Santander and Iberpay in Spain join EPC’s OCT Inst scheme as inaugural participants
Iberpay will serve as the clearing and settlement mechanism, through Santander, for OCT Inst transactions.
European Payments Council
How Europe’s PSPs are bracing for SEPA instant payments
The European Parliament approved final implementation deadlines for SEPA instant payments on 7 November.
European Payments Council names Giorgio Andreoli as director general
Andreoli says he will be working closely with EPC members to build “the future of payments in Europe”.
Video: pick of the week – European regulator in tech selection; new challenger bank in the US
A top pick of stories from the world of finance and tech in bitesize video format, twice a week.
European Payments Council starts Malware Information Sharing Platform search
The EPC has launched an RFP for a Malware Information Sharing Platform.
Infographic: the Italian payment landscape
How do Italian people pay for their purchases these days?
Professional cybercriminals put the heat on fintech
Danger skulks everywhere in EPC’s latest report on threats and fraud.
SCT Inst: gaining traction one year on
Interview with Javier Santamaría, chair of EPC, to mark the first anniversary of SCT Inst.
Happy tenth anniversary to SEPA payment scheme!
Ten facts and figures celebrating SEPA’s achievements.
Top ten fintech infographics in 2017
From cashless countries to Bitcoin crashes.
European Payments Council report: 2017 payment threats and fraud trends
An overview of the most important threats in the payments landscape.
Infographics: the top ten benefits of the SEPA Inst scheme
Who can not get enough of top ten lists? This latest infographic shows the top ten benefits of the SEPA Instant Credit Transfer scheme.
European Payments Council’s SEPA Instant Credit Transfer scheme goes live
The Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA) Instant Credit Transfer (SCT Inst) scheme created by the European Payments Council (EPC) is now operational. As of today (21 November), the EPC says nearly 600 payment service providers (PSPs) from eight European countries are offering instant payment solutions based on SCT Inst. It was launched last year, with […]
Infographic: 20 top use-cases of the SCT Inst scheme
A bounty of users? The European Payments Council (EPC) has created a nifty infographic that covers the SEPA Instant Credit Transfer scheme.
Infographics: PSD2 explained
This nifty infographics, created by the European Payments Council (EPC), explains all you need to know about PSD2, from what it will change and its key components (such as APIs) to who the new players are.
European Payments Council launches SEPA Instant Credit Transfer scheme
The European Payments Council (EPC) has unveiled its Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA) Instant Credit Transfer (SCT Inst) scheme. European payment service providers (PSPs) now have one year to get ready to process the first SCT Inst transactions in November 2017. Javier Santamaría, chair of the EPC, says the launch is a “new era in […]
SCT Inst scheme: instant payments Europe-wide – have your say!
Flexibility and transparency are key to the first pan-European instant payments scheme, states Javier Santamaria, chairman of the European Payments Council (EPC). Currently, instant payments in Europe operate only within the borders of individual countries or among customers of the same payment service providers (PSPs). To move away from this fragmentation, the EPC was invited […]
EPC launches public consultation on SEPA instant payments scheme
The European Payments Council (EPC) has launched a public consultation on the Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA) Instant Credit Transfer (SCT Inst) scheme. EPC says the proposed scheme is the “first in the world to be interoperable in a region as large as SEPA and is a response to European customer needs for faster payments”. […]
Industry bodies look to harmonise ISO 20022 real-time payment implementation
Global interoperability of real-time payments systems will require harmonisation of market practices and standards. A group of international clearing houses, banks, vendors, payments associations and other parties have proposed setting up an activity to look at how to deliver this under the aegis of the International Standards Organisation – and set an ambitious target of collating an initial variant of ISO 20022 usage guidelines for real-time payments before the summer.
