EBA publishes final Guidelines on fraud reporting under PSD2

  • Press Release
  • 1 February 2019
The European Banking Authority (EBA) published today its final Guidelines on fraud reporting under the revised Payment Services Directive (PSD2). These Guidelines, which the EBA developed in close cooperation with the European Central Bank (ECB) and which are addressed to payment service providers and competent authorities, are aimed at contributing to the objective of PSD2 of enhancing the security of retail payments in the EU. 
 
These Guidelines require payment service providers across the 28 EU Member States to collect and report data on payment transactions and fraudulent payment transactions using a consistent methodology, definitions and data breakdowns.
 
Having assessed the responses received to the consultation paper (CP) it had published in August 2017, the EBA decided to make a number of changes to the Guidelines and related annexes. In particular, the final Guidelines now no longer require quarterly reporting of high-level data and a more detailed set of data on a yearly basis, but the reporting of a uniform set of data on a semi-annual basis instead. 
 
The geographical scope of the data, too, has been reduced in size and complexity compared to the draft Guidelines that had been proposed in the CP, as the Guidelines do no longer require country-by-country data breakdowns and there is now a uniform geographical breakdown (instead of three different ones). In addition, fraudulent transactions where the payer is the fraudster are no longer within the scope of the Guidelines. Furthermore, jointly with the ECB, the EBA has made particular efforts further to align the Guidelines with related reporting requirements, in particular with the ECB Regulation on payment statistics (ECB/2013/43).
 

Legal basis and background

 
These Guidelines have been drafted in accordance with Article 96(6) of Directive (EU) 2015/2366 on payment services in the internal market (PSD2), which states that "Member States shall ensure that payment service providers provide, at least on an annual basis, statistical data on fraud relating to different means of payment to their competent authorities. Those competent authorities shall provide EBA and the ECB with such data in an aggregated form".
 

Documents

Final report on Guidelines on fraud reporting under Article 96(6) PSD2 (EBA-GL-2018-05)

(1.11 MB - PDF) Last update 1 February 2019

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