European Payments Briefing

Daily briefings on European payments regulation and open banking.

• Moneyline deploys VRP for loan repayments; FiDA extends open banking to capital markets
  May 13, 2026
• AMLA flags instant payments; crypto AML gaps; Admiral open banking credit pricing; UK commercial data sharing
  May 12, 2026
• Keel pivots to BaaS; Lloyds backs open banking for credit inclusion
  May 11, 2026
• FCA probes Visa, Mastercard, PayPal wallet dominance; OBL recruits ex-FCA counsel
  May 8, 2026
• New York state-level open banking; FCA sandbox applications surge on AI
  May 6, 2026
• ECB confirms instant payments mandate drove 2025 uptake; Albania digitizes ahead of EU membership
  May 5, 2026
• ECB joins Berlin Group; PSR fines Bank of Ireland UK
  May 1, 2026
• PSD3 and PSR final texts published; Nexi launches Wero in German e-commerce
  April 30, 2026
• PSR merges into FCA; Germany pay-by-bank chapter launches
  April 29, 2026
• FCA absorbs PSR; open banking powers confirmed; EU PSD3 trilogue positioning advances
  April 24, 2026
• Bancomat, EPI, SIBS unlock cross-border QR interoperability; SolvaPay builds agentic payments layer
  April 17, 2026
• Euronet buys PaynoPain; open finance reframed as AI infrastructure
  April 16, 2026
• UK government payments tender; FID standards body targets AI agents; Visa joins Tempo blockchain as validator node
  April 15, 2026
• FCA sets 2030 open finance target; Wise exits LSE
  April 14, 2026
• GoCardless profits; pay-by-bank growing pains
  April 13, 2026