DISP 1 Annex 1AA Notes on completing electronic money and payment services complaints return form

1Payment Services Complaints Return

Nil returns

If no complaints concerning payment services or electronic money have been received during the reporting period and no such complaints were outstanding at the beginning of the period, the respondent may submit a NIL RETURN by clicking on the relevant box.

Valuing data to be reported

Respondents should report the actual data requested in this complaints return, using single units, apart from in Table 3 where data should be reported in thousands. If the figure is less than one thousand, respondents should enter the figure as a decimal fraction: e.g. if the payment volume for a service is 200, this should be entered as ‘.2’.

Service groupings

In Table 1 and Table 3 complaints should be allocated to the service groupings based on the service the complaint relates to. If a single complaint relates to more than one category of service, respondents should allocate that complaint to the category that it most closely relates to, rather than reporting such a complaint twice. For example, if a complaint is about ATM withdrawal with a credit card, but the complaint is primarily about the ATM withdrawal, it should be recorded under the ATM withdrawal category.

The service groupings do not correspond directly with those set out in the Payment Services Regulations.

If a respondent has not received any complaints relating to a particular product or service during the reporting period, the relevant box should be left blank.

If complaints relate to the issuing or redemption of e-money and not a payment service executed using e-money, these complaints should be allocated to the ‘issuing or redemption of e-money’ category.

The ‘other payment service’ category should only be used in exceptional circumstances when none of the specific service categories are appropriate. A PSP should provide information for up to a maximum of five payment services.

Tables 1 2 and 3

In Tables 1 2 and 3 respondents should report all complaints relating (either wholly or in part) to payment services and electronic money. Note that this is a wider category than PSD complaints and EMD complaints as defined in the glossary, and would include, for example, complaints about breaches of the Principles for Businesses (for firms) or breaches of contract in connection with the issuance of electronic money or provision of payment services.

The complaints time limit rules (DISP 1.6) require EMD complaints and PSD complaints to be closed (by way of a final response) within 15 business days after the day on which the complaint is received (or, in exceptional circumstances, by the end of 35 business days after the day on which the complaint is received).

However PSPs must complete Table 2 with data on all complaints about payment services or electronic money (including those that are not EMD complaints and PSD complaints).

Contextualisation (Table 3)

When providing information giving context to its complaints data, respondents should provide payment volumes for payment services and e-money issuance in the reporting period, as indicated in the form.

The contextualisation metric for pre-paid cards and e-money payments, credit cards, debit cards / cash cards, direct debits, standing orders, credit transfers, money remittance, payment initiation services, merchant acquiring and ATM withdrawal is number of transactions in the reporting period (in thousands).

The contextualisation metric for ATM withdrawals should include withdrawals from the PSP’s ATM network in the reporting period for both the PSP’s own and other PSPs’ customers.

The contextualisation metric for issuing or redemption of e-money is the value of e-money issued or redeemed in the reporting period (in thousands).

The contextual information for account information services should be the number of customers that have used the firm’s account information services (AIS) in the reporting period. For authorised PIs this figure should be the same as that provided by payment and e-money institutions in Q80 of the Authorised Payment Institution Capital Adequacy Return and for authorised EMIs, in Q76 of the Authorised Electronic Money Institution Questionnaire.

DISP 1 Annex 1R

This return (Payment Services Complaints Return) only relates to complaints made in relation to payment services or electronic money. All complaints should be reported in DISP 1 Annex 1R.

Transparency

To improve consumer awareness and to help payment service providers compare their performance against their peers, the FCA may publish aggregated and anonymised complaints data.

The FCA may also publish respondent level complaints data where it has the respondent’s consent. If the respondent ticks the ‘Yes’ box in this report it is consenting to the FCA publishing the complaints data.