It's easy to forget, but before SEPA, making cross-border payments in Europe was characterised by high fees, long delays, and confusing processes. Today, things couldn't be more different. Thanks to ...

AikBank is the first commercial bank on the Serbian market to receive official approval from the European Payments Council (EPC) to join the Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA). From May, the bank’s ...

Serbia's AikBank said on Thursday that it will start processing euro transfers with Single Euro Payment Area (SEPA) countries ...

The chairman of the banking group leading the migration to a Single Euro Payments Area says the group welcomes the more-active role European officials apparently plan to take in SEPA's rollout. Gerard ...

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When the European Union began developing the Single Euro Payments Area more than a decade ago, it didn't include a vision for real-time payments and the potential for a third European payments scheme.

Six months after SEPA’s introduction, banks are still trying to devise ways to encourage the businesses they serve to jump aboard. Additional optional services may provide the answer. The introduction ...

BVNK has achieved direct access to the EU’s Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA) scheme via the Bank of Lithuania’s CENTROlink system, marking a significant ...

LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Citi has announced the launch of Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA) Instant Payments in Europe, further increasing the bank’s global Instant Payments offering. The launch will ...

The SEPA Credit Transfer system, which was a launched on 28 January 2008, is used for fewer than 5% of all credit transfers in SEPA. In addition, for most companies, there has been little if any ...

The birth of a new currency used by more than 300 million consumers is a remarkable event. Since 1999, corporates around the world have embraced the single currency and gained from a degree of ...