Direct Debit Payments and SCA: the story continues
The applicability of the rules of strong customer authentication ("SCA") to direct debit transactions has been subject to various statements by the EBA and the BaFin. On 7 June 2019, the EBA published another statement via its Q&A-tool (Question ID 2019_4664) on the application of SCA to direct debit transaction. It appears that the application of SCA rules on direct debit payments is now clear at an EU-level.