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List of EPC members

Seventy-seven organisations representing payment service providers (PSPs) throughout SEPA (PSPs and national or European associations of PSPs) are currently members of the EPC. One organisation has the status of ‘associate member’.

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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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SEPA for cash

The SEPA project and the EPC’s drive to improve payments harmonisation and innovation in Europe both encourage a shift from cash to electronic payments.

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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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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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Mobile proximity payments

If you have ever tried to pay with your smartphone in a shop, you are familiar with ‘mobile proximity payments’. The smartphone is the device used to access payment details such as card information when executing a face-to-face transaction.

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Insight

06 September 21

The investigation phase of the digital euro project is about to start

The views expressed in this article are solely those of the author and should not be attributed to the European Payments Council. After analysis, experiments and input from citizens and professionals, the Governing Council of the European Central Bank (ECB) has decided to launch the investigation

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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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Insight

26 July 21

Digital payments in Cyprus

The views expressed in this article are solely those of the author and should not be attributed to the European Payments Council. Although electronic payments are gaining popularity in Cyprus, cash is still king. Nevertheless, there are clear signs that the Cypriot payments landscape is entering

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Insight

12 May 21

Using CoP to mitigate fraud and mistakes in online payments

The views expressed in this article are solely those of the author and should not be attributed to the European Payments Council. SurePay was founded in 2016, providing the Confirmation of Payee (CoP) to all major Dutch banks since 2017 and recently implemented this service in the United Kingdom

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Insight

26 January 21

Instant payment environment in Slovenia

The views expressed in this article are solely those of the author and should not be attributed to the European Payments Council. Since November 2020, the SEPA Instant Credit Transfer (SCT Inst) scheme has been in use in Slovenia, where six payment service providers (PSPs) have joined the scheme

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About us

We help make it possible for citizens and businesses to pay with the same ease and convenience across the Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA) as in their home country.

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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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Insight

26 May 21

Pushing the frontiers of payments: towards a global payments area

The views expressed in this article are solely those of the author and not necessarily those of the BIS or CPMI and they should not be attributed to the European Payments Council.  The Committee on Payments and Market Infrastructures (CPMI), the global standard setter that aims to enhance th

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Insight

27 October 21

Smarter access to cash in Belgium

The views expressed in this article are solely those of the author and should not be attributed to the European Payments Council. We interviewed Kris De Ryck, CEO of Batopin to learn more about the Batopin initiative in Belgium and what were the key drivers for such a decision.  Could you

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Insight

19 November 21

Strong corporate appetite for European Request to Pay services

The views expressed in this article are solely those of the author and should not be attributed to the European Payments Council. We interviewed Thomas Egner, Secretary General, Euro Banking Association (EBA) to know more about the key findings of the Euro Banking Association (EBA)’s recent Reque

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Insight

28 April 21

Instant payments in Bulgaria

The views expressed in this article are solely those of the author and should not be attributed to the European Payments Council. The Bulgarian payment services company BORICA AD launched BLINK, its local-currency (lev) instant payments project, at the beginning of this month. The project is comp

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