If you have trouble reading this e-mail or wish to go directly to the web version, click here. March 2020
Already 2158 payment service providers (PSPs) have as of March 2020 joined the SEPA Instant Credit Transfer (SCT Inst) scheme, i.e. over 53% of European PSPs! Also, we have launched a 3-month public consultation on possible modifications to the EPC SEPA payment schemes.
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In spite of these exceptional circumstances, we remain fully operational by phone (+32 2 733 35 33) and by e-mail (secretariat@epc-cep.eu) to help and address any question from or handle any matter raised by the EPC SEPA payment scheme participants, scheme applicants and payment end-users about the EPC SEPA payment scheme schemes, e.g. scheme adherence, complaint handling, Major Incident Reporting and any other SEPA payment-related matter. We hope that yourself, your family and your colleagues are safe and doing well.




Highlight New poll on cash usage by 2025

In terms of the number of transactions, 78.8% of purchases at the POS were paid using cash in 2016 in the overall euro area. Give your view in our poll on how it will change by 2025:


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Insight March 18, 2020 Implementation of PSD2: a viewpoint from the EBA, the European Banking Authority

We close our series of articles on the implementation of the revised Payment Services Directive (PSD2) with the interview of Dr Dirk Haubrich, Head of Conduct, Payments and Consumers at the EBA.


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Dirk Haubrich

Head of Conduct, Payments and Consumers at the European Banking Authority (EBA)



News March 12, 2020 The EPC launches the public consultation on the 2020 change requests for the SEPA Credit Transfer and SEPA Direct Debit Scheme Rulebooks

We launched the EPC SEPA payment scheme rulebooks’ public consultation for 3 months. All payment service providers, end users and technical players can participate in it:


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News March 9, 2020 New version of the guidelines on cryptographic algorithms usage and key management

Are you wishing to learn more about the field of cryptographic algorithms and related key management issues? Check out our website.


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News March 5, 2020 Publication of the updated 2019 EPC SEPA payment scheme rulebooks

Find out more about the updated 2019 EPC SEPA payment scheme rulebooks: no operational or business impact.


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News March 5, 2020 Publication of the updated SEPA Proxy Lookup scheme rulebook

Find out more about the newly published version 2.0 of the SEPA Proxy Lookup (SPL) scheme rulebook.


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Technical documents Guidelines on cryptographic algorithms usage and key management March 9, 2020 SEPA Proxy lookup scheme: rulebook version 2.0, Scheme Adherence Pack, Template to Propose a Change to the SEPA Proxy Lookup (SPL) Scheme Rulebook version 2.0 Rulebooks: public consultation on the 2020 change requests and updated 2019 EPC SEPA payment scheme rulebooks SEPA Payment Scheme Management Rules March 5, 2020

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