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Today the EPC published the 2021 EPC SEPA payment scheme rulebooks and the related Implementation guidelines (IGs). All 2021 EPC SEPA payment scheme rulebooks enter into force on 21 November 2021. To ensure planning security for all market participants, the publication of the new rulebook versions f

As of 1 January 2021 the United Kingdom (UK) is set to leave the single market and customs union, either with an European Union (EU) - UK deal, negotiated during the transition period, or without it (i.e. "no-deal" Brexit). The UK will at that point maintain participation in the Single Euro payments

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

On 1 January 2021, the UK left the EU Single Market and Customs Union. In the run-up to that date, the European Payments Council (EPC) requested on several occasions all SEPA payment scheme participants to implement the measures described below, to ensure a continued smooth processing of cross-

The multi-stakeholder group on mobile initiated SEPA (instant) credit transfers (MSG MSCT) has prepared the second release of the document “Mobile Initiated SEPA (Instant) Credit Transfer Payments and Technical Interoperability Guidance” (MSCT IG), originally published in 2019. The document inclu

On 7 March 2019, the EPC published its decision paper on Brexit and United Kingdom’s (UK) payment service providers’ (PSPs) participation in the EPC SEPA payment schemes, approving UK Finance's application for the continued participation of UK PSPs in the EPC SEPA payment schemes, even in the event

Today the EPC published the version 1.7 of the Clarification Paper on Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA) Credit Transfer (SCT) and SEPA Instant Credit Transfer (SCT Inst) rulebooks. The objective of this new document is to offer information and recommendations to the scheme participants. This ve