The Fine Print

The UK Treasury is consulting until 21 March 2021 on its approach to extending financial regulation to 'cryptoassets'. This is inte...

Source: Financial Times 'Buy now pay later' providers and merchants have until 2 March 2021 to meet new guidance on how to comply wi...

According to the FCA's figures in August 2016, the end of financial services passporting between the EEA and the UK was going to lea...

E-commerce marketplaces are now common in most sectors, enabling suppliers and consumers of all types of goods and services to find each ...

The UK's Financial Conduct Authority has told firms based elsewhere in the European Economic Area who rely on a 'passport' to...

The European Union has today warned financial services firms that rely on EU passports to make alternative arrangements ahead of Brexit ....

As mentioned previously , UK retailers won't be able to charge their customers a fee for using most forms of payment from 13 January 20...

Three years after being announced in the UK and I suspect many retailers are yet to realise that their loyalty/store card programmes w...

Consumer advocates have raised the issue of some uncertainty about which credit card transactions benefit from the statutory right to pur...

In deciding whether or not a firm's activities are caught by the new Payment Services Directive (PSD2) as implemented in the UK by ne...

The FCA is consulting on its approach to supervising the new regulations that will implement PSD2 . It's a huge job, and delays to th...

Well it's been a dismal six months watching the politicians shadow-box among themselves over what Brexit really means. There's no...

The Bank of England is consulting on the reform of its Retail Gross Settlement System ("RTGS"), which processes half a trillio...

The UK's Financial Conduct Authority is rightly proud of its Innovation Hub, Regulatory Sandbox and new "RegTech" approach...

The new Payment Services Directive (PSD2) has been approved by the European Parliament . Following the Parliament’s vote, in order to tak...

True to form, the EU Parliamentary process threw up an amended proposal for the new Payment Services Directive last Tuesday, leaving eve...

The Payments Account Directive ( PAD ) must be implemented in the UK by 18 September 2016, and the Treasury is consulting on how to do i...

I have updated my article for the SCL on the differences between the Payment Services Directive (PSD) and the latest compromise text of P...

The Treasury has published its response to the recent call for evidence on virtual currencies. The plan is to apply anti-money launderin...

Worth noting that the text of the Merchant Interchange Fees Regulation dated 16 January 2015 differs substantively from the version publ...