Press releases archive

2014

Central Bank of Latvia to provide Latvian banks with enhanced STEP2 access by directly connecting to EBA CLEARING’s retail payment platform

Latvijas Banka, the central bank of Latvia, is scheduled to connect to the euro retail payment system STEP2 as a direct participant on 8th December 2014.

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Deutsche Bundesbank and EBA CLEARING to deliver new card clearing infrastructure for German banks

The Deutsche Bundesbank and EBA CLEARING are rolling out new infrastructure services on the German market for the clearing of payments arising from debit card transactions.

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Systemic importance of STEP2 reflects evolution of EBA CLEARING’s euro retail payment platform

EBA CLEARING is pleased to note the recent announcement of the European Central Bank, which has identified the Company’s pan-European automated clearing house STEP2 as one of the Systemically Important Payment Systems (SIPS) in Europe, together with STET’s CORE(FR), TARGET2 and EBA CLEARING’s large-value payment system EURO1.

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EBA CLEARING responds to corporate need for extended remittance information

EBA CLEARING is preparing to support additional remittance information in SEPA messages processed by its pan-European retail payment system STEP2

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First banks and service providers sign up for MyBank Mandates

MyBank today opened the doors for registrations for the MyBank Mandate service scheduled to go live on 27th October 2014.

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MyBank – a solution for providing Access to the Account in line with PSD2 requirements

MyBank announced today plans for the solution to provide Access to the Account services, allowing banks and other financial institutions to comply with the requirements of the new Payment Services Directive (PSD2).

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EBA CLEARING plans card clearing service on STEP2 platform

EBA CLEARING announced at the EBAday conference in Helsinki today that the Company is implementing a STEP2 Card Clearing Service for a go-live in April 2015.

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EBA CLEARING sieht bedeutenden Fortschritt bei SEPA-Migration

EBA CLEARING teilte heute mit, dass die Clearing-Plattform STEP2 derzeit einen deutlichen Anstieg an SEPA-Zahlungen verzeichnet. An Spitzentagen wickelt das Massenzahlungssystem mittlerweile über 100 Millionen SEPA- Überweisungen und SEPA-Lastschriften ab

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EBA CLEARING witnesses substantial progress of SEPA migration

EBA CLEARING communicated today that its STEP2 clearing platform is seeing considerable volume growth in SEPA payment processing, leading to peak day volumes above 100 million SEPA Credit Transfers and SEPA Direct Debits.

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Alpitour World adotta MyBank per i pagamenti online

Alpitour Group, UniCredit e MyBank annunciano che Alpitour World ha attivato MyBank sul proprio sito (www.alpitourworld.com)

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Online travel agency Alpitour World adds MyBank as online payment option

Alpitour Group, UniCredit and MyBank announced today that Alpitour is taking MyBank on their website (www.alpitourworld.com).

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Il sistema di pagamento MyBank è ora attivo sull’assicurazione online Zurich Connect

Con MyBank infatti, i titolari di un conto corrente aperto presso le moltissime banche ormai abilitate potranno acquistare online una polizza sul sito Zurich Connect con solo un paio di click.

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Online insurer Zurich Connect takes MyBank payment method

MyBank will allow to all the holders of a current account opened within many banks now enabled to acquirer via online their insurance premiums on Zurich Connect site with just a couple of clicks.

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Si é conclusa con successo la fase pilota dei Service Provider del MyBank Mandate

MyBank ha oggi annunciato l’esito positivo della fase di test dedicata alla soluzione per i mandati elettronici.

