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Contact

We make extensive information about the SEPA payment schemes and our other activities publicly available on our website. If you cannot find the answer to your question, do not hesitate to contact us by filling in the form below. We will be glad to help.

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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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EPC Members

The European Payments Council is the European association dedicated to payments, managing payment and payment-related 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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Insight

18 July 23

The Croatian payment landscape

The views expressed in this article are solely those of the author and should not be attributed to the European Payments Council. Croatia became the 20th EU Member State to join the euro on 1 January this year. Since the end of June, the SEPA Instant Credit Transfer (SCT Inst) scheme has been in

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Insight

27 January 23

How Lithuania’s payment landscape is changing

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 Lithuania. Lithuania’s payment service provider (PSP) community was among the first to adhere t

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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

16 March 22

Instant payments in Slovakia

The views expressed in this article are solely those of the author and should not be attributed to the European Payments Council. Since January 2022, the SEPA Instant Credit Transfer (SCT Inst) scheme has been in use in Slovakia, where three payment service providers (PSPs) have joined the scheme

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