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Request to pay models explained

A recent Finextra article examines the key elements in the UK's Open Banking approach to request to pay and the pan-Europan 4-corner model approach are and why the two approaches are different.

Timely start of test phase for pan-European request to pay infrastructure service

EBA CLEARING today announced the timely start of the testing phase for its pan-European request to pay infrastructure (R2P) service, which is scheduled to go live in November 2020 in line with the launch of the SEPA Request to Pay Scheme by the European Payments Council (EPC).

EBA CLEARING’s RT1 reaches critical mass in France

EBA CLEARING announced today that its RT1 platform has made considerable progress in building up pan-European instant payment reach across the French retail payments market.

EBA CLEARING maintains high user satisfaction rate

In the annual quality survey, EBA CLEARING received an average user satisfaction rate of 4.0 (out of 5).

EBA CLEARING delivers specifications for a pan-European request to pay infrastructure solution

The development work for EBA CLEARING’s R2P solution is on track for a scheduled go-live in November 2020.

Transaction volume high for RT1

Instant payment system RT1 processed over 3 million transactions in the week between 28 October and 3 November

SWIFT and EBA CLEARING start development phase of EURO1 migration to ISO 20022

The collaboration builds on a 20-year partnership and advances a broader future positioning programme that began last year.

EBA CLEARING kicks off development of pan-European request to pay infrastructure solution with 26 PSPs

The delivery of the solution is supported and funded by 26 financial institutions from 11 countries for a go-live in 2020.

R2P: The missing piece of the puzzle

A white paper

EBA CLEARING Annual Report 2018 now available

24 PSPs support delivery of pan-European Request to Pay infrastructure solution by EBA CLEARING

Financial institutions from 11 countries have responded to a call for contributing to the development of this important enabler of instant payments

EBA CLEARING Board elections

At the Annual Meeting 2019, the EBA CLEARING Shareholders re(elected) members of the Board.

EBA CLEARING’s RT1 platform builds up nearly full instant payment coverage in Finland

Six major players in the Finnish retail payments market are now connected to the pan-European instant payment system of EBA CLEARING

EBA CLEARING’s real-time payment system RT1 reaches critical mass in Germany

RT1 provides instant payment coverage to 1,700+ PSPs in Germany via seven service participants

Very positive results in annual quality survey

An average user satisfaction rate of 4.0 (out of 5) and additional scores confirming a strong customer relationship: these are the very positive key results of EBA CLEARING’s quality survey 2018.

New all-time daily average records for STEP2 SCT, RT1 and SCC in December 2018

STEP2 SCT and STEP2 Card Clearing both saw new all-time daily average volume records with 21.1 million and 11 million payment transactions processed respectively. RT1 also reached a new daily average volume in December 2018 with 88 thousand transactions processed. 

Instant payment system RT1 reaches new milestone

RT1 passed the 10-million-transaction mark on 3 January 2019.

EBA CLEARING kicks off task force to work on a pan-European Request to Pay solution

The task force will be working on a blueprint setting forth suitable solution(s)

EBA CLEARING’s real-time payment system RT1 passes 5-million-transaction mark

11 months after go-live, the pan-European instant payment platform reaches PSPs in 12 countries, processing over 70,000 real-time payments in euro per day.

EBA CLEARING and SWIFT kick off EURO1 ISO 20022 migration for November 2021

EBA CLEARING and SWIFT announced today the start of a work programme to migrate the large-value payment system (LVPS) EURO1 to the ISO 20022 standard.

EBA CLEARING’s instant payment system RT1 expands reach to over 1,000 payment service providers

EBA CLEARING announced today that its pan-European instant payment system RT1 successfully connected six new participants yesterday. German savings bank sector connected to RT1 via LBBW and Helaba.

EBA CLEARINGs Echtzeitzahlungssystem RT1 weitet Reichweite auf mehr als 1.000 Zahlungsanbieter aus

EBA CLEARING gab heute bekannt, dass das Echtzeitzahlungssystem RT1 des Unternehmens gestern erfolgreich sechs neue Teilnehmer angeschlossen hat. Der deutsche Sparkassensektor schloss sich über LBBW und Helaba an RT1 an.

