Latest Sepa News: Finextra Research

EBA Clearing launches Sepa-wide Verification of Payee

EBA Clearing has launched a Sepa-wide Verification of Payee (VOP) service to help PSPs in Europe meet Instant Payment Regulation requirements.

12 December 2024

News/payments

European mobile payment operators enable interoperability

Bank-backed mobile payment operators from Italy, Spain and Portugal have pioneered interoperable money transfers, making it possible for users to conduct instant cross-border P2P transactions.

14 November 2024

News/payments

EBAday 2024: Prioritising innovation in embedded finance

At EBAday 2024 in Lisbon, the second half of day two kicked off with a riveting discussion on open banking and embedded finance.

20 June 2024

News/payments

EBAday 2024: Possibilities and boundaries of the OCT Inst scheme

Moderating the last panel of the first day of EBAday, Rita Camporeale, vice chair of the European Payments Council led a conversation on the OCT Inst scheme with Daniele Astarita, principal solution consultant of real time payments at ACI Worldwide; Damien Godderis, head of payments industry engagement - payments & receivables - cash management at BNP Paribas; Xavier Herrero, manager operations groups at CaixaBank; and Michael Knetsch, tribe lead instant payments, cash management at Deutsche Bank.

19 June 2024

News/payments

EBAday 2024: Turning European dialogue into solutions for the new payments era

Wolfgang Ehrmann, chairman of the board at Euro Banking Association (EBA) kicked off the first day of the 19th EBAday with a speech welcoming all delegates.

18 June 2024

News/payments

Iberpay and Santander become first particpants in EPC's OCT Inst scheme

Spain's Iberpay and Santander have signed up as the first participants in the European Payment Council's new OCT Inst scheme for faster international account-to-account payments.

17 May 2024

News/payments

EBA Clearing carries out pan-European request to pay PoC

EBA Clearing says its request to pay service is ready for commercial use cases after the completion of a pan-European proof-of-concept involving eight PSPs.

08 May 2024

News/payments

Tide partners with Adyen in German market

Tide has announced that it will offer business accounts in Germany, marking the beginning of the company's expansion into Europe.

02 May 2024

News/regulation

EBA Clearing preps Verification of Payee

EBA Clearing will roll out a pan-European Verification of Payee feature by the end of the year.

09 April 2024

News/payments

EU banks worried about 'unrealistic' instant payment deadlines

A third of EU banks do not currently offer an instant payments service and the majority have been discouraged by the January 2025 deadline, according to recently published research.

28 March 2024

News/regulation

EU adopts instant payments rules

The European Council has adopted a regulation that will make instant payments fully available in euro to consumers and businesses in the EU and in EEA countries.

26 February 2024

News/payments

MEPs nod through ten second instant transfer rules

The European Parliament has adopted new rules to ensure transferred funds arrive within ten seconds into the bank accounts of retail customers and businesses across the EU.

08 February 2024

News/payments

TrueLayer first to participate in SEPA Payment Account Access Scheme

Open banking payments company TrueLayer was authorised to be the first to take part in the SEPA Payment Account Access Scheme (SPAA).

12 January 2024

News/payments

EU agrees game-changing deal for instant payments

The European Council and European Parliament have struck a provisional agreement on the mandatory provision of instant credit transfers in euros and access to central bank payment rails by non-bank e-money institutions and stablecoin issuers.

08 November 2023

News/payments

Sepa payment schemes ISO 20022 migration delayed

The European Payments Council has postponed the migration of Sepa payment schemes to the 2019 version of ISO 20022 by four months, to March, after concluding that "at least two large Sepa countries" couldn't be guaranteed to make the original November deadline.

25 October 2023

News/payments

NextGen Nordics: Cross border payments are a political weapon

At NextGen Nordics in Stockholm this week, Finextra’s senior reporter Paige McNamee was joined by Patrik Havander, head of B2B connect/cross border money movement Europe, Visa; Daragh Kirby, head of sales & marketing, Intercope; Katja Lehr, managing director, EMEA payments and commerce solutions, JP Morgan Chase; and Dr Hubertus von Poser, member of the management board, PPI.

28 April 2023

News/payments

Numeral launches in the UK to help fintechs access EU markets

Paris-based banking aggregation and payment automation platform Numeral has launched in the UK to help fintechs address the EU market by accessing Sepa and fighting IBAN discrimination.

13 March 2023

News/payments

NextGen Nordics 2023: Back and better than ever

Finextra will be back in Stockholm to bring the new world of Nordic banking to life for the NextGen Nordics 2023 conference on the 25th of April.

03 February 2023

News/retail

Irish postal service seeks banking platform services provider

Irish postal services provider An Post is on the hunt for a banking platform services provider for its current account.

17 March 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