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MyBank Mandate Pilot Service Provider testing phase successfully completed

MyBank announced today the successful completion of a major testing phase of its electronic mandate solution

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2013

Utility provider Enel connects to EBA CLEARING’s MyBank service with support of UniCredit

Enel S.p.A., UniCredit S.p.A. and EBA CLEARING announced today the connection of Italy’s leading power company Enel to MyBank, EBA CLEARING’s e-authorisation solution for payments made via online banking

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Enel, la più grande azienda elettrica d’Italia, si collega al servizio MyBank di EBA CLEARING con il supporto di UniCredit

Enel S.p.A., UniCredit S.p.A. ed EBA CLEARING hanno annunciato oggi la connessione del più grande fornitore italiano di energia elettrica a MyBank, la soluzione di EBA CLEARING per l’ autorizzazione di pagamenti eseguiti via online banking

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Major German banks start migration of bilateral transactions to EBA CLEARING’s SEPA payments platform STEP2

Over the last two days, two German financial institutions, which will use EBA CLEARING’s STEP2 platform for a major part of their SEPA payments in the future, have migrated the first transactions to a processing mode that has been specifically designed for handling very high volumes.

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EBA CLEARING’s STEP2 platform passes the mark of 2 billion SEPA payments processed

EBA CLEARING’s STEP2 platform is at the heart of the ongoing SEPA volume ramp-up, which has started to accelerate: over the summer, STEP2 saw a growth of 20 percent in SEPA Credit Transfers and of 80 percent in SEPA Direct Debits

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Partecipanti da sei nazioni europee prendono parte al progetto pilota per l’emissione di mandati elettronici in MyBank

EBA CLEARING ha annunciato oggi che 5 gruppi bancari, 11 tra i principali fornitori di servizi in Europa e due aziende in sei paesi europei (Belgio, Finlandia, Francia, Gran Bretagna, Italia e Paesi Bassi) hanno aderito al progetto pilota per l’utilizzo del mandato elettronico in MyBank, che sarà varato a ottobre 2013.

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Participants from six European countries take part in the MyBank E-mandate Pilot

EBA CLEARING announced today that five financial institutions, 11 major European service providers as well as two corporates from six European countries (Belgium, Finland, France, Italy, the Netherlands and the UK) have signed up for the MyBank E-Mandate Pilot, which will be kicked off in October 2013.

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Emirates NBD to join STEP1 payment service

EBA CLEARING announced today the formal application of Emirates NBD for connection to the STEP1 Service

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SWIFT and EBA CLEARING to launch revamped EURO1/STEP1 Directory

EBA CLEARING and SWIFT announced today that the revamped version of the EURO1/STEP1 Directory will be launched on 21st October 2013

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La seconda finestra di adesione a MyBank vede la partecipazione di altre 23 banche

EBA CLEARING ha annunciato oggi che quattro tra le maggiori banche italiane e la prima banca in Lussemburgo hanno aderito a MyBank, la soluzione paneuropea di EBA CLEARING per le autorizzazioni digitali.

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Second MyBank Joining Window sees another 23 financial institutions go live with MyBank

EBA CLEARING announced today that four major Italian payment banks and a first bank from Luxembourg went live with MyBank, the Company’s panEuropean e-authorisation solution

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EBA CLEARING provides central processing platform for SEPA payments

EBA CLEARING’s STEP2 platform will gradually take over the processing of a major part of the German mass payment volumes from the second half of 2013 onwards

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EBA CLEARING calls for MyBank E-mandate Pilot Participants

EBA CLEARING has issued a call for participation in its MyBank E-mandate Pilot to banks and service providers at the EBAday payments conference in Berlin today.

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EBA CLEARING launches MyBank

EBA CLEARING announced today the launch of its pan-European e-authorisation solution for online payments.

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Italian banks plan nation-wide roll-out of MyBank

The major Italian payment banks announced today their commitment to delivering the MyBank solution to merchants, public institutions and retail customers across Italy before the end of 2013.

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EBA CLEARING launches MyBank Service Provider Program

EBA CLEARING announced today the launch of a MyBank Service Provider Program

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2012

Eleven banks to go live with MyBank in March 2013

BA CLEARING announced today that 11 financial institutions, from Italy, France and Luxembourg, have decided to join the MyBank solution for its launch on 25th March 2013, making the MyBank solution available to millions of retail customers and thousands of e-merchants.