EBA CLEARING charts course for EURO1 future with strong focus on cross-service alignment

EBA CLEARING announced at the EBAday conference in Munich today that it is aiming to optimally support the users of its different services in their integration of management and monitoring tasks as the industry is preparing for the migration of large-value payment systems, such as TARGET2 or EURO1, to ISO 20022 standards.

Petia Niederländer appointed EBA CLEARING chair

EBA CLEARING Chairman Erkki Poutiainen (Nordea) hands over to Petia Niederländer (ERSTE Group Bank), who was appointed as his successor by the Company’s Shareholders Meeting 2018 today.

EBAday 2018: "RT1 - Ready for ramp-up"

Joint this EBA CLEARING special interest session on 12 June to learn more about RT1

Instant payment system RT1 hits 1-million-transaction mark

RT1 has processed EUR 635 million since its launch on 21 November 2017

New all-time peak for STEP2 platform

EBA CLEARING’s STEP2 platform has seen a new all-time peak: 156 million transactions were settled on 3 April 2018. On the same day, the STEP2 SCT Service saw a new volume record with a total of 41.7 million transactions settled, and the STEP2 SDD B2B Service witnessed a new volume peak with over 1 million transactions settled.

New volume record for STEP2 CC

The STEP2 Card Clearing Service has seen a new volume record with a total of 23.5 million payments settled on 3 April 2018.

EBA CLEARING’s instant payment system RT1 hits 500,000-transaction mark

Three months after go-live, the pan-European platform handles more than 10,000 real-time payments in euro per day.

New STEP2 SDD Core peak record

A total of 118.8 million SEPA Core Direct Debits settled on 2 January 2018.

Successful go-live for EBA CLEARING’s instant payment system RT1

EBA CLEARING today confirmed that instant payment system RT1 went live this morning. 17 banks from eight countries connected to RT1 today, extending SCT Inst reach to 500+ PSPs across SEPA.

List of RT1 Participants and SCT Inst Addressable PSPs available

See all participating banks and download a list of addressable PSPs

IBERPAY ready to connect Spanish banks to EBA CLEARING’s RT1 system for SCT Inst processing

IBERPAY and EBA CLEARING announced today that the Spanish retail payment system is ready to provide Europe-wide instant payment connectivity to Spanish banks with the support of IBERPAY’s CICLOM platform and EBA CLEARING’s RT1 system.

SWIFTNet Instant to provide access to EBA CLEARING's RT1 system

RT1 users will be able to access the platform via SWIFTNet Instant in November 2018.

Banks from nine countries to join RT1 for go-live

This first group of RT1 users is currently completing the required testing for connecting to the platform.

All-time peak for STEP2

EBA CLEARING's STEP2 platform has seen a new all-time peak: Over 155 million transactions were settled on 2nd October 2017. STEP2 SDD Core also reached a new individual peak record with a total of 107.3 million SEPA Core Direct Debits settled on the same day.

Instant Payments: accordo tra ICBPI ed EBA CLEARING

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UniCredit prepares for multinational roll-out of instant payments

UniCredit and EBA CLEARING today announced that UniCredit has started testing with RT1, EBA CLEARING’s pan-European, real-time payment platform.

EBA CLEARING launches programme on future positioning of its high-value payment system EURO1

The pan-European infrastructure provider will work with users on the evolution of its flagship service in the face of ongoing and emerging market developments

EBA CLEARING publishes white paper on how to ensure smooth take-off for euro instant payments

The paper presents key factors for a successful ramp-up of real-time payments, such as payment certainty and reach, and explains how these can be supported at an infrastructure level.

STEP2 platform has seen a new all-time peak

EBA CLEARING’s STEP2 platform has seen a new all-time peak: nearly 153 million transactions were settled on 2nd May 2017. STEP2 SCT has seen a new volume record with a total of 32.75 million payments settled on 2nd May 2017, same as STEP2 CC with a total of 18.1 million and SDD B2B with 884,288 transactions settled on the same day.

