On December 3, Payments Europe convened policymakers, industry leaders, and subject matter experts for a high-level roundtable on the Payment Services Regulation and Directive (PSR/PSD) and the Digital Euro. The event took place at a key moment in the EU’s political cycle: at the crossroads of the Hungarian and Polish Presidencies of the Council and with the new European Commission in office. With over 30 experts around the table, we are especially grateful for the valuable contributions from representatives of the incoming Polish Presidency, alongside the French, German, Italian, Spanish, Danish and Cypriot permanent representations to the EU. Recurring discussion topics were fraud prevention, open banking, ensuring the highest level of data protection, and fair competition.

Latest Payments Europe research on the Greek payments landscape reveals an evolving and increasingly digitalised market and provides insights into consumer and merchant preferences and priorities.

The European payments sector has gone through great changes in the past years. Today, there is wide choice and competition between providers and solutions, which illustrates that the market is functioning well.

Payments Europe hosted a private roundtable for members, friends of the association and industry experts from the European Institutions, to discuss the latest regulatory opportunities and challenges in the payments space. This timely event, just after the European elections and ahead of the new European Commission’s formation, saw valuable contributions from representatives of the incoming Hungarian Presidency, as well as representatives of the Polish and Italian permanent representations.

The digital payments industry urges the European Commission to clarify and confirm the exclusion of point-of-sale (“POS”) hardware from the requirements laid down in Article 11(1) of the new EU Regulation 2023/1542 on Batteries and Waste Batteries (‘the Regulation”).