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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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EPC scheme participation fees
Payment service providers (PSPs) have to pay an annual scheme participation fee to use the EPC payment schemes.
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Insight
26 March 24
Creating a sustainable pan-European payment method through SPAA
The views expressed in this article are solely those of the author and should not be attributed to the European Payments Council.The building blocks of an open, pan-European payment method are in place: SEPA Instant Credit Transfers (SCT Inst) and open banking to turn them into a payment method. The
Contributing to the future of payments in Europe
The EPC focuses on the harmonisation of electronic methods of payments in SEPA.
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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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