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European Parliament Adopts Revised Directive on Payment Services
10/08/2015
The European Parliament announced that it adopted the revised Directive on Payment Services known as PSD2, which will repeal the current PSD. The aims of PSD2, which focuses on electronic payments and payment services within the EU, include making payments between Member States as secure, easy and efficient as those made within a Member State, regulating new types of payment services and payment services providers which are currently unregulated and stimulating competition in the electronic payments market. The Directive is expected to be formally adopted by the EU Council of Ministers and will then be published in the Official Journal of the European Union. Member States will then have two years to introduce PSD2 into national law.
View the text of the revised Directive.
View the press release.
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