figo RegShield: The first PSD2-compliant product is live in Germany
Via Passporting, the company is preparing for the Europe-wide rollout
For three months, Hamburg-based FinTech figo has been a payment institution supervised by BaFin, permitted to offer account information (AIS) and payment initiation services (PIS) - to date the only company in Germany with such authorisation. In the context of the licence, the company has been granted permission to offer a 'licence-as-a-service' model: figo RegShield makes it possible for partners to offer their services without having their own registration or licence from BaFin, despite PSD2. In early November 2018, the product went live, with third-party vendors already using the capabilities of RegShield and the first PSD2-compliant services in Germany being conducted with figo.
Regulatory compliance is bringing companies like easybill to figo
The primary goal of financial supervision is to ensure a sound and stable financial system that consumers and businesses can trust. So companies that have contracts with account holders for access to their payment accounts and process their online banking credentials are controlled as AISP/PISP. Through our 'three-sided contract model', we make sure that partners without their own registration or licence do not fall under this premise and can be PSD2-compliant via figo
says figo CRO Cornelia Schwertner of RegShield.
The PSD2-compliant product is the right choice for vendors using online banking credentials to access their customers' payment accounts and / or enable them to trigger payments from within their application. So it is for easybill: The cloud-based online billing software provider is one of the first companies to have chosen the RegShield and is already using it.
PSD2 brings a number of requirements that demand enormous resources, tremendous expertise, and a lot of administrative overhead far removed from our core business. In order to outsource this complex process, we decided on figo's 'Licence-as-a-Service' model.
says easybill founder Philipp Gesell.
figo is the first pan-European account information and payment initiation service provider
figo is licensed in Germany and has already been granted approval for the implementation of this licence through corresponding PSD2 passports in six EU countries: Belgium, the Netherlands, Austria, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and the United Kingdom.
With our licence and the passports we have already acquired, we meet the basic requirement to be able to connect PSD2 APIs even beyond Germany's borders and use them for our partners. Eventually, most European banks will offer APIs for PSD2 compliance by September 2019.
explains figo CEO André M. Bajorat.
This makes figo ready for even more PSD2-compliant banking connectivity. All information available at www.figo.io/en/regshield
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