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EBA CLEARING plans third processing site for STEP2 in co-operation with IBM and SIA

EBA CLEARING has partnered up with IBM and SIA to provide a third processing site for STEP2 in anticipation of the SEPA migration end-date.

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EBA CLEARING launches MyBank Technical Pilot

EBA CLEARING announced today at the Global E-Commerce Summit in Barcelona the start of its MyBank Technical Pilot

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Italian banks and e-merchants embrace MyBank e-payment solution

EBA CLEARING confirmed today at the EBAday conference in Edinburgh and at the e-Commerce Netcomm Forum in Milan the strong support its MyBank epayment solution has secured among key market players in Italy.

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STEP2 is ready for SEPA migration end-date

With the deadline for migration to SEPA only 20 months away, EBA CLEARING announced today key deliverables of its project geared at readying the STEP2 platform for processing large domestic volumes in an integrated euro payments environment.

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MyBank Pilot starts in June 2012

EBA CLEARING announced today the successful sending of the first MyBank test transaction between two banks.

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EBA CLEARING introduces additional settlement cycles in the STEP2 SEPA Credit Transfer Service

EBA CLEARING announced today the successful activation of three additional settlement cycles in its STEP2 SEPA Credit Transfer (SCT) Service.

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STEP2 SCT Service witnesses new peak record as it celebrates its 4th anniversary

EBA CLEARING announced today that its STEP2 SEPA Credit Transfer Service witnessed a 78 percent volume increase over the past 12 months.

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2011

EBA CLEARING closes down STEP2 XCT Service as part of SEPA migration

The STEP2 XCT Service witnessed its last day of operation today, 5th December 2011.

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Successful launch of the STEP2 Irish Service

EBA CLEARING and the Irish Payment Services Organisation (IPSO) announced today the successful launch of the STEP2 Irish Service.

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EBA CLEARING to provide banks with more flexibility and control in managing credit risk in EURO1

The EBA CLEARING Company presented today the new measures that will be implemented on its EURO1 platform.

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EBA CLEARING calls for pilot banks and e-merchants to launch MyBank e-payment service

The EBA CLEARING Company has issued a call for participation in its MyBank pilot group to banks and e-merchants across Europe.

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EBA CLEARING to launch pan-European e-payment initiative

The EBA CLEARING Company announced today that it plans to develop and promote a pan-European e-payment service to facilitate online shopping transactions

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Kookmin Bank joins STEP1 payment system

The EBA CLEARING Company announced today the successful connection of Kookmin Bank International Ltd. to the STEP1 Service

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2010

OTP Bank successfully completes EURO1 joining process

EBA CLEARING and OTP Bank announced today the formal acceptance of OTP Bank as an EBA CLEARING shareholder and EURO1 participant

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EBA CLEARING to welcome 1,000+ new banks connecting to STEP2 SEPA Direct Debit Services

EBA CLEARING announced today that over 1,000 additional financial institutions across Europe will be reachable via the STEP2 SEPA Direct Debit (SDD) Services from 1st November 2010.

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Irish banks choose STEP2 bilateral file exchange solution for domestic payment processing

EBA CLEARING and the Irish Payment Services Organisation (IPSO) announced today that the Irish banking community has decided to use the STEP2 platform for processing its domestic payments.

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CRISTAL supports new EURO1 settlement process via TARGET2 Ancillary System Interface

On 7 th June 2010, the EURO1 Service of EBA CLEARING completed its first settlement via the TARGET2 Ancillary System Interface (ASI) successfully and in record time

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EBA CLEARING and IBERPAY activate link between IBERPAY and STEP2 platforms for SEPA Direct Debits

EBA CLEARING and IBERPAY announced today the successful activation of a link for exchanging SEPA Direct Debits (SDD) between IBERPAY and the STEP2 platform

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SEEBACH banks discuss with EBA CLEARING XML processing options for urgent payments

EBA CLEARING and the SEEBACH community, composed of the major Nordic banks, announced today that they are working on the development of a processing solution for urgent payments based on SEPA ISO20022 XML standards

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OTP Bank to join EURO1 payment system

The EBA CLEARING Company announced today that OTP Bank, Hungary’s largest commercial bank, is joining EURO1, the Company’s real-time clearing and settlement system for financial and commercial single payments in euro.