New volume record for STEP2 CC

STEP2 CC has seen a new volume record with a total of 18,4 million card payments settled on 18th April 2017.

Successful first testing results for for the first pan-European instant payment solution

Intesa Sanpaolo and EBA CLEARING announce successful first testing results for RT1.

New all-time peak for STEP2

EBA CLEARING’s STEP2 platform has recorded a new all-time peak: more than 147 million transactions were settled on 3 April 2017. On the same day, the STEP2 CC Service saw a new volume record with a total of 15.5 million payments settled and the SEDA Service witnessed a new peak with more than 13.5 million messages processed in March 2017.

EBA CLEARING to introduce EBICS as additional connectivity option for its instant payment system:

Future service participants can use SIANet or EBICS to connect to the new pan-European real-time payment infrastructure from November 2017 on – other options may follow later.

Timely testing phase kick-off for EBA CLEARING’s pan-European instant payment system

The financial institutions from across SEPA that fund the delivery of this infrastructure project witnessed the functioning of the new system in the test environment today during the kick-off meeting for the testing phase in Milan. The implementation of EBA CLEARING’s pan-European instant payment infrastructure platform is fully on track for its go-live in November 2017, on the launch date of the SCT Inst Scheme of the European Payments Council.

New all-time volume peak for STEP2 SEPA Services

EBA CLEARING’s STEP2 SEPA Services saw a new all-time volume peak on 2 January 2017: more than 141 million transactions were settled on that day. On the same day, STEP2 SDD Core also reached a new individual peak record with a total of 105 million SEPA Core Direct Debits settled. December 2016 marked a record month for the EBA CLEARING’s SEDA Service, which processed more than 11.6 million transactions in total during that period.

Video of EBA CLEARING’s Sibos Session now available

The video of EBA CLEARING's Sibos Community Session "Fast, faster, instant" is now available online. Please click on the link below to view the video and hear from industry frontrunners about the pan-European real-time payment system they are developing for November 2017.

Continued support for EBA CLEARING’s instant payment platform

EBA CLEARING witnesses continued strong growth in support for pan-European real-time payment platform.

Technical specifications for instant payment solution available

EBA CLEARING makes available specifications for its pan-European instant payment solution.

Sneak preview of system design of EBA CLEARING’s instant payment platform

EBA CLEARING today provided a sneak preview of the system design, functionality and interface specifications for its future pan-European instant payment platform to a wide audience of payment practitioners and stakeholders at the industry conference EBAday in Milan. The specifications will be published in the course of the summer.

Strong commitment among future users for the launch of EBA CLEARING’s pan-European instant payment platform

EBA CLEARING announced today that the Company has secured strong commitment among future users for the launch of its pan-European instant payment platform. With nearly 40 underwriting banks serving all customer segments throughout SEPA, EBA CLEARING will now proceed as planned with the delivery of its pan-European instant payment infrastructure solution for Q4 2017.

STEP2 allows nearly unlimited structured remittance information in SCTs

EBA CLEARING’s STEP2 platform responds to corporate requirement for nearly unlimited structured remittance information in SEPA Credit Transfers.

EBA CLEARING records a new peak in the Company’s history

EBA CLEARING records a new peak in the Company’s history: in March 2016 a total of 1 billion transactions have been settled in a single month. The record peak includes transactions settled in the EURO1/STEP1 Services, the STEP2 SEPA Services as well as the STEP2 Card Clearing Service.

New peak for SEDA Service

EBA CLEARING’s SEDA Service has witnessed a new peak with more than 10.5 million transactions in total in March.

EBA CLEARING and SIA sign letter of intent

EBA CLEARING and SIA have signed a letter of intent for the technical delivery of a pan-European infrastructure solution for instant payments.

New all-time peak for STEP2 platform

EBA CLEARING’s STEP2 platform has seen a new all-time peak: more than 134 million transactions were settled on 4 January 2016. STEP2 SDD Core has also seen a new volume record with a total of 103 million SEPA Core Direct Debits settled on the same day.