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As part of the development of the SEPA Payment Account Access (SPAA) scheme, the European Payments Council (EPC) selected PricewaterhouseCoopers Business Services S.r.l. (‘PwC Italy’) as Economic Consultant.  In June 2021 the Euro Retail Payments Board (ERPB) invited the EPC to take up the r

The European Payments Council (EPC) is delighted to count among its members a new organisation: •    PostePay, part of the Poste Italiane Group (based in Italy) As of 1 January 2024, the EPC represents 79 payment service providers and their associations.  

The views expressed in this article are solely those of the author and should not be attributed to the European Payments Council. At the start of 2024 we were delighted to welcome a new member: PostePay. We spoke to PostePay’s General Manager, Laura Furlan, about payment trends, PostePay’s role w

The views expressed in this article are solely those of the author and should not be attributed to the European Payments Council. Spunta Banca distributed ledger technology (DLT) is a project promoted by the Italian Banking Association (ABI) and coordinated by ABI Lab. It has been fully operation

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. Two and a half years on, the scheme has grown significantly, and the

This time of the year is very special for the European Payments Council (EPC): the Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA) Instant credit transfer (SCT Inst) scheme is celebrating its fifth anniversary! To mark this occasion, we are sharing the most significant achievements of the SCT Inst scheme, its oppo

The instant payments space had been gaining significant traction in recent years, and access to immediate funds has become paramount for consumers and businesses in particular in the current pandemic. We launched the SEPA Instant Credit Transfer (SCT Inst) scheme almost three and a half years ago, a

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 interviews presenting the opinions of various stakeholders on the implementation of the revised Payment Services Directive (PSD2) with the in