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Europe Advances Plans For Real-Time Payments Connectivity With Asia
By linking its TARGET Instant Payment Settlement (TIPS) system with India and Southeast Asia, the European Central Bank (ECB) is accelerating real-time payments globally and challenging European payment service providers (PSPs) to prepare for faster flows and competitive pressures.
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Prolonged Limbo On Open Banking Leaves US Financial Sector Navigating Uncertainty
A renewed push from Democratic senators highlights how the stalled Personal Financial Data Rights (PFDR) rule is forcing banks and fintechs to rethink strategy, as shifting political priorities threaten a stable data-access framework for the long term.
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US Open Banking Rule Highlights Industry Divisions Over Data And Fees
By defining who can access consumer data, whether fees are allowed and compliance timelines, the Personal Financial Data Rights final rule (PFDR Rule) underscores continuing legal and market tensions between banks and fintech innovators.
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EBA Slams Fintechs Over Lax Compliance In New AML Risk Assessment
In its latest risk assessment, the European Banking Authority (EBA) has warned that poor practices and a lack of experience at fintechs, including payments and crypto firms, are undermining efforts to tackle financial crime.
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Sign up for accessRegulatory Influencer: Bank Charters Disrupting Money Transmitter Licenses and the US Financial Services Market
Payment service providers (PSPs), fintechs, and digital asset firms have traditionally scaled by obtaining money transmitter licenses (MTLs) across many US states, each with its own rules and oversight. That model is now being challenged.
Read articlePACE Act Presents a Direct Challenge to the Bank-Centric US Payments Model
The newly proposed legislation represents one of the most ambitious attempts to date to break banks’ monopoly over US payments infrastructure by extending direct access to federal payment systems to qualified nonbank firms.
Read articleRegulatory Influencer: Stablecoins as the Trojan Horse for Federal Payments Reform in the US
New federal frameworks are reshaping US supervisory rules, and banks, nonbanks and fintechs will all need to recalibrate their strategies for a landscape focused more on activity than identity.
Read articleRegulatory Impact Summary: UK Senior Managers & Certification Regime Review
The Financial Conduct Authority's (FCA) changes to the Senior Managers & Certification Regime (SM&CR) are designed to reduce administrative burden and improve proportionality without weakening individual accountability. The reforms were developed jointly with the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) and apply to all SM&CR firms, and further updates are expected later in 2026, subject to legislative change by HM Treasury.
Read articleRegulatory Influencer: Modernizing US AML – The Burden of 'Simplification'
After years of industry advocacy and growing acknowledgment from regulators that the current anti-money laundering (AML) framework is not operating as effectively as it should, two significant proposals signal where the future of AML compliance may be headed in the United States.
Read articleIndia Considers Measures to Fight Rising Digital Payments Fraud
A Reserve Bank of India (RBI) discussion paper has proposed a series of measures to address rising fraud levels in digital payments and ensure that consumers adopting new modes of payment are not making themselves more vulnerable to scams.
Read articleRevised EU Payments Regulation Package Moves Closer With Release of Draft Texts
Regulated firms across Europe can start to prepare in earnest for the new payments regulation framework, as the long period of high-level speculation ends and the roadmap for implementation becomes clear.
Read articleFinland’s Crypto-Assets Ban Faces Long-Term Challenges
Finland’s new gambling laws ban crypto-assets to curb harm, yet this restriction may inadvertently drive players toward offshore sites, potentially clashing with EU MiCA regulations regarding digital payment parity.
Read articleRegulatory Influencer: The GENIUS Act - From Statute to Supervision
With the Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for US Stablecoins (GENIUS) Act enacted into law last year, federal regulators are now required to implement its final rules by July 2026. Ultimately, these rules will create a legal framework for stablecoins, a unique form of cryptocurrency designed to maintain a steady value through pegs to a reserve asset.
Read articleNew Cross-Border Strategy Moves FedNow From Closed Loop to Open Rail
The notice of proposed rulemaking on plans to open the instant payments service to private-sector intermediaries is a step towards permitting its use in cross-border transactions, bringing the US into line with a global trend.
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