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SCA on the acceptance side under PSD3/PSR: analysis of the final texts

By June 11, 2026August 10th, 2026No Comments

At the 35th meeting of the EPSM SCA Working Group, Simone Giordano presented De Matteis Law’s analysis of strong customer authentication on the acceptance side under the final PSD3/PSR texts.

The analysis addresses issues of practical importance to acquirers, payment service providers, merchants, schemes and technical service providers, including:

  • merchant-initiated transactions;
  • transaction monitoring and the transaction-risk-analysis exemption;
  • SCA delegation to merchants;
  • the use of the EUDI Wallet for SCA;
  • the liability of technical service providers and schemes;
  • mail-order and telephone-order transactions;
  • SCA for refunds, dynamic linking and tokenisation; and
  • the expected PSD3/PSR implementation timeline.

The presentation is available below.