EPIF is delighted to share with you a position paper on the Interchange Fee Regulation (IFR) review that was prepared in response to the Commission's Survey on the effects of the Interchange Fee Regulation.

EPIF welcomes the publication of the EBA’s Consultation Paper on Draft Regulatory Standards on separation of payment card schemes and processing entities: a common feature of our membership is a dependence upon fair access to domestic and international payment schemes/networks; domestic interbank settlement systems and bank accounts. Therefore we have a special interest in the proposed split of schemes’ [...]

The European Payment Institutions Federation is pleased to share its views on the draft Interchange Fees Regulation. In its paper, EPIF articulates how a number of the central proposals in the draft Regulation would impact small market players and what this would mean for competition and consumer choice in the payments sector.