If you have trouble reading this e-mail or wish to go directly to the web version, click here. September 2018
A total of 1098 (26%) of European Payment Service Providers (PSPs) have now registered for the SEPA Instant Credit Transfer Scheme. Furthermore, we have published new guidance documents on Reason Codes for SCT, SCT Inst and SDD R-transactions as well as SCT-SCT Inst and SDD Core-SDD B2B clarification papers. Wishing you a pleasant reading!

Highlight September 18, 2018 New guidance documents on Reason Codes for SCT, SCT Inst and SDD R-transactions

We have released the first version of guidance documents on Reason Codes for Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA) Credit Transfer (SCT) and SEPA Instant Credit Transfer (SCT Inst) R-transactions, and a new version of the guidance document on Reason Codes for SEPA Direct Debit (SDD) R-transactions.


Link to SCT R-transactions

Link to SCT Inst R-transactions

Link to SDD R-transactions



Highlight September 18, 2018 SCT-SCT Inst and SDD Core-SDD B2B clarification papers

The papers address operational aspects related to the SCT, SCT Inst, SDD Core and SDD B2B rulebooks and seek to ensure consistent implementation of the four SEPA scheme rulebooks by payment service providers participating in the schemes:


Link to SCT-SCT Inst clarification papers

Link to SDD Core-SDD B2B clarification papers


Insight September 14, 2018 Importance of teamwork: Spanish banks lead real-time payments implementation

We interviewed José Luis Langa, deputy managing director of Iberpay, to learn more about the challenges faced by an early technical partner in the pan-European real-time SCT Inst scheme.


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José Luis Langa


Deputy managing director of Iberpay



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Technical documents Agenda and minutes of the 9th meeting of the EPC Scheme Technical Forum (August 2018) September 20, 2018 Agenda and minutes of the 7th meeting of the EPC Scheme End-User Forum (August 2018) September 20, 2018 Membership list of the EPC Scheme End-User Forum for the period 2017-2019 September 20, 2018 | Update version : 1.2 Guidance on reason codes for SEPA Direct Debit R-transactions September 18, 2018 Guidance on reason codes for SEPA Credit Transfer R-transactions September 18, 2018 Guidance on reason codes for SEPA Instant Credit Transfer R-transactions September 18, 2018 Guidelines for the appearance of mandates in the SEPA Direct Debit schemes September 18, 2018 Creditor Identifier Overview September 18, 2018 Clarification paper on SEPA Direct Debit Core and SEPA Direct Debit Business-to-Business rulebooks September 18, 2018 | Update version : 1.1 Clarification paper on SEPA Credit Transfer and SEPA Instant Credit Transfer rulebooks September 18, 2018 | Update version : 1.2 Agenda of the 7th meeting of EPC Multi-Stakeholder Group on E-invoicing Presentation and Payment (EIPP MSG) September 17, 2018 Minutes of the 6th meeting of EPC Multi-Stakeholder Group on EIPP (EIPP MSG) September 17, 2018 API Evaluation Group: Agenda 17th meeting (3 September 2018) September 13, 2018 API Evaluation Group: Agenda 13th meeting (30 July 2018) September 13, 2018 API Evaluation Group: Summary of the 10th Meeting (25 June 2018) September 13, 2018 API Evaluation Group: Membership list September 04, 2018 Terms of Reference of the Application Programming Interface Evaluation Group (API EG) September 04, 2018


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