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Company announcement/payments

EBA Clearing's STEP2 completes migration to continuous gross settlement

Today, the participants in EBA CLEARING’s pan-European euro mass payment system, STEP2, successfully concluded the migration to the new continuous gross settlement (CGS) mechanism.

12 July 2022

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EBAday 2022: A deep dive into new forms of digital money

Tino Kam, Head of Product Management, Transaction Banking at Nordea and Daniel Szmukler, Director, Euro Banking Association, speaks about the latest report from the Working Group on CBDCs, stablecoins, cryptotechnologies, and smart payments.

23 June 2022

News/payments

Financial coalition to trial faster cross-border payments between Europe and the US

EBA Clearing, Swift and The Clearing House (TCH) are to run a pilot service for immediate cross-border payments (IXB) with the support of banks from both sides of the Atlantic.

28 April 2022

Company announcement/payments

Answer Pay to introduce Sepa Request To Pay bill payments via EBA Clearing's RTP

Answer Pay, a payment as a service provider, is connecting to EBA CLEARING’s R2P messaging system to offer SEPA Request to Pay bill payment services across Europe.

12 April 2022

News/payments

Step2 to get upgrade to process payments in minutes and around the clock

EBA Clearing will upgrade its Step2 pan-European mass payment system later this year to process Sepa transactions around the clock, seven days a week, and to provide settlement results to participating banks in minutes.

18 January 2022

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Tailwinds for request to pay

How tangible will request to pay become across Europe in the coming year and what difference can a 4-corner model make? Erwin Kulk, Head of Service Development and Management at EBA CLEARING, gives answers to these questions and an outlook on drivers for request to pay adoption and the Company’s R2P Service.

12 October 2021

News/Sibos

EBA Clearing, Swift and TCH test instant cross-border payments

Banks from both sides of the Atlantic have successfully exchanged real-time cross-border payment messages as part of a proof-of-concept trial conducted with Swift, EBA Clearing and The Clearing House.

11 October 2021

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Request to pay, digital currencies and the need to prioritise wisely

Thomas Egner, Secretary General of the Euro Banking Association, explains during Sibos 2021 why progress on request to pay will depend on more industry coordination and gives an overview of the Association’s work on digital currencies.

11 October 2021

Company announcement/payments

Request to Pay: Survey confirms high demand

Europe's economy is almost unanimous in welcoming the launch of Request to Pay and sees a wide range of uses of the pan-European standard for electronic payment requirements.

09 August 2021

Company announcement/people

Michele Olin appointed as EBA Clearing chairperson

Michele Olin (Allied Irish Banks) was appointed as EBA CLEARING Chairperson by the Company’s Shareholders on 25 June 2021 for a three-year term of office.

01 July 2021

News/payments

EBAday 2021: Payments transformation and the road to success

Finextra Research and the Euro Banking Association today welcomed the global banking community to EBAday 2021. Running from 28-30 June, the virtual conference is being led by some of the most influential leaders and practitioners in the financial services sector, and dives into the current and future trends of the European and international payments landscape – as well as the latest developments across digital banking, liquidity management, open banking, real-time payments, and more.

28 June 2021

Company announcement/security

EBA Clearing and Iberpay launch interoperable Sepa Request-to-Pay services

EBA CLEARING and IBERPAY announced today that they have delivered two interoperable services to process messages and provide functionalities complying with the new SEPA Request-to-Pay Scheme (SRTP) created by the European Payments Council (EPC).

15 June 2021