EBAday

EBAday is the annual event for European payments professionals organised by Finextra and the Euro Banking Association. This community has been created to deliver a forum for EBA delegates to exchange views on instant payments, open banking and new developments in payments processing and technology.

Retired Member 

Tackling corporate scepticism towards Sepa

The news that ING and Atos are partnering to provide Sepa-compliant payment services to both banks and coporates followed a report released last week which stated that corporates are still very cautious and sceptical about the Sepa project. The research, released by Celent, points out that corporates "were never invited at the table to put fo...

30 May 2008 /payments /retail

Paul Penrose Head of Research at Finextra

Australian central bank cries foul over eBay PayPal mandate

Australia's central bank has stepped into the debate over eBay's proposals to make the use of PayPal mandatory for buyers and sellers on the online aution site. In a submission to the country's competition commission, the RBA raises three issues of concern: "The first is that it could limit the ability of new on-line payment systems to become...

09 May 2008 /payments /retail

Paul Penrose Head of Research at Finextra

Retailers count the cost of interchange

The European Retail Round Table has warmly welcomed the announcement of the European Commission that it is opening competition proceedings against Visa in relation to its multilateral interchange fees (MIF) for cross-border point of sale transactions. The lobby group, which represents 15 of Europe's largest retailers, is urging the Commission to t...

26 March 2008 /payments

Paul Penrose Head of Research at Finextra

Sepa? Next time I'll use PayPal

After recovering from the round of spontaneous street parties and celebrations that marked the introduction of the Single Euro Payments Area last month, my old mucker Dave Birch decided to try out the brave new world of frictionless money transfer in person. Sadly, however, Dave’s attempts to initiate a Sepa credit transfer to friends in the Nethe...

06 February 2008 /payments /retail

Paul Penrose Head of Research at Finextra

Payments online? Just print out and fax back the form

As the main UK payments body, Apacs forecasts payment trends, conducts market research and collates industry statistics. Publications such as ‘The way we pay: UK plastic cards 2007’, come with a £250 price tag and bring together information on how many cards we have and what we spend our money on, both in the high street and online. If you want...

06 July 2007 /payments /retail

Retired Member 

Those EBAday2007 speeches in full...

Missed EBAday? Or perhaps momentarily lost concentration and missed a crucial point during a speech? I do that a lot in the afternoon. Where was I? Oh yes - no problem - here are all the Powerpoints for you to relive the whole experience in the comfort of your own surroundings. Day one Stream 1 15:45 New Business Opportunities through evolving ...

11 June 2007 /payments

Nick Hastings 

The Final Countdown

On the flight back to London from another successful EBAday (www.ebaday.com) I had the closing video sound track in my head. We aptly selected Europe’s Final Countdown as anyone involved with SEPA will appreciate that the final countdown is well and truly on. Two days later I still had the Final Countdown rocking in my head so I decided to downloa...

08 June 2007 /payments /retail

Paul Penrose Head of Research at Finextra

When in Rome...

On a mission to get the non-bank perspective on Europe’s progress towards a Single Euro Payments Area I sat in on a couple of fringe conferences sessions at the EBAday show in Rome. Technology vendors I’d spoken to ahead of the show had promised to stir things up a little, and this they duly did, giving their banking paymasters a good kicking in t...

05 June 2007 /retail

Paul Penrose Head of Research at Finextra

A funny thing happened on the way to the Forum

Blogging from Rome at the annual EBAday conference, a European payments forum organised by Finextra and the Euro Banking Association. Delegates attending the show are looking for guidance and insight as the deadlines loom for the creation of a Single Euro Payments Area (Sepa). Sepa was the big draw at last year's inaugural show in Frankfurt and th...

04 June 2007 /payments /retail

Elton Cane Digital product delivery at News Corp Australia

SEPA testing high on the agenda

With SIA-SSB and EBA Clearing putting the final touches on the SEPA Services for STEP2 over the next month, banks are gearing up to begin testing credit transfers from July, with testing windows for direct debits coming later in the year. Giorgio Ferrero, Chairman of EBA CLEARING, says 90 banks have already signed up for Sepa credit transfer testin...

25 May 2007 /payments