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News

30 May 22

Clarification Paper on the SEPA Request-to-Pay scheme rulebook

Today the European Payments Council (EPC) published its clarification paper on the Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA) Request-to-Pay (SRTP) scheme rulebook which can be found in “related documents”.  The purpose of the clarification paper is to provide guidance and, where feasible, recommendat

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05 February 21

Clarification Paper on the SEPA Request-to-Pay scheme rulebook

Today the European Payments Council (EPC) published its clarification paper on the Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA) Request-to-Pay (SRTP) scheme rulebook which can be found in “related document”.  The purpose of this document is to provide guidance and, where feasible, recommendations to the

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News

09 April 20

New version of the Clarification Paper on SCT and SCT Inst

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 gui

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News

31 May 23

Latest publications related to the SRTP scheme

Today the European Payments Council (EPC) has published the new versions of the SEPA Request-to-Pay (SRTP) scheme rulebook as well as the rulebook related clarification paper. The SEPA Request-to-Pay scheme rulebook version v3.1 Version 3.1 of the SRTP scheme rulebook, includes some clarificat

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What is a payment scheme?

The payment schemes developed by the EPC are used by thousands of payment service providers (PSPs) in Europe to facilitate some 50 billion transactions each year.

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News

26 June 23

Publication of the updated SPAA scheme rulebook

Today the European Payments Council (EPC) publishes the updated version (1.1) of the SEPA Payment Account Access (SPAA) scheme rulebook, which replaces with immediate effect version 1.0 (published in November 2022). Version 1.1 of the rulebook will come into effect on 30 November 2023. The main c

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SEPA Direct Debit

The two EPC SEPA Direct Debit schemes offer consumers and businesses a convenient and secure means of paying bills. They are used to facilitate over 20 billion transactions every year in SEPA.

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Insight

09 June 21

SRTP scheme - a major advance for European payments

The views expressed in this article are solely those of the author and should not be attributed to the European Payments Council. The Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA) Request-to-Pay (SRTP) scheme covers a wide range of use cases and business models, applicable in many sectors. The scheme can be c

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