14 July 25
The European Payments Council (EPC) and Swift have created a set of videos explaining, along with the documentation, the functioning of the EPC Directory Service (EDS).These videos focus on registration in the EDS by VOP scheme participants, how the PSPs participating in the VOP scheme can delegate
07 July 25
Today, the European Payments Council (EPC) launched a public ‘call for interest’ to identify Directory Service Providers that own directories of BICs, official national identifiers (National IDs) and/or IBAN ranges, and allowing retrieval of BICs from customer account numbers (IBANs). These Director
30 June 25
Today the European Payments Council (EPC) published version 4.0 of the Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA) Request-to-Pay (SRTP) Implementation Guidelines (IGs). These IGs set out the rules for implementing the relevant ISO 20022 XML message standards based on version 4.0 of the SRTP scheme rulebo
24 June 25
As of today, the European Payments Council (EPC) has officially launched the second phase of the EPC Directory Service (EDS) Pilot in test environment . This extended phase is now open to all Verification Of Payee (VOP) scheme participants and qualified Routing and/or Verification Mechanisms (RVMs).
20 June 25
The European Payments Council (EPC) is pleased to announce that its API Reference Toolbox (ART) test and self-certification platform for the Verification Of Payee (VOP) scheme, in collaboration with StreamMind, is available to all payment service providers (PSPs) that are not using a Routing and/or
23 May 25
The European Payments Council (EPC) is pleased to announce the successful completion of the Pilot phase of its API Reference Toolbox (ART) test and self-certification platform for the Verification Of Payee (VOP) scheme. Following this milestone, the platform is officially opened to all Routing and/o
22 May 25
The European Payments Council (EPC) Board has today approved the inclusion of Serbia in the geographical scope of the Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA) payment schemes.The geographical scope of the SEPA payment schemes now covers 41 countries.As a result, all existing EPC payment scheme participants
19 May 25
The European Payments Council (EPC) has published the Verification of Payee (VOP) API Reference Toolbox (ART) – Test Cases document.This release is a part of the ART, a dedicated test environment developed to support Payment Service Providers (PSPs) and Routing and Verification Mechanisms (RVM
30 April 25
The European Payments Council (EPC) has released “EDS Onboarding and Registration Guide”, offering step-by-step instructions on how the Verification of Payee (VOP) scheme participants and Routing and/or Verification Mechanism (RVM) can register for using the EPC Directory Service (EDS) via the EDS G
25 April 25
The European Payments Council (EPC) has launched a public consultation to explore how it can best support and facilitate the use of SEPA Instant Credit Transfer (SCT Inst) at the Point Of Interaction (POI).Regulatory BackgroundThe Instant Payments Regulation amending the Single Euro Payments A
