If you have trouble reading this e-mail or wish to go directly to the web version, click here. June 2019
2089 European PSPs have already joined the Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA) Instant Credit Transfer (SCT Inst) scheme which includes the great majority of the German (87%), Austrian (87%) and Spanish (73%) PSPs.
Additionally, after having held a three - month public consultation, we have published this month the final version of the white paper on non-Near Field Communication (NFC) based Mobile SEPA Card Proximity Payments (MCPPs).
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Insight June 19, 2019 Public consultation: draft Mobile Initiated SEPA Credit Transfer Interoperability Implementation Guidelines (including SCT Inst)

The draft MSCT Interoperability Implementation Guidelines (IIGs) (including SCT Inst) were published at the end of May for a three-month public consultation. We interviewed Dag-Inge Flatraaker, the co-chair of the group, to shed some light on the newly published draft guidelines.


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Dag-Inge Flatraaker

General manager of Group Payments Infrastructure at DNB Bank
Insight June 5, 2019 MADRE: a Banque de France blockchain project

In 2017, Banque de France launched MADRE, a project using blockchain to improve the interbank system to enable the exchange of SEPA creditor identifiers between French SEPA Direct Debit (SDD) scheme participants.


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Stéphane Kunesch

Deputy Head of the Banking Services at Banque de France since 2013

News June 7, 2019 White Paper: Non-NFC based Mobile SEPA Card Proximity Payments

In November 2018, the multi-stakeholder group on mobile contactless SEPA card payments (MSG MCP), facilitated by the EPC, has developed a white paper to provide a high level overview of non-NFC based MCPPs, utilising SEPA cards as the underlying payment instrument. Beginning of June, we have published its final version.


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Technical documents EPC Multi-Stakeholder Group on EIPP (EIPP MSG): Agendas and Minutes of the 4th and 5th meetings June, 2019 Multi-stakeholder group on mobile contactless SEPA card payments (MSG MCP): White paper non-NFC based Mobile SEPA Card Proximity Payments June 7, 2019 EPC Scheme End-User Forum (March 2019): Agenda and minutes of the 8th meeting June 4, 2019 EPC Scheme Technical Forum (March 2019): Agenda and minutes of the 10th meeting June 4, 2019

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