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SEPA Direct Debit Additional Optional Services
The SEPA Direct Debit schemes (SDD) provide the sets of rules that enable a harmonised application by all participating payment service providers (PSPs) in Europe. PSPs can also provide additional services to meet specific customer needs.
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The schemes rely on global open standards
In order to efficiently and automatically exchange information and process payments in SEPA, financial institutions across the area have to speak the same technical language.
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Register of Participants
The Register of Participants lists all payment service providers (PSPs) and other eligible institutions who adhere to the EPC payment and payment related schemes.
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Participating in the schemes
If payment service providers (PSPs) want to offer SEPA euro credit transfers and direct debits to their customers, they have to formally adhere to the EPC payment schemes.
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Toolkit for new scheme participants
This page will answer all applicants’ questions regarding participation in the EPC payment and payment related schemes.
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EPC Members
The European Payments Council is the European association dedicated to payments, managing payment and payment-related schemes.
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SEPA Instant Credit Transfer
SEPA Instant Credit Transfer (SCT Inst) heralds a new era in payments. Payments are no exception to an increasingly digital and immediate society.
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What we do
The EPC designs and manages euro payment and payment-related schemes that contribute to the creation of a single payments market in Europe and facilitate economic exchanges in the Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA) for citizens and businesses alike.
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SEPA Instant Credit Transfer rulebook and implementation guidelines
The SEPA Instant Credit Transfer (SCT Inst) scheme will make European payments faster and ever more convenient.
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EPC contribution to a SEPA for cards
When citizens travel in Europe or shop online on websites based in other European countries, they should be able to withdraw cash or pay by card as easily as they do in their home country.
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Our organisation
As a membership association, the EPC relies on the active contributions of its members with expertise in different aspects of payments.
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