13 March 23
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 provide guidance to the European payment industry in the field of cryptographic algorithms and related key management issues.
03 March 23
SEPA Request-to-Pay Implementation Guidelines Version 3.0
Today the European Payments Council (EPC) published version 3.0 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 3.0 of the SRTP scheme rulebook
23 January 23
Around the web – a compilation of some interesting reports about payments published last quarter
The views expressed in this article are solely those of the author and should not be attributed to the European Payments Council. Getting lost in the flow of new reports? During the last quarter of 2022, the EPC compiled a list of payment related reports that you can check out and download for fr
11 January 23
Results of the EPC poll on the most effective steps to make payments more sustainable
During the past two months, the European Payments Council (EPC) invited professionals working in the payments industry to answer the following question: “In your opinion, what are the most effective step(s) to make payments more sustainable”: The results were as follows: The results show
28 February 23
Green payments: sustainability by design for a more viable future
The views expressed in this article are solely those of the author and should not be attributed to the European Payments Council. Currently, more and more companies talk about sustainability and are starting to take action to change their products to become more environmentally friendly and creat
23 February 23
How the Dutch became the frontrunners in payment transformation
The views expressed in this article are solely those of the author and should not be attributed to the European Payments Council. The Netherlands has a fascinating and ever-changing payment landscape where card payments are increasing each year and are preferred over cash payments. We wanted to k
27 January 23
How Lithuania’s payment landscape is changing
The views expressed in this article are solely those of the author and should not be attributed to the European Payments Council. We continue our series of European payment landscapes with a profile of Lithuania. Lithuania’s payment service provider (PSP) community was among the first to adhere t
20 January 23
The transformation of the UK payments landscape
The views expressed in this article are solely those of the author and should not be attributed to the European Payments Council. We continue our series of European payment landscapes with the profile of the United Kingdom (UK), and we interviewed Jana Mackintosh, Managing Director for Payments a
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Infographic: The Czech payment landscape (April 2019)
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How the SPL scheme works in practice to facilitate (mobile) P2P payments*? (February 2019)
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The Italian payment landscape (January 2019)
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The Norwegian payment landscape (October 2018)
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The Portuguese payment landscape (August 2018)
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Improving the efficiency of the handling cash: Recirculation
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What the GDPR means for payments? (April 2018)
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The German payment landscape (April 2018)
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Understanding the final RTS for strong customer authentication and common and secure open standards of communication under PSD2 (February 2018 - updated May 2018)
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10 interesting facts about SEPA (September 2020)
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The Slovak payment landscape (January 2018)
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The SEPA Instant Credit Transfer scheme - A bounty of uses (November 2017)
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The top 10 benefits of the SEPA Instant Credit Transfer scheme (July 2020)
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The Danish payment landscape (October 2017)
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The Spanish payment landscape (June 2017)
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PSD2 Explained (March 2017 - updated April 2018)
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The Austrian payment landscape (March 2017)
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The Polish payment landscape (December 2016)
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The Dutch payment landscape (September 2016)
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