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SEPA Credit Transfer Service of EBA CLEARING experiences steep growth

The EBA CLEARING Company announced today that the SEPA Credit Transfer (SCT) Service on its PE-ACH platform STEP2 attracted 37 percent more payments from January to April 2010 and broke the mark of 800,000 payments processed in one day on 3rd May

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2009

EBA CLEARING successfully kicks off SEPA Direct Debit processing

The EBA CLEARING Company announced today the successful kick-off of its SEPA Direct Debit processing services.

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SDD Services of EBA CLEARING ready for scheme launch

The EBA CLEARING Company announced today that its Pan-European Automated Clearing House (PE-ACH) STEP2 is ready to begin processing SEPA Direct Debits from 2nd November 2009 on, the date on which the new direct debit schemes are launched.

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Landesbank Hessen-Thüringen to connect to EURO1 payment system

The EBA CLEARING Company announced today that Landesbank Hessen-Thüringen Girozentrale (Helaba) is joining EURO1, the Company’s real-time clearing and settlement system for financial and commercial single payments.

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SDD preparations on track for EBA CLEARING banks

The EBA CLEARING Company announced today that the preparations for the launch of its SEPA Direct Debit Services on 2nd November continue to be fully on track

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EURO1/STEP1 Directory increases service reach by close to 75 percent

EBA CLEARING announced today that its new EURO1/STEP1 Directory lists close to 2,400 reachable banks, in addition to the 10,000 participating banks’ BICs, a year after the agreement to jointly deliver the Payments Directory was signed by EBA CLEARING and SWIFT at Sibos 2008.

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European banks prepare for SEPA Direct Debit Services of EBA CLEARING

EBA CLEARING announced today that its community of European payment banks is actively preparing for the direct debit service offerings on its pan-European retail payments platform – STEP2 – in preparation for the launch of the SEPA Direct Debit (SDD) Schemes on 2nd November 2009.

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2008

STEP2 SCT settlement migrated to TARGET2

EBA CLEARING announced today that its STEP2 SEPA Credit Transfer (SCT) Service successfully completed its first settlement cycles on 8th December 2008 using Ancillary System Interface 4 (ASI4) of TARGET2

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STEP2 SCT to offer night-time settlement from December 2008

EBA CLEARING announced today that its PE-ACH platform STEP2 will be the first Clearing and Settlement Mechanism to offer its users night-time settlement of SEPA payments in TARGET2.

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EBA CLEARING gears up for more domestic traffic

EBA CLEARING introduces two additional liquidity distribution windows in EURO1 and increased credit caps in STEP1

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EBA CLEARING and IBERPAY report successful start of link between IBERPAY and STEP2 platforms

EBA CLEARING and IBERPAY reported today a successful start of the link between IBERPAY and the SEPA Credit Transfer (SCT) Service on the STEP2 platform

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First SEPA Credit Transfers successfully processed in STEP2

EBA CLEARING announced today the successful start of the STEP2 SEPA Credit Transfer (SCT) Service.

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-EBA CLEARING and KIR S.A. establish interoperability for SEPA

EBA CLEARING and KIR S.A. (National Clearing House of Poland Co.) announced today their cooperation on establishing interoperability between KIR’s EuroELIXIR platform and the STEP2 SEPA Credit Transfer (SCT) Service for the processing of SEPA payments.

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2007

EBA CLEARING and Seceti announce cooperation on establishing a STEP2 link

EBA CLEARING and Seceti S.p.A. announced today their cooperation on establishing a link to the SEPA Credit Transfer (SCT) Service on the STEP2 platform.

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EBA CLEARING banks get ready for SEPA

EBA CLEARING announced today that 103 banks are presently participating in a testing program offered by EBA CLEARING on its STEP2 pan-European ACH (PE-ACH) platform.

