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Monei, a Spanish payment service provider just joined the Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA) Request-to-Pay (SRTP) scheme. This is good news for this European Payments Council (EPC) scheme which registered its first participant in April this year. Other applications for participation are in the pipeli

We are happy to announce TrueLayer as the first participant to the SEPA Payment Account Access (SPAA) scheme!  This marks a first important milestone for the scheme, which is open for scheme adherence since December 2023. The SPAA scheme covers the set of rules, practices and standards th

The EPC is launching today a call for (additional) participants in the SEPA Payment Account access (SPAA) Scheme Interest Group, which was set up at the end of 2021 to ensure maximum stakeholder involvement and contribution - in addition to the creation of the SPAA Multi-Stakeholder Groups (MSG) in

On 30 November 2020, the European Payment Council (EPC) published the first version of its Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA) Request-To-Pay scheme (SRTP) rulebook. Today the scheme is set to take off and already counts some registered participants, as well as new ones that are going to launch soon. W

On 1 January 2021, the UK left the EU Single Market and Customs Union. In the run-up to that date, the European Payments Council (EPC) requested on several occasions all SEPA payment scheme participants to implement the measures described below, to ensure a continued smooth processing of cross-

At its 28 June 2021 meeting the Euro Retail Payments Board (ERPB) formally invited the EPC to take up the role of Scheme manager of a SEPA API Access Scheme in relation to payment accounts, in line with the requirements defined in the June 2021 report of the ERPB Working Group on a SEPA API Access S

The views expressed in this article are solely those of the author and should not be attributed to the European Payments Council. Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA) Request-to-Pay (SRTP) is one of the most recent European Payments Council (EPC) schemes. Sami Karhunen, CEO of the first scheme partic

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’ inv

November 2017 marked a major event in an increasingly instant world: the launch of the Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA) Instant Credit Transfer (SCT Inst), which enables credit transfers in ten seconds – or less – across the SEPA. Since its launch, the SCT Inst scheme has kept on growing, and the la