09 April 20
Today the European Payments Council (EPC) published the version 1.5 of the clarification paper on Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA) Credit Transfer (SCT) and SEPA Instant Credit Transfer (SCT Inst) rulebooks. The paper applies to the current applicable 2019 SCT and SCT Inst rulebooks and provides guidance...
01 April 20
The EPC now counts among its members one additional organisation: • PERSPECTEEV SAS (based in France) The EPC now represents 76 payment service providers and their associations. Two further organisations have the status of ‘associate member’.
18 March 20
Disclaimer: The views expressed in this article are solely those of the author and should not be attributed to the European Payments Council. We close our series of interviews representing the views of various stakeholders on the implementation of the revised Payment Services Directive (PSD2) with...
12 March 20
As part of the EPC’s regular change management cycle the Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA) Credit Transfer (SCT), the SEPA Instant Credit Transfer (SCT Inst), the SEPA Direct Debit Core (SDD Core) and the SDD Business-to-Business (SDD B2B) schemes, and in line with its commitment to stakeholders’ involvement,...
09 March 20
Today the EPC published a new version of the guidelines on cryptographic algorithms usage and key management in order to provide guidance to the European payments industry, more precisely to security officers, risk managers, system engineers and systems designers. Although its content does not assume...
05 March 20
Today the EPC has published version 2.0 of the SEPA Proxy Lookup (SPL) scheme rulebook which consists of a set of rules, practices and standards that makes it possible to operate, join and participate in the SPL scheme. The rulebook will come into effect on 1 June 2020. The updated SPL rulebook, resulting...
05 March 20
Updated 2019 rulebook versions for the SEPA Credit Transfer (SCT) scheme, the SEPA Instant Credit Transfer (SCT Inst) scheme, the SEPA Direct Debit Core (SDD Core) scheme and the SDD Business-to-Business (SDD B2B) scheme have been published on 5 March 2020. The updated versions are in force from 1 April...
24 February 20
Disclaimer: The views expressed in this article are solely those of the author and should not be attributed to the European Payments Council. This interview belongs to a series representing the views of various stakeholders on the implementation of the revised Payment Services Directive (PSD2)....
13 February 20
The views expressed in this article are solely those of the author and should not be attributed to the European Payments Council. Bizum is a payment service launched by Spanish banks in 2016 to allow users to conduct Person-to-Person (P2P) payments through a smartphone. We interviewed Fernando Rodríguez...
30 January 20
The United Kingdom (UK) and European Parliaments have now ratified the UK Withdrawal Agreement, paving the way for the UK to leave the European Union (EU) on 31 January 2020. The UK will then enter the agreed transition period, which currently runs from 1 February until 31 December 2020. Therefore, the...
29 January 20
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 Luxembourg, which is characterised by the highest banking internationalisation rate in Europe as...
23 January 20
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 last quarter of 2019, we gathered a list of interesting and free reports that focus on different payments’ topics. Check out the list below and download...
