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News/Sepa
MasterCard's long-running legal challenge against the European Commission's 2007 decision on the company's cross-border consumer interchange fees has been aired at the EU General Law Cout in Luxembourg, with the card scheme declaring that "the future direction of European payments is stake".
11 July 2011
Financial information network Swift is marketing a directory and software tool designed to help corporates validate and set-up Iban account codes for customer and supplier payments in time for the Sepa deadline.
08 July 2011
Finextra TV/Sepa
Kirstine Nilsson, SEPA & PSD Coordinator, Swedbank looks at what role innovation will play in the next stage of the Sepa journey.
22 June 2011
Michael Thom, retail issues, consumer policy and payment systems, European Commission and Wiebe Ruttenberg, head of market infrastructure division, European Central Bank comment on the next steps for Sepa in this special mini-webcast.
21 June 2011
Missed EBADay this year, or just want to re-live it? Watch the highlights video now.
20 June 2011
An upbeat EBAday conference in Madrid this week saw hundreds of payments professionals from banks across Europe finally prepare to put the Sepa saga to bed and look forward to new opportunities and challenges.
16 June 2011
EBA Clearing has outlined plans to launch a pan-European electronic payments service for online shopping, enabling buyers and sellers to complete transactions through their e-banking portals.
15 June 2011
A group of 24 European banks planning to establish a rival card network to Visa and MasterCard have called on the European Commission to provide clarification over the level of multilateral interchange fees for the Single Euro Payments Area.
The Euro banking Association and Finextra are preparing for a record turn-out at EBAday 2011, Europe's pre-eminent annual payments event, with a sold-out exhibition floor and conference agenda featuring more than 50 of Europe's leading banks, market operators and industry utilities.
10 June 2011
Prior to EBADay 2011, RBS' Simon Newstead talks about Sepa migration and the proposed end-dates.
07 June 2011
To cut fraud, cards issued in the single euro payments area (Sepa) should only use chips, not mag-stripes, says the European Central Bank (ECB).
13 May 2011
Banking representative body the European Payments Council (EPC) has released a set of guidelines for mobile contactless transactions in the Single Euro Payments Area (Sepa).
05 May 2011
The European Central Bank has called on Brussels to impose concrete end-dates for the imposition of new payments instruments under the Single Euro Payments Area (Sepa) project.
08 April 2011
The European Payments Council has warned the European Commission not to abuse its executive powers and take on a standards-setting role in the push to create a Single Euro Payments Area (Sepa), arguing that banks must retain their primacy in the development of payment systems.
14 March 2011
The French Banking Federation has hit out at recently proposed EC Sepa migration regulations - arguing that they handicap implementation and undermine the interbank system - and called for an interchange mechanism for the direct debit instrument.
20 January 2011
The European Commission has finally set out its proposals for EU-wide end-dates for the migration of national credit transfers and direct debits to Single Euro Payments Area (Sepa) instruments.
16 December 2010
The European Central Bank's Gertrude Tumpel-Gugerell has set out a list of New Year Resolutions for the EU payments industry, including the imposition of a Sepa migration end-date and the creation of a third card payment scheme to compete with Visa and MasterCard.
29 November 2010
The EC will "effectively derail the entire Sepa project" if upcoming regulatory intervention on migration end dates does not include deadlines for phasing out national schemes, says the European Payments Council.
01 November 2010
A project run by central banks of the 15-member Southern African Development Community aims to complete a pilot project harmonising the payment infrastructures of the four Rand Monetary Area countries within two years.
26 October 2010
The Irish banking community is to move its domestic payments processing to the Euro Banking Association's Step2 platform as part of the nation's preparations for the advent of a Single Euro Payments Area (Sepa).
25 October 2010
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