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

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

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

The European Payments Council (EPC) has released today the updated clarification papers aimed at enhancing the understanding and consistent implementation of the SEPA Credit Transfer (SCT), SEPA Instant Credit Transfer (SCT Inst), SEPA Direct Debit Core (SDD Core) and SEPA Direct Debit Business-to-B

The European Payments Council (EPC) has released today the EPC Directory Service (EDS) Application Programming Interfaces (API) specifications.This specification outlines the functionalities available through the EDS API, including the Automated Download Service for retrieving the full EDS content i

The Verification Of Payee (VOP) scheme developed by the European Payments Council (EPC) is based on Application Programming Interfaces (APIs). For enabling  cross-border  interoperability and reachability between participants of the VOP scheme - as well as between these participants and th

The views expressed in this article are solely those of the author and should not be attributed to the European Payments Council.Instant payments are shaping the future of cross-border transactions. In this interview, Juan Luis Encinas Sánchez, CEO of Iberpay, discusses the company’s participation i

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 Isabelle Olivier about Visa Direct's impact on global payments, the challenges in the retail and account-to-account (A2A) payments markets, and Visa's contri

The European Payments Council (EPC) has released guidelines for the EPC Directory Service (EDS) Web Graphical User Interface (GUI), providing detailed instructions on its usage. The EDS is accessible by scheme participants and their technical providers (e.g. Routing and/or Verification Mechanisms (R