Project Regulator, by engaging with key regulatory bodies, pushes for a fairer and more transparent regulatory landscape for payments companies. The project provides a helpful and open forum for members of The Payments Association to swap and share insight, as well as an opportunity to contribute to industry consultations and thought-leadership activities to help resolve the regulatory concerns of The Payments Association community.
To engage with regulatory bodies to promote and champion the regulatory concerns of members of The Payments Association and drive change towards the development of a fairer regulatory landscape for payments companies
Alison Donnelly – Director, fscom
Mike Chambers – Director, Eazy Collect and Northey Point
Giedre Mitkute – Associate Cards & Payments, Locke Lord
Shannon Seitz – Legal Counsel, UK and Europe, Western Union
Gareth Mahony – Head of Compliance, Moorwand
Max Savoie – Partner, Sidley Austin
Mitch Trehan – Head of Compliance, Banking Circle
Melissa Corkhill – Regulatory Compliance Senior Manager, Modulr
Nilixa Devlukia – Founder, Payments Solved
Robert Courtneige – Independent
Richard Mais – Associate Partner, EY
Kai Zhang – Special Counsel, K&L Gates
Manish Garg – Managing Director, Banksly
Dan Jones – Special Counsel, Baker Botts
Mike Peplow – Chief Executive Officer, Paynetics
The Payments Association, through the activities of Project Regulator, engages with regulatory bodies to promote and champion the concerns of Payments Association members in current and future regulation and drives change through the development of a fairer regulatory landscape for payments companies.
The UK payments industry is moving through a period of structural and regulatory change and so the Payments Association is keen to ensure that the payments industry is fully informed of all regulatory change and to ensure that the voice of all Payments Association members is heard in payments regulation. Through the Payments Association’s Project Regulator, the Payments Association has produced an active consultation registry which details consultations that the Project Regulator team recommends an organisational response, highlights all live payments consultations and will act as a navigation tool for Payments Association members.
The Payments Association’s Project Regulator team, in partnership with FIS, has undertaken research to explore the ever-evolving landscape of corporate cards and how companies are using corporate cards more efficiently, throughout their businesses, to retain staff, reduce costs and optimise cashflow.
Created by a consortium of The Payments Association’s members that included senior figures from FIS, Cardlay, Schiltz & Schiltz, NatWest, FLEETCOR and Accenture, this expertise mix drawn from established banks, fintechs and regulatory experts gives a broad view of the corporate cards landscape and its future.
This podcast episode brought to you by Project Regulator will explore how widespread Buy now pay later (BNPL) is in the UK and whether it is a viable market. Tune in to hear our expert speakers discuss what technology is used for BNPL, why it has grown so much and how it differs to your traditional payday lender. Our speakers go beyond this to discuss whether BNPL provides an answer to the lack of affordable credit options in the market, the threats it poses to consumers and how it should be regulated.
Download Ekata and Allyiz's latest eBook where they explore what these global merchants are seeing in the market - the ultimate temperature check on all the effort undertaken by the various payments players in the ecosystem.
This paper will keep you on track with the evolving landscape of payments regulation. The Payments Regulatory Roadmap is designed to give an overview of the areas of payments regulation that our members should be anticipating in the next two years and to know the next steps and action required. And to help you prioritise what is of critical importance and what is less impactful.
This podcast, moderated by Project lead Alison Donnelly, explores the U.K.'s current and future stance on crypto regulation and its potential divergence with the EU/eurozone. The team covers important themes such as AML rules and registration, UK government proposals for broader regulation of cryptoassets and stablecoins, and BoE proposals for a UK CBDC.
This guide offers an insight into how the insurance method of safeguarding can provide payment service providers with economic benefits, help to alleviate some of the regulatory risks and allow customer propositions to be improved.
The paper seeks to identify the current vulnerabilities of the business models that underpin the payments industry, highlight how the direct implications of the FCA’s intervention left consumers vulnerable, and aims to further discussion with the FCA to consider such regulatory processes in the future.
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