The U.K. Payment Systems Regulator has announced a phase-out of the Phase 1 technical environment that enables certain U.K. payment services providers to provide confirmation of payee.
LONDON Amazon has shelved its plan to stop accepting Visa credit cards issued in the United Kingdom, reports CNBC . A statement issued by Amazon yesterday said that the changes “will no longer take place.”
The New Payments Architecture was delayed for years due to COVID and other factors. It will move ahead focused only on push payments instead of replacing two national rails.
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Visa and Mastercard s proposal to raise scheme fees and U.K. interchange rates on cross-border transactions post-Brexit has increased pressure on regulators to cap them, and on merchants to seek alternatives.
Before Brexit, U.K. merchants benefited from a European Commission-enforced cap on credit and debit card interchange fees for all transactions made between the U.K. and the EU. This no longer applies.
Starting in October, Visa plans to increase the interchange fee on digital payments made between European customers and British businesses from 0.3% to 1.5%, as well as vice versa, while the interchange fee for cross-border debit card payments made online will also rise from 0.2% to 1.15%. Mastercard is planning to implement the same fee increases, but only for online card payments made between British customers and European merchants.
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