The views expressed in this article are solely those of the author and should not be attributed to the European Payments Council.We spoke with Anca Dragu, Governor of the National Bank of Moldova, about the country’s successful accession to the Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA), the modernisation of

The views expressed in this article are solely those of the author and should not be attributed to the European Payments Council.We spoke with Igor Velichkovski of the National Bank of the Republic of North Macedonia about the country’s successful journey towards joining the Single Euro Payments Are

The European Payments Council (EPC) has released version 1.1 of all five 2025 EPC payment scheme rulebooks, which took effect on 5 October 2025. Alongside these updates, the EPC has also published updated Implementation Guidelines (IGs) and other related supporting documents.In version 1.1 of the fi

The European Payments Council (EPC) has published today a list of standard test cases consisting of reference IBANs, the Bank Identification Codes (IBAN-prefixes) and the corresponding Account Holding BICs. In the EPC Verification Of Payee (VOP) scheme, reachability of Payment Service Providers

Following the 2024 change management cycle and the need expressed by the market to simplify the SEPA Request-to-Pay (SRTP) scheme adherence process and especially the homologation process, the European Payments Council (EPC) is launching on 1st October 2025 a new  simplified homologation proces

In 2021, the European Payments Council’s (EPC) Board established two multi-stakeholder groups to strengthen dialogue with key stakeholders: the Scheme End-User Multi-Stakeholder Group (SEU MSG), representing European associations of end-users  and the Scheme Technical Player Multi-Stakeholder G