The Statement of the June 2021 Euro Retail Payments Board (ERPB) meeting endorsed a set of recommendations formulated by the working group on transparency for retail payment end-users. The following recommendations have been assigned to payment schemes such as the European Payments Council ( ) Single Euro Payments Area ( ) payment schemes:
- Rec 01: Consistently use commercial trade name and provide this name to all involved parties in the payment chain for use in client’s payment account statements.
- Rec 05: Use standards and applications suitable for including identified data sets “end-to-end”. Upgrade or change these standards when necessary.
- Rec 10: Proactively ensure that their scheme rules encourage all the relevant recommendations to the largest extent possible.
The determined that the various transparency-related recommendations assigned to the different stakeholder groups, must be implemented by June 2024.
On 25 May 2022, the published the guidance document EPC088-22 addressed to both payees and payment scheme participants pointing out that existing elements in the relevant ISO 20022 standard-based XML messages used under the payment schemes can already be used to transport the “whom”, “where” and/or “when” information.
The guidance document lists the existing rulebook datasets and attributes that are suitable to transport and display information related to the “whom”, “where” and “when” in Credit Transfer ( ), Instant Credit Transfer ( ) and Direct Debit ( ) Core transactions.
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scheme participants should strongly encourage their payees concerned (e.g., (online) merchants, large
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scheme datasets and attributes to provide more clarity to the payer about the “whom”, “where” and “when” of a
transaction.