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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

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About SEPA

The introduction of the euro as the common currency for millions of Europeans was a great advance in European integration, but it was just the first step towards European payments harmonisation.

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SEPA for cash

The SEPA project and the EPC’s drive to improve payments harmonisation and innovation in Europe both encourage a shift from cash to electronic payments.

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News

16 March 23

API Security Framework

The European Payments Council (EPC) publishes today the Application Programming Interface (API) security framework that lists the minimum security-related requirements applicable to the SEPA Request-to-Pay (SRTP) and SEPA Payment Account Access (SPAA) scheme participants using APIs, whether they rel

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