EBA CLEARING Board elections 2025

By Danielle Katchui Yampang | May 27, 2025 |

At the EBA CLEARING Shareholders Meeting which took place on 26 May 2025, Niklas Lemberg was elected as new Deputy Chairperson of the Board, succeeding Robert Heisterborg of ING Bank who retires from the Board. Furthermore, Annelinda Koldewe (ING Bank) was elected into office, and EBA CLEARING Board members, Simone Loefgen (Commerzbank) and Frantz Teissèdre…

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Strong uptake of EBA CLEARING’s FPAD VOP solution

By Bettina Hessler | May 22, 2025 |

Over 55 RT1 and STEP2 Participants across 14 countries to adopt FPAD VOP FPAD VOP timely enhanced with various extra options to ensure full reach EBA CLEARING announced today that over 55 RT1 and STEP2 Participants across 14 countries are preparing to adopt its Fraud Pattern and Anomaly Detection (FPAD) Verification of Payee (VOP) solution…

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RT1 registers volume boost – and is ready for more

By Bettina Hessler | March 21, 2025 |

For the first time in service history, the short month of February saw higher volumes than January. And not only that: February 2025 set new all-time records for both the average daily transactions processed and their value. At the same time, RT1 performance levels and rejection rates stayed the same despite the rising volumes. Going…

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Pan-European OCT Inst Service goes live in RT1

By Danielle Katchui Yampang | December 17, 2024 |

RT1 OCT Inst Service leverages existing building blocks to support RT1 Participants with a smooth onboarding RT1 Participants are eager to re-use the pan-European instant payment infrastructure for cross-border payments   EBA CLEARING announced today the go-live of an OCT Inst Service, which was implemented in the pan-European RT1 System on 17 November 2024 at…

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EBA CLEARING launches SEPA-wide VOP solution

By Danielle Katchui Yampang | December 10, 2024 |

The pan-European verification of payee (VOP) solution helps PSPs meet Instant Payments Regulation and EPC scheme requirements Different options on the requesting and responding side offer maximum flexibility and enhanced fraud prevention features powered by network-based insights   EBA CLEARING today announced the launch of its SEPA-wide VOP solution. The new solution supports payment service…

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RT1 transaction volume continues to rise

By Soren Kuula | October 21, 2024

In September 2024, RT1 processed a new record volume of 95.5 million transactions. The daily average transaction volume rose to a a new high of 3.2 million, amounting to an average value of over 2 billion euro per day. The month closed with a peak daily volume of 4.8 million on 30 September. RT1’s processing…

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EBA CLEARING welcomes 50th active user of FPAD fraud-fighting functionality

By Soren Kuula | September 17, 2024 |

Steep uptake of FPAD usage by RT1 and STEP2 Participants since launch in March 2024 FPAD’s pan-European network view enriches PSPs’ fraud risk assessments and provides the stepping-stone to Verification of Payee EBA CLEARING announced today that its pan-European Fraud Pattern and Anomaly Detection (FPAD) functionality already counts 50 active users. FPAD has been available…

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RT1 sets transaction records in July

By Tayo Joseph | August 23, 2024 |

In July, instant payment system RT1 processed 95.2 million transaction per month. This is the highest number of transactions processed per month since the launch of RT1 in 2017. July also saw records in the daily average volume and value: RT1 processed 3.1 million transactions worth over 2 billion euro per day on average. Despite…

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EBA CLEARING welcomes new Board members

By Tayo Joseph | July 2, 2024 |

As from 2 July 2024, Katja Lehr of J.P. Morgan and Frantz Teissèdre of Société Générale have joined the Board of EBA CLEARING. Katja Lehr succeeds James Barclay of J.P. Morgan and represents the UK user community. Frantz Teissèdre returns to the EBA CLEARING Board, succeeding Nicolas Cailly as a representative of the French user…

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