18 November 19
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...
14 November 19
The views expressed in this article are solely those of the author and should not be attributed to the European Payments Council. Over the last five years, an evolution has taken place in Greece towards a more integrated retail payments market. While other traditional means of payment, such as cheques,...
29 October 19
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...
24 October 19
*The views expressed in this article are solely those of the author and should not be attributed to the European Payments Council. According to recent figures from industry association UK Finance, one in ten UK adults now live a largely cashless life – in part thanks to the growing acceptance of contactless...
17 October 19
*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...
11 October 19
As from 17 November 2019, the Extended Remittance Information (ERI) option can be used under the 2019 SEPA Credit Transfer (SCT) Rulebook. From today onwards, the EPC maintains a separate register of SCT scheme participants that support the ERI option. Already ten SCT participants will be able to provide...
10 October 19
The Single Euro Payments Area Proxy Lookup (SPL) is the EPC’s latest scheme which covers the exchange of the data necessary to initiate payments between proxy-based mobile payment solutions on a pan-European level. It aims to facilitate interoperability between participating payment solutions. The...
09 October 19
* The views expressed in this article are solely those of the authors and should not be attributed to the European Payments Council. As of March 2019, the Centre for Exchange and Clearing (CEC), the Belgian automated interbank payment system for retail payments, initiated their instant payment platform...
26 September 19
* The views expressed in this article are solely those of the authors and should not be attributed to the European Payments Council. Sweden is leading the race to become the world's first almost cashless society: the use of cash has been declining for years, and instant mobile payments and other new...
24 September 19
The European Payments Council (EPC) published today the new version of the Creditor Identifier (CI) overview. The recently published document contains a few updates related to the national Creditor Identifier descriptions of Belgium, Denmark, Germany and the Netherlands. The objective of this...
12 September 19
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...
03 September 19
*The views expressed in this article are solely those of the author and should not be attributed to the European Payments Council. This article is one of an occasional series updating the European Payments Council (EPC) community on developments in e-invoicing, an important adjacent space to the world...
02 September 19
On 7 March 2019, the EPC published its decision paper on Brexit and United Kingdom (UK) payment service providers’ (PSPs) participation in the EPC Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA) payment schemes. The EPC Board approved the application from UK Finance for the continued participation of UK PSPs in the...
28 August 19
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) were subject to a public consultation which is now...
22 July 19
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 second quarter of 2019, EPC gathered a list of recent reports that shine a spotlight on interesting topics such as artificial intelligence in financial...
18 July 19
The financial sector has seen a rapid increase in adoption of electronic identification (eID), therefore, the EPC invited professionals working in the payments industry to share their views on the future of eID by participating in the poll. The question asked over the last two months to all interested...
08 July 19
As of the entry into force of the 2019 Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA) Credit Transfer (SCT) rulebook on 17 November 2019, the SCT scheme contains a new annex V describing the Extended Remittance Information (ERI) option. The EPC published today a guidance document which provides detailed information...
04 July 19
*The views expressed in this article are solely those of the author and should not be attributed to the European Payments Council. The Dutch payment service providers (PSPs) community is one of frontrunners in the instant payments field: some Dutch PSPs were among the first to adhere to Single Euro...
28 June 19
In 2019, the Electronic Invoice Presentment and Payment Multi-Stakeholder Group (EIPP MSG) has been working on developing technical standards for the servicing messages based on the design delivered in 2018 and seeks to submit the ISO 20022 Registration Authority request to ISO 20022 by October 2019....
19 June 19
* The views expressed in this article are solely those of the author and should not be attributed to the European Payments Council. 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),...
07 June 19
In recent years, non- Near Field Communication (NFC) proximity technologies (e.g. QR-codes, Bluetooth-Low-Energy (BLE)) have been introduced in the market for various mobile payment services to enhance the consumer experience and to bring additional functionality and services to the customer (e.g. integration...
05 June 19
* The views expressed in this article are solely those of the authors and should not be attributed to the European Payments Council. In 2017, Banque de France launched MADRE, a project using blockchain to improve the interbank system to enable the exchange of Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA) creditor...
