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Payment Systems Regulator sets out plans to regulate £75trn industry
The Payment Systems Regulator (PSR) has set out how it proposes to regulate the £75trn payment systems industry when it...
Multilateral Interchange Fee (MIF) regulations impacting German banks
TSYS has released its white paper titled “How Issuers in Germany Can Replace Threatened Interchange Fees.” The paper explores the...
Visa and MasterCard bow to Canadian pressure on interchange
Visa and MasterCard have bowed to pressure from Canadian regulators by agreeing to set a 1.5% cap on interchange rates...
ECB identifies 4 key payment systems as systematically important
The European Central Bank (ECB) has flexed its muscles in the payment systems oversight area for the first time through...
EPC launches new SEPA scheme management bodies
The European Payments Council (EPC) is to set up a host of new bodies to manage the Single euro payments...
New UK regulator will supervise Visa and MasterCard
The UK government is planning to put supervision of MasterCard and Visa alongside the UK’s main interbank payment systems under...
Cross Border Acquiring interchange concessions – new risks for acquiring?
The recent card scheme cross border acquiring (CBA) concessions have created a new model for cross-border acquiring. By default they...
US debit card interchange cap to remain unchanged
According to news out of the US, the Federal Reserve Board says it will leave its debit card interchange cap for...