The European Payment Institutions Federation (EPIF) welcomes and encourages the private stakeholder consultation that is currently taking place concerning a review of the 3rd Anti-Money Laundering (AML) Directive.
Payment Institutions’ (PI) compliance with anti-money laundering and counter terrorist financing obligations is a prerequisite for their authorisation under the Payment Services Directive (PSD). The current anti-money laundering framework was, however, established prior to the opening of the payment institutions market and subsequently is arguably not catered to the needs of their various business models.
Published on: 04/04/2012