- Question ID
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2019_4790
- Legal act
- Directive 2015/2366/EU (PSD2)
- Topic
- Strong customer authentication and common and secure communication (incl. access)
- Article
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97
- COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs/Recommendations
- Regulation (EU) 2018/389 - RTS on strong customer authentication and secure communication
- Article/Paragraph
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1
- Type of submitter
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Industry association
- Subject matter
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Keyed Mail Order or Telephone Order (MO-TO) transactions
- Question
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In the hotel industry, if a consumer contacts the hotel directly to make a reservation, the hotel may need to manually key the payment details into their payment terminals. Does this qualify as a Mail Order or Telephone Order (MO-TO) transaction?
- Background on the question
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Current guidance indicates that manually keyed transactions are not viewed as MO-TO transactions (despite their similarities) and would not be out of scope for strong customer authentication (SCA). A significant part of keyed transactions takes place on the same media as MO-TO transactions, as these are often also initiated by mail, fax or telephone.
- Submission date
- Final publishing date
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- Final answer
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In accordance with Article 97(1)(b) of Directive 2015/2366/EU (PSD2), a payment services provider shall apply strong customer authentication (SCA) where the payer initiates an electronic payment transaction. As stated in Q&A 2018_4031, card-based payment transactions are considered as payment transactions initiated by the payer through the payee and thus fall under Article 97(1)(b) PSD2. In accordance with Q&A 2019_4788, card-based transactions where the payee manually keys the payment details into a payment terminal require SCA in line with Article 97(1)(b) of PSD2.
Disclaimer:
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- Status
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Final Q&A
- Answer prepared by
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Answer prepared by the European Commission because it is a matter of interpretation of Union law.
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