Publications

MR18/1.7 Annex 5 - Barriers to entry and expansion - Card-acquiring market review

15/09/2020

This annex considers whether potential barriers to entry and expansion for providers of card-acquiri…

MR18/1.7 - Glossary - Card-acquiring market review

15/09/2020

This glossary sets out terms, expressions and abbreviations used frequently in our card-acquiring ma…

MR18/1.7 - Annex 4 - Scheme fees - Card-acquiring market review

15/09/2020

This annex describes the analysis we carried out to examine how average scheme fees as a percentage…

MR18/1.7 Annex 1 - Industry background - Card-acquiring market review

15/09/2020

This annex provides background information on the industry relevant to our assessment.

MR18/1.7 Annex 2 - Pass-through analysis - Card-acquiring market review

15/09/2020

This annex describes the analysis we conducted on whether acquirers passed through the cost savings…

MR18/1.7 Annex 3 - Financial Review - Card-acquiring market review

15/09/2020

Profitability analysis can help us understand how competition is functioning.

MR18/1.7 - Market review into the supply of card-acquiring services: Interim report

15/09/2020

We have published our interim report on the supply of card acquiring services which shows that merch…

Pass-through disclosure in the market review into card-acquiring services

14/09/2020

We’ll shortly be publishing the interim report of our market review into card-acquiring services and…

Draft undertakings for the confidentiality ring used for pass-through disclosure

14/09/2020

We are disclosing material underlying our the pass-through analysis in our market review into card-a…