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  • SEPA Instant Payments Regulation – A Practical Guide for Luxembourg PSPs

    Last updated: March 2026 Luxembourg credit institutions had their first deadline on 9 January 2025. They had to be reachable for instant credit transfers in euro by that date. Their second deadline, sending instant payments, hit on 9 October 2025. For Luxembourg banks that were already live on SCT Inst voluntarily, the regulation mostly formalized…

  • PSD2 Reporting Requirements for Payment Institutions: Complete Practitioner Guide

    Last updated: March 2026 Introduction PSD2 reporting is not optional – payment institutions face multiple overlapping reporting obligations including statistical, prudential, fraud, incident, and complaint reporting, each with distinct deadlines, data sources, and regulatory recipients. Payment Services Directive 2 (Directive (EU) 2015/2366) fundamentally reshaped how payment institutions, e-money institutions (EMIs), account information service providers (AISPs),…

  • CESOP: What Payment Service Providers Need to Report

    Last updated: March 2026 Introduction CESOP reporting is a mandatory quarterly obligation for European payment service providers handling cross-border transactions above the 25-payment threshold – missing the deadline or submitting inaccurate data can result in supervisory action and penalties. If you work in payments or compliance at a European financial institution, CESOP likely sits on…