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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

News/retail

EBAday 2020: Are banks failing customers?

The question of whether banks are failing to provide the services customers expect was the subject of a heated panel debate during a lunchtime roundtable on Day Two of EBAday.

26 November 2020

News/payments

EBAday 2020: It’s do-or-die time for real-time payments

Launching into the session ‘Reaping the potential of real-time payments’, Dean Wallace, director of real-time payments, digital and request to pay, ACI Worldwide argues that the expectations of the market will only continue to evolve, pressuring financial institutions to finalise their real-time payments (RTP) strategy.

25 November 2020

News/payments

Swift Community Update: The role of market infrastructures in Europe

The role of market infrastructures (MIs) in Europe came under scrutiny to begin day two of Swift's Community Update - Focus on Europe live virtual event.

18 November 2020

News/payments

ECB blames third-party network device for Target2 collapse

The European Central bank has blamed a software defect at a third party technology provider for an outage that downed the Target2 settlement system for almost 11 hours on Friday.

28 October 2020

News/payments

Target2 experiences total system failure, Sepa payments delayed

A complete failure of all payment transactions within the Target2 system was experienced for several hours on Friday, with backup systems and contingency modules also initially unable to function.

26 October 2020

News/payments

TBI Bank CEO: BaaS is the cherry on top of digital banking

Bulgarian ‘phygital’ challenger TBI Bank recently became the first financial institution in Southeast Europe to partner with the Bank of Lithuania to launch Sepa instant payments.

04 February 2020

News/payments

P27 Momentum: Key milestones for stakeholders in 2020 and beyond

Henry Ohlsson, deputy governor, Riksbank kept Nordic payments professionals entertained during NextGen Nordics: P27 Momentum during his session on the role of the central bank in a changing environment.

26 November 2019

News/payments

BNY Mellon director: US has more B2B open banking activity than Eurozone

Laura McGortey, director of strategic partnership solutions at BNY Mellon, claims that there is more open banking activity in the US B2B payments space in comparison to the Eurozone, on the final day of AFP 2019 in Boston.

23 October 2019

News/payments

How to manage vanilla treasury payments against the backdrop of regulation

Finextra spoke to ING’s head of transaction services Americas Tibor Bartels at AFP 2019 about his experience working with both US and European treasurers and chief financial officers and whether regulation has helped with cash management or has been a hindrance.

21 October 2019

News/regulation

Sibos 2019: How compliance is keeping pace with real-time cross-border payments

At Sibos 2019, industry leaders in the compliance space will be exploring how best to prepare for the challenges that are emerging with real-time cross-border payments, which are inherently more challenging than domestic payments because they require bridging the closed loops of multiple currency systems.

23 September 2019

News/Sepa

What’s next after the SCA deadline?

Following the Strong Customer Authentication (SCA) deadline passing on Saturday, Dr Ruth Wandhöfer, honorary professor at the London Institute of Banking & Finance and board member at LSEG, took to the stage at the World Conference of Banking Institutes to discuss the changing pace of the payments industry and the role of the banking sector in this age of disruption.

17 September 2019

News/Sepa

Payment firms raise fears over EU security rules

A lack of preparedness for the EU's new regulations on authentication could cost Europe's online economy more than €50bn according to a number of payment processors and e-commerce merchants.

04 June 2019

News/payments

JP Morgan launches Sepa instant payments in Europe

US banking giant JP Morgan is boosting its real-time payments offering by launching Sepa Instant in Europe.

10 April 2019

News/payments

Deutsche Bank releases API interface for instant payments in SAP ERP software

Deutsche Bank has joined forces with software firm Serrala to launch an API interface for Sepa instant payments for corporates using SAP enterprise resource planning software, taking a step towards real-time treasury.

05 April 2019

News/Sepa

Tackling digital transformation in Nordic financial services

SWIFT's Business Forum Nordics event examined how the financial services community in the region can deliver technological innovation while managing emerging risk factors.

04 April 2019

News/Sepa

Swift Business Forum Nordics 2019 - live blog

Welcome to Finextra's coverage of the Swift Business Forum Nordics 2019, live from Copenhagen. This event has a focus on accelerating digital transformation, and will look at how the financial community in the region is harnessing technological change to deliver a digital customer experience.

28 March 2019

News/Sepa

41% of banks missed PSD2 deadline says survey

Close to half of banks (41%) failed to meet a recent deadline for the Payment Services Directive (PSD2) to provide a testing environment or 'sandbox' for any third party service providers (TPPs).

21 March 2019

News/Sepa

Sepa instant payments goes live

Nearly 600 payment service providers (PSPs) from eight countries are onboard for today's launch of the Sepa Instant Credit Transfer (SCT Inst) scheme, bringing real-time money transfers to much of Europe.

21 November 2017

News/Sepa

EPC gears up for pan-European instant payments

A new voluntary pan-European instant credit transfer scheme that will bring real-time money transfers across the Single Euro Payments Area (Sepa) is on course to go live in November, with five countries onboard from the off.

14 July 2017