Payment Institutions and E-Money Firms

We advise firms seeking authorisation as payment or e-money institutions to services throughout the EU.

We advise on establishment and regulatory perimeter queries, capital adequacy, governance, safeguarding requirements, passporting, interaction with regulators and on ongoing regulatory compliance matters.

We offer our financial services clients access to a full range of business law services, including access to expert input from our colleagues in the firm’s Corporate, Taxation, Real Estate, Banking and Finance, Employment and Regulatory Investigations teams.

Relevant Experience

• Advising on E-money and Payment Institution licence applications.

• Advising an E-Money Institution in relation to its capital requirements.

• Advising an investor in Payment Institution in relation to a regulatory investigation and sanction.

• Advising an E-Money Institution in relation to its safeguarding requirements and the permissible investment of client funds.