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As part of the EPC’s regular change management cycle the Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA) Credit Transfer (SCT), the SEPA Instant Credit Transfer (SCT Inst), the SEPA Direct Debit Core (SDD Core) and the SDD Business-to-Business (SDD B2B) schemes, and in line with its commitment to stakeholders’ involvement,...

Today the EPC published a new version of the guidelines on cryptographic algorithms usage and key management in order to provide guidance to the European payments industry, more precisely to security officers, risk managers, system engineers and systems designers. Although its content does not assume...

Today the EPC has published version 2.0 of the SEPA Proxy Lookup (SPL) scheme rulebook which consists of a set of rules, practices and standards that makes it possible to operate, join and participate in the SPL scheme. The rulebook will come into effect on 1 June 2020. The updated SPL rulebook, resulting...

Updated 2019 rulebook versions for the SEPA Credit Transfer (SCT) scheme, the SEPA Instant Credit Transfer (SCT Inst) scheme, the SEPA Direct Debit Core (SDD Core) scheme and the SDD Business-to-Business (SDD B2B) scheme have been published on 5 March 2020. The updated versions are in force from 1 April...

The United Kingdom (UK) and European Parliaments have now ratified the UK Withdrawal Agreement, paving the way for the UK to leave the European Union (EU) on 31 January 2020. The UK will then enter the agreed transition period, which currently runs from 1 February until 31 December 2020. Therefore, the...

The views expressed in the below reports are solely those of the authors and should not be attributed to the European Payments Council. During the last quarter of 2019, we gathered a list of interesting and free reports that focus on different payments’ topics. Check out the list below and download...

The European Payments Council’s Dispute Resolution Committee (DRC) – the body responsible for the compliance function of scheme management) will enter into office on 1 April 2020, when the revised EPC By-laws as well as the Dispute Resolution Committee Mandate become effective. As of that date, the DRC...

In the newly published infographic, the EPC reports on how it fulfilled its main objectives in 2019. It was an important year with several memorable achievements, including: Extension of the geographical scope of the Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA) payment schemes as of March 2019 with the Principality...

After the publication of the “Mobile Initiated SEPA (Instant) Credit Transfer Interoperability Guidance” (MSCT IG) document, the ad-hoc multi-stakeholder group on MSCTs, through a dedicated work-stream, published today a new document named ”Technical Interoperability for MSCTs based on payee-presented...

To contribute to the creation of awareness on payment threats and fraud trends, and to help payment stakeholders decide on possible actions, the EPC publishes the yearly Payment Threats and Fraud Trends Report. Since security is one of the cornerstones of customers’ trust in payment systems, the...

Developed by the ad-hoc multi-stakeholder group (MSG) on Mobile Initiated SEPA Credit Transfers (MSCT), including SEPA Instant Credit transfers (SCT Inst) (MSG MSCT), the draft MSCT Interoperability Implementation Guidelines (IIGs) (including SCT Inst) went through the public consultation until the end...

The Multi-stakeholder Group on E-invoice Presentment and Payment (EIPP), the group responsible for coordinating the work on standardisation of ISO 20022 messages for EIPP, completed its task for 2019.  Today the EPC publishes the MSG’s report which sets out the work done in 2019 and provides...

The Request-To-Pay (RTP) Multi-Stakeholder Group (MSG) has been set up last year aiming to analyse and prepare the concrete and rapid exploitation of the RTP functionality from a broader perspective. Today, the EPC published a guidance document called “RTP: Specifications for a standardisation framework”...

The 2019 Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA) Credit Transfer (SCT), SEPA Instant Credit Transfer (SCT Inst), SEPA Direct Debit (SDD) Core and SDD Business-to-Business (B2B) rulebooks version 1.0 entered into force on 17 November 2019 and are applicable until 21 November 2021. The EPC SEPA payment scheme...

The first “Recirculation Paper” was issued by the EPC’s Cash Efficiency Working Group (CEWG) last year in June. Today, the EPC publishes its revised version.   The “Recirculation Paper” aims to foster the best and most efficient ways to handle cash in the first levels of the cash circulation...

*The views expressed in the below reports are solely those of the authors and should not be attributed to the European Payments Council. During the third quarter of 2019, EPC compiled a list of reports highlighting payment trends, statistics, fintech and open banking. Getting lost in the flow of new...

On 10 September 2019, the EPC Scheme Management Board (SMB) – the body responsible for the administration and evolution of the EPC Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA) payment schemes, decided to amend the maximum amount per SEPA Instant Credit Transfer (SCT Inst) transaction to 100,000 euros, effective...