Apple Pay Antitrust case: EC press conference (get your alternative wallets default and ready)

It's obviously hard to get excited about online payment methods, but this is the most important thing to happen at the interface between fintech, big tech, and competition that I can think of.

Press conference here.

Press release here. 

Lucky us, Natasha the Great covered it, here.

I wonder how Australian banks - and the @acccgovau - are taking this news, eight years later (from @wavesblog archives  https://www.afr.com/companies/financial-services/apple-is-closed-and-controlling-say-banks-as-iphone-dispute-heats-up-20161017-gs4590 - interestingly also, in retrospect, who their economic consultant was.

Apple Pay tech likely to be open to rivals in rules mulled by EU

TheStar, here. 

Girocard in Apple Pay mit Beschränkungen

Heise, hier. 

Germany's 'Lex Apple Pay': Payment Services Regulation Overtakes Competition Enforcement

J.-U. Franck, D. Linardatos, here. 

Germany’s ‘Lex Apple Pay’: Payment Services Regulation Overtakes Competition Enforcement

J.-U. Franck, D. Linardatos, here. 

Germany’s ‘Lex Apple Pay’: Payment Service Regulation Overtakes Competition Enforcement

J.-U. Franck, D. Linardatos, here. 

Sebastian Louven: „Mit ApplePay hatte der Smartphonehersteller die Finanzbranche eiskalt erwischt“

ESV, hier. 

Bundestag beschließt „Lex ApplePay“

BargeldlosBlog, hier. 

„Lex ApplePay“ – Sternstunden in Berlin und woanders

Paymentandbanking, hier. 

Apple warns of risks from German law to open up mobile payments

Reuters, here. 

Lex Apple Pay: Kopfschmerzen in Cupertino? Der Kommentar von Rudolf Linsenbarth

IT Finanzmagazin, hier.