The head of the United Kingdom’s Payment Systems Regulator (PSR) reportedly said Wednesday (March 12) that he had been aware since January that the regulator could be abolished, as Prime Minister Keir Starmer said Tuesday (March 11) that it will be. PSR Interim Managing Director David Geale told a...
Turns out the appetite for financial deregulation stretches across the Atlantic. U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Tuesday (March 11) announced plans to abolish the Payment Systems Regulator (PSR). The PSR is roughly equivalent to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), and the decision is...
Revolut and Visa reportedly filed legal challenges against the U.K.’s Payment Systems Regulator (PSR), seeking to overturn the regulator’s proposed cap on interchange fees on cross-border online payments. The two companies argue that the regulator overstepped its powers with the plan it proposed in 2023,...
Visa and Mastercard face regulatory action in the United Kingdom following a payments watchdog’s investigation. The Payment Systems Regulator (PSR) is considering “remedies” for the two companies after uncovering a lack of competition in the card payment market, according to a Thursday (March 6) press...
May 21, 2024
Higher fees from the payments networks across the pond have not translated into better service, according to a new report. The U.K.’s Payment Systems Regulator (PSR) issued a 158-page report Tuesday (May 21) that charged increases in the fees levied on acquirers and issuers through the past five years by U.S. firms Visa and Mastercard […]
March 13, 2024
The world’s cybercriminals all share one thing in common: they understand people can be exploited. After all, people make mistakes. They fall for scams, and frequently either ignore or fail...
December 13, 2023
Beyond the card networks, among those that may feel the squeeze should cross-border interchange fees see new caps in the United Kingdom are neobanks. As reported Wednesday (Dec. 13), the...
January 20, 2026
British financial regulators have cleared an open banking project by the UK Payments Initiative (UKPI). The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and the Payment Systems Regulator (PSA) announced Tuesday (Jan. 20) that they will not prioritize a competition investigation into the centralized “access fee” pricing model being developed by the UKPI for commercial variable recurring payments (cVRPs). Per the announcement, cVRPs […]
March 12, 2025
The head of the United Kingdom’s Payment Systems Regulator (PSR) reportedly said Wednesday (March 12) that he had been aware since January that the regulator could be abolished, as Prime Minister Keir Starmer...
March 11, 2025
Turns out the appetite for financial deregulation stretches across the Atlantic. U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Tuesday (March 11) announced plans to abolish the Payment Systems Regulator (PSR). The...
March 07, 2025
Revolut and Visa reportedly filed legal challenges against the U.K.’s Payment Systems Regulator (PSR), seeking to overturn the regulator’s proposed cap on interchange fees on cross-border online payments. The two...