SEPA Compliance

SEPA, the single Euro Payment Area, is a framework designed by the European Payment Council to improve the efficiency of cross-border payments in Europe and turn the fragmented national markets for euro payments into a single one. SEPA will enable customers to make cashless euro payments to anyone located anywhere in the European Union (EU) using a single bank account and a standard set of payment instructions. The SEPA Regulation marked the 1 February 2014 as the point at which all credit transfers and direct debits in euro would be made under the same format: SEPA Credit Transfers (SCT) and SEPA Direct Debits (SDD). The 17 countries of the Eurozone have been fully operational for the past year. The 18 other countries of the SEPA zone with non-Euro domestic currencies, must also comply with SEPA migration deadlines by 2016. How are you going to make your payment workflows ready for processing SEPA Credit Transfer and Direct Debit in time without turning your IT infrastructure and res