The FCA and PSR published same-day statements directing stakeholders to it, while HM Treasury published the update on GOV.UK. It reads like a background note. It is closer to a pricing document. The…
On 8 July 2026, the Account-to-Account (A2A) Payments Roundtable published the final A2A payments vision report, setting the long-term direction for Australia’s A2A payments system. The report contains a one-sentence vision statement and does not itself amend a statutory reporting return, filing deadline or technical reporting specification. That is exactly why the vision is worth…
On 8 July 2026, the Financial Stability Board’s Deputy Secretary General, Martin Moloney, told an OMFIF audience that the G20 Roadmap for Enhancing Cross-border Payments is approaching its finish line without having reached its destination. The G20 cross-border payments targets on cost, speed, transparency and access were set in 2021, and most of them fall…