If you have trouble reading this e-mail or wish to go directly to the web version, click here. June 2018
The second quarter of 2018 went very well for the SEPA Instant Credit Transfer (SCT Inst) scheme and we now count 1070 participating Payment Service Providers (PSPs) from fifteen countries. Also, it has been one year that we have launched our Rep(l)ay monthly digest and we would like to ask you to fill out a survey to help us identify any potential areas of improvement! Wishing you a pleasant reading!
Insight June 22, 2018 Improving the efficiency of the handling of cash: ‘Recirculation Paper’

We have issued a “Recirculation paper” in order to contribute to the improvement of the efficiency of handling cash. Learn more in this interview with Leonor Machado, Chair of the EPC’s Cash Efficiency Working Group.


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Leonor Machado

Chair of Cash Efficiency Working Group


Insight June 06, 2018 SEPA Instant Credit Transfer adoption: an overview of ABN AMRO

ABN AMRO, one of the largest banks in the Netherlands, was an early adopter of the SEPA Instant Credit Transfer (SCT Inst) scheme. We interviewed Sandra Peute, about the scheme’s rollout, its challenges, and the future of instant payments.


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Sandra Peute

Business Developer for SEPA Payments at ABN AMRO

News July 02, 2018 Survey on Rep(l)ay monthly digest

Launched in June 2017, the EPC monthly digest called Rep(l)ay provides you with a selection of the latest articles, infographics and documents published on our website. Therefore, your feedback is very helpful to us for designing the content of information we deliver to you:


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News June 07, 2018 Results of the EPC Poll: “when no check-out at physical merchants’ will become a common practice”

We were curious to know what professionals working in the payments industry think when it comes to the future of retail checkout. We ran over the last two months a poll on forecasting when no check-out at physical merchants’ would become a common practice in Europe.


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News May 30, 2018 European Payments Council publishes position paper on Brexit and UK PSPs’ participation in SEPA schemes

On the occasion of the start of the second phase of the Brexit negotiations, we stated our current position in the face of possible post-Brexit scenarios and their impact on the Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA) schemes.


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Technical documents Minutes of the thirteenth meeting of the ad-hoc multi-stakeholder group on mobile contactless SEPA card payments (May 2018)​ June 29, 2018 SEPA Credit Transfer Scheme Interbank Implementation Guidelines 2017 version 2.1​ June 28, 2018 2017 SEPA Credit Transfer rulebook version 1.2​ June 28, 2018 “Recirculation paper”: improving the efficiency of the handling of cash​ June 22, 2018 API Evaluation Group: Summary of the seventh meeting (23 April 2018)​ June 11, 2018 API Evaluation Group: Agenda of the eighth meeting (14 May 2018) June 11, 2018 Minutes of the 4th meeting of EPC Multi-Stakeholder Group on EIPP (EIPP MSG)​ June 08, 2018 Agenda of the 5th meeting of EPC Multi-Stakeholder Group on EIPP (EIPP MSG)​ June 08, 2018

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Infographic June 22, 2018 Infographic: Improving the efficiency of the handling cash: Recirculation



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