If you have trouble reading this e-mail or wish to go directly to the web version, click here. December 2018
As 2018 draws closer to an end, the time has come to reflect and look ahead. It has been a busy and rewarding year: almost 50% of European PSPs have joined the SEPA Instant Credit Transfer scheme and we remain convinced that market forces will help to reach a critical mass by late 2020! However, next year will also bring some exciting news: as of 1 March 2019, the geographical scope of the SEPA schemes will grow by 2 countries to a total of 36 countries! Also, another major topic for the coming year will be the roll out of the SEPA Proxy Lookup scheme and service: keep an eye out for the updates! We wish you a Merry Christmas and a marvellous year 2019!

Highlight December 13, 2018 Javier Santamaría is re-elected as Chair of the European Payments Council for a two-year mandate

The General Assembly of the EPC, a representative body of European payment service providers, has re-elected Javier Santamaría as its Chair and Narinda You as its Vice-Chair. Their mandates take effect immediately and will run for the next two years – a period in which challenging changes are expected in the payments industry. Check out our press release on our website:


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Insight December 4, 2018 All you need to know about the new features of the four EPC SEPA scheme rulebooks

What are the changes affecting the SCT, SCT Inst and SDD schemes as included in the 2019 EPC SEPA scheme rulebooks? You can find an answer to this and other questions in our interview with Jean-Yves Jacquelin:


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Jean-Yves Jacquelin

Chair of the EPC Scheme Evolution and Maintenance Working Group

News December 14, 2018 Results of the EPC poll on biometric authentication technology adoption for payments in the coming 5 years

The EPC invited professionals working in the payments industry to share their views on the future of biometric authentication. It held over the last two months a poll on forecasting which of the suggested technologies would become a common practice in near future. You can find more about the results on our website:


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News December 06, 2018 Call for independent candidates for the Scheme Management Board (SMB)

The minutes of the sixth and seventh meetings of the Mobile Proxy Forum’s (MPF) Steering Committee are now available.


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Technical documents SEPA Direct Debit Core and SEPA Direct Debit Business to Business Interbank/ Customer-to-Bank/ E-Mandate Service Implementation Guidelines December 17, 2018 Application Programming Interface Evaluation Group (API EG): Summary of the 19th and 20th meetings, eIDAS and TPP Identification (PSD2), Recommended Functionalities (PSD2/RTS) December 3, 2018

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Merry Christmas and Happy New Year 2019 from the EPC team!



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