26 March 24
Call for Interest: development of SEPA Payment Account Access compliant API specifications
Today, the European Payments Council (EPC) launched a public ‘call for interest’ to identify European Application Programming Interface (API) standardisation initiatives that already developed or intend to develop API specifications compliant with the SEPA Payment Account Access (SPAA) scheme rulebo
13 March 24
Yearly update of the “Guidelines on cryptographic algorithms usage and key management”
The European Payments Council (EPC) published today a new version of the document called “Guidelines on cryptographic algorithms usage and key management”. Its purpose is to offer guidance to the European payment industry concerning cryptographic algorithms and related key management issues.This new
12 March 24
Public consultation on change requests for the EPC payment scheme rulebooks
Today, the European Payments Council (EPC) initiated a public consultation on change requests for all five EPC payment scheme rulebooks. This consultation runs from 12 March to 9 June 2024.This public consultation is part of the change management process of the EPC payment schemes regularly organise
12 March 24
Public consultation on the SEPA Request-to-Pay scheme Rulebook change requests
Today the European Payments Council (EPC) launched a public consultation on the Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA) Request-to-Pay (SRTP) scheme rulebook change requests. The consultation will run for a period from 12 March up to and including 9 June 2024.More information about the public consultation
19 February 24
Introducing a new EPC member: PostePay
The views expressed in this article are solely those of the author and should not be attributed to the European Payments Council. At the start of 2024 we were delighted to welcome a new member: PostePay. We spoke to PostePay’s General Manager, Laura Furlan, about payment trends, PostePay’s role w
30 January 24
The euro cash cycle: how does it work and what is its environmental impact?
The views expressed in this article are solely those of the author and should not be attributed to the European Payments Council nor the associations or its members he represents. Cash is the most frequently used form of payment by Europeans at the point of sale. For this reason, an adequate cash
01 December 23
The Finnish payment landscape: a digitalised society with one of the most developed payments ecosystem in the world
The views expressed in this article are solely those of the author and should not be attributed to the European Payments Council. Finland is a European frontrunner in payment digitalisation, with e-invoicing particularly commonplace in the country – a likely trend anticipated to happen in the res
31 October 23
Instant payments in Romania: the engine for development in the payments sector
The views expressed in this article are solely those of the author and should not be attributed to the European Payments Council. The payments sector in Romania has been very dynamic in recent years. Since its launch in 2019, the Romanian domestic instant payment system has seen a sharp rise in u