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 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…
Last updated: June 2026 A payment service provider that reads the PayNow Generation 2 study as a press release will be a step behind when the implementation roadmap lands at the end of 2026. On 25 June 2026, the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) and the Association of Banks in Singapore (ABS) set out four…
Last updated: June 2026 The pipes that move most of your domestic sterling payments are about to be redesigned, and the window to influence that design closes on 11 September 2026. In June 2026 the Retail Payments Infrastructure Board, an industry advisory board chaired by the Bank of England, opened a consultation on the design…
Last updated: June 2026 Final settlement of many Australian dollar interbank obligations occurs across Exchange Settlement Accounts at the Reserve Bank, accessed through RITS. When RITS-related services are disrupted, some file-based payments and property settlements can miss normal processing windows. On 27 January 2026 that is roughly what happened, and the Reserve Bank’s 2026 RITS…
Last updated: June 2026 If your bank went live with Verification of Payee on 5 October 2025 and then quietly assumed the work was finished, the next eighteen months will surprise you. The scheme that PSPs built against is already moving. A version 1.1 of the rulebook is published, a version 2.0 is out for…
Last updated: June 2026 A consumer survey is not a reporting obligation. Treat the two as the same thing and you mis-scope your year, because the Bundesbank payment behaviour study tells you where transaction volumes are moving, while a separate set of European Central Bank rules tells you which of those movements you have to…
Last updated: June 2026 If your institution settles SEPA instant payments in TIPS, a new reachable corridor just opened, and the operational risk sits exactly where it is easy to ignore. On 10 June 2026 the ECB announced that the TIPS cross-currency settlement service had been successfully tested and formally activated by Danmarks Nationalbank, Sveriges…
Last updated: June 2026 When a TARGET payment fails to settle, the operations team finds out before the supervisor does. A missed cut-off on the T2 large-value system, a securities leg that does not match in T2S, an instant payment that cannot reach a counterparty bank in another currency: these are the events that turn…
Last updated: June 2026 Read the Norges Bank Financial Infrastructure Report 2026 as a status update and you will miss the part that lands on your desk. It reads reassuring on day one and demanding on day two: Norges Bank says the Norwegian payment system runs well, with stable operations and few disruptions, then spends…
Last updated: June 2026 Riksbank cross-currency instant payments reach Swedish payment service providers in June 2026, and the operational risk is timing. The settlement service has existed on the Eurosystem platform since October 2025, so a payments team that reads the platform launch as its own go-live date will plan onboarding, liquidity and customer messaging…