04^th March 2014 New volume peaks in STEP2 SEPA Services: over 85 million SEPA Core Direct Debits and close to 25 million SEPA Credit Transfers were settled on EBA CLEARING’s STEP2 platform on 3rd March 2014.

04^th February 2014 On the first business day following the SEPA migration end-date for the Eurozone, EBA CLEARING’s STEP2 system witnessed new volume peaks in its SEPA Services: close to 68 million SEPA Core Direct Debits and over 24 million SEPA Credit Transfers were settled on 3rd February.

02^nd January 2014 EBA CLEARING’s STEP2 SCT and SDD Core Services have seen new peak records: On 30th December, the STEP2 SCT Service processed more than 17 million payments while the STEP2 SDD Core Service settled today a total of over 50 million transactions.

02^nd January 2014 As of 1st January, the STEP2 third pole is fully available, providing regional resilience and the highest level of operational robustness for the STEP2 SEPA Services. The third pole was implemented on a technical platform using IBM processing facilities and is operated by SIA, the technical operator of STEP2.

27^th December 2013 In December, the eight biggest banks in Estonia successfully completed functional and volume tests that were organised by EBA CLEARING to support them in their preparation to migrate domestic volumes to the STEP2 platform.