05^th January 2015 New volume peaks in EBA CLEARING’s STEP2 SEPA Services: over 29 million SEPA Credit Transfers were settled on 30th December 2014 and more than 96.5 million SEPA Core Direct Debits were settled on 2nd January 2015. Altogether, EBA CLEARING cleared more than 115 million SEPA payments on 2nd January 2015. The historical peak remains 3rd July 2014 when EBA CLEARING cleared more than 124 million SEPA payments in one day.

22^nd December 2014 In a year-end interview published today, EBA CLEARING Chairman Erkki Poutiainen and CEO Gilbert Lichter take a look back at SEPA migration and provide an outlook on the Company’s key deliverables for 2015. Please click here to download the interview.

03^rd December 2014 Peter Vance, Allied Irish Banks (AIB), has been appointed as new Chairman of the Operations and Technical Committee (OTC) by the EBA CLEARING Board at its meeting last week. He takes over the OTC chair with immediate effect. The OTC has the mission to recommend enhancements to the operational, procedural, functional and technical aspects with regard to the EBA CLEARING Systems EURO1, STEP1 and (where relevant) STEP2.

29^th September 2014 Are you at Sibos? Join our community session "What comes after SEPA?" today at 12:30 (local time) in Conference Room 1. For more information on the session, please click here.

21^st August 2014 EBA CLEARING’s payment systems EURO1 and STEP2 are among the four systemically important payment systems identified by the European Central Bank (ECB). For more information, please consult the ECB press release issued today.