Briefings

On 12 December 2018, the European Commission proposed a new Council Directive that would impose obligations on payment service providers (“PSPs”) to record and report transaction information to [...]

On 10 December 2018, the European Banking Authority (“EBA”) issued an opinion to clarify the use of qualified certificates for electronic seals (“QSealCs”) and qualified certificates for website [...]

In a judgment laid down on 4 October 2018, the European Court of Justice (“the ECJ”) decided that an online savings account that allowed account holders to withdraw funds immediately and without [...]

The UK’s Electronic Money Institutions, known also as e-money institutions or EMIs, generally have strong controls to mitigate money laundering and terrorist financing risks, according to a [...]

If your firm is: a provider of financial, payment, e-money and/or account information services, obtained a regulatory licence in Luxembourg, Netherlands, France, Germany or another EEA state, and [...]

Back in February, the House of Commons Treasury Committee (the “Committee”) opened an inquiry into crypto-assets that involved over fifty written submissions, three oral evidence sessions, and [...]