EBA Clearing - News, Articles & Research

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

Finextra TV/payments

Retail Payments Strategy & boosting Instant Payments across Europe

Hays Littlejohn, CEO of EBA CLEARING, speaks in the lead up to EBAday 2021 to FinextraTV about European Retail Payments Strategy. We hear what this means for the role of EBA CLEARING, the increased activity in 2021 to boost instant payments across Europe, what RT1 has in the pipeline to help its participants and what kind of new instant payment and request to pay opportunities we can expect PSPs to embrace.

11 June 2021

Finextra TV/payments

Succeeding Digitally in the World of Open Banking

In the lead-up to EBAday 2021, Vincent Brennan, Payments and Operational Resilience Advisor, Bank of Ireland, and Daniel Szmukler, Director, Euro Banking Association, speak about their recent thought leadership paper in the open banking space. We learn how banks need to strategically implement digital operating models to succeed in the digital and open banking world, the ways in which digital banks are focused on their customers, and how the paper ties in with other research informed by the EBA’s Open Banking Working Group.

07 June 2021

News/payments

EBAday 2021: Request-to-Pay most useful in Customer-to-Merchant payments

Having been touted as the ‘missing piece of the instant payment puzzle,’ many are keenly interested in the potential Request-to-Pay holds for streamlining payments, improving customer experience, and optimising liquidity through better cash management and visibility.

25 May 2021

Company announcement/payments

New RT1 specifications for TIPS to simplify SCT Inst traffic management

Enhanced RT1 Instructing Party Functionality for TIPS will allow RT1 Participants all across Europe to manage their SCT Inst traffic and liquidity easily from a single access point.

23 April 2021

Company announcement/payments

EBA Clearing's RT1 reaches critical mass of Belgian PSPs for instant payments

EBA CLEARING announced today that its RT1 platform has reached critical mass in Belgium for instant payments.

11 February 2021

News/regulation

Konsentus acquires Open Banking Europe

Konsentus has acquired Open Banking Europe, the operator of a centralised PSD2 directory supporting bank data sharing initiatives, from EBA Clearing subsidiary Preta.

18 January 2021

News/payments

EBAday 2020: Finding the killer app for Request to Pay

Request to Pay is in danger of being an answer without a question, unless the banking and payments ecosystem can come together with the corporate world to identify a killer use case that would encourage mass adoption.

26 November 2020

Company announcement/payments

EBA and McKinsey issue joint white paper on future of banks in payments

The Euro Banking Association (EBA) and McKinsey & Company published a joint white paper on the future of banks in payments today at EBAday 2020.

25 November 2020

Finextra TV/payments

Gearing up for EBAday 2020 - A look behind the scenes

Daniel Szmukler, EBA Director, walks us through the thinking behind EBAday 2020 from behind the curtain of the show and lifts the lid on what can we expect from this year‘s diverse agenda bursting with a range of new and pressing topics for the European payments industry.

13 November 2020

News/payments

EBAday 2020: payments innovation on fire

Visa recently launched its Tap to Phone technology, enabling Android handsets to accept NFC payments via an app which will allow users to accept contactless payments within minutes of download. This is now live in parts of Europe, the Middle East, Africa, APAC and Latin America with the US to follow in 2021.

06 November 2020

Company announcement/payments

SIA enables Request to Pay for Banca Sella

SIA, a leading European hi-tech company in payment services and infrastructures controlled by CDP Equity, will enable banks, corporates, public administration bodies and fintechs for the new service “Request to Pay” (R2P) on EBA Clearing’s technology infrastructure, compliant with the European Payments Council (EPC) scheme.

02 November 2020