Tag Archives: open banking
Treasury Committee calls for SME lending to be brought within the regulatory perimeter
The Treasury Committee has published the Twenty-Fourth Report of Session 2017-2019 on SME Finance. The Committee highlighted the investigation into RBS’ Global Restructuring Group (GRG), and noted the FCA’s comment that the failures at the GRG might have triggered disciplinary action, had they occurred in a regulated business. The Committee commented that the justification for […]
FinTech industry associations publish PSD2 voluntary guidelines
UK Finance, the Financial Data and Technology Association, the Electronic Money Association and techUK have jointly published voluntary guidelines. The guidelines are directed at account servicing payment service providers, account information and payment initiation services and technical service providers. The guidelines seek to increase customer protection in relation to ‘screen scraping’, including by promoting the […]
HM Treasury launches first Fintech Sector Strategy paper
The Treasury has published its first Fintech Sector Strategy, setting out the government’s proposals to secure the UK’s place as a preferred location to start and grow a fintech business. The paper announces a number of measures, including: a Cryptoassets Task Force will be established by HM Treasury, the Bank of England and the FCA, […]
FCA speaks on regulatory priorities for retail banking
At the Westminster Business Forum on retail banking and payments, Karina McTeague, Director of Retail Banking Supervision, delivered a speech on the regulatory priorities in the retail banking sector. She explained FCA’s priorities as articulated in its business plan, and said all have application to retail banking. FCA is looking closely at how retail banks […]
HMT responds to its PSD2 consultation – Third Party Access
On 9 February 2017, the government published a consultation document, ‘Implementation of the revised EU Payment Services Directive II’, as well as draft legislation. The consultation invited responses on the government’s proposed approach to transposing PSD2 into UK law. The government received over 85 formal responses to the consultation. This response document summarises the content of these […]
CMA publishes Alasdair Smith’s speech on open banking
In a speech published on 30 June 2017, Alasdair Smith discussed: some of the implications of the Open Banking programme which the CMA launched and which is now well under way the implications of Open Banking for regulation the relationship between the CMA and the FCA
PSD2 and Open Banking
We have written an article for Compliance Monitor on PSD2 and Open Banking, looking specifically at the role and future regulation of third party payment service providers.
CMA publishes final retail banking order
The final order implementing the retail banking reforms has been published. It sets out the timetable for introducing the various remedies the CMA recommended, including: open banking: the largest UK banks must develop and adopt an open API standard between now and Q1 2018; facilitating switching: undertakings on governance and awareness of the CASS service […]