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Launch of new EBA and EBA CLEARING websites

On Monday, 24th September 2007, the EBA Group launched its two new websites, one for the Euro Banking Association (EBA) and one for EBA CLEARING

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Crédit du Nord joins EURO1 payment system

EBA CLEARING announced today that Crédit du Nord has connected to its largevalue clearing and settlement system EURO1.

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EBA CLEARING And SIA-SSB Agree on a shared platform for SEPA Payments

Rome, 5th June 2007 - On the basis of the agreement, SIA-SSB will be in a position to offer the banks in Italy SEPA Credit Transfers and SEPA Direct Debits processing services using the technical platform of EBA CLEARING’s PEACH, STEP2.

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2006

BRED Banque Populaire joins EURO1 payment system

EBA CLEARING announced today that BRED Banque Populaire has connected to its large-value clearing and settlement system EURO1.

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Interactive Workstation for EBA CLEARING’s EURO1/STEP1 platform goes live

EBA CLEARING announced today that banks have started to monitor and control their payment flows on the EURO1/STEP1 platform with the help of a new Interactive Workstation (IWS) developed by SWIFT and EBA CLEARING.

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Banca d’italia and BPU go live on STEP2 Platform

EBA CLEARING announced today that Banca d’Italia has joined the STEP2 platform

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Banks to create first pan- European direct debit service

Fifty-nine major payment banks in Europe have agreed to underwrite the project of EBA CLEARING to develop an infrastructure for processing pan-European Direct Debits.

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2005

Luxembourg’s banks to move national retail transfers to EBA CLEARING’S STEP2 Platform

The Luxembourgish banks announced today their decision to migrate their national retail transfers to EBA CLEARING’s pan-European STEP2 platform.

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EBA CLEARING and CCI Madrid sign mou on the use of the STEP2 platform for domestic payments in Spain

The Centro de Cooperacion Interbancaria (CCI) Madrid and EBA CLEARING this week signed a Memorandum of Understanding on the cooperation between the two organisations with a view to establishing a formal agreement on the use of the STEP2 pan-European ACH platform by the banks in Spain for processing their domestic retail payments

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2004

14 more participants admitted to EBA STEP2

In November 2004, 14 more banks from across the EU Member States will connect to STEP2 as Direct Participants. The decision concerning their admittance was taken at a Board meeting on 30th September 2004

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six new direct Participants join EBA STEP2

The EBA CLEARING Company today announced that an additional six banks successfully connected to the STEP2 system as Direct Participants at the beginning of July (see “Note to Editors” for the list of banks).

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EBA STEP2 and the new EU members states

In the course of May 2004, 19 banks from the New EU Member States will join STEP2 as Indirect Participants.

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2003

EBA Clearing broadens access to EURO1 platform

The EBA Clearing Company today announced the introduction of a new participation status, labelled “Pre-fund Participation (PFP),” to the EURO1 clearing platform.

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STEP2: Number of Participant Banks Reaches 800

The EBA Clearing Company today confirmed that more than 800 banks have joined its pan-European Automated Clearing House (PE-ACH) STEP2 as indirect participants.

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Italian EBA Banks Decide to Migrate their Domestic Payments Traffic to STEP2

The EBA Clearing Company announced today that the Italian EBA banks have confirmed their intention to progressively migrate domestic payments traffic to the STEP 2 system, in the framework of the SEPA concentric model.

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31 banks automate euro payments in time for EC Price Regulation

31 banks are now live on the new Euro Banking Association (EBA) STEP2 panEuropean automated clearing house, meeting tomorrow’s deadline for the EC Regulation 2560/2001 on cross-border payments.

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EBA CLEARING launches STEP 2 the first pan-European ach for retail payments

The EBA Clearing Company has launched the first pan-European ACH-service for retail payments in the Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA). Over the coming months 53 pilot banks will connect to the system.

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2002

More banks join the STEP1 and EURO1 systems of EBA CLEARING

Geneva, 1st October 2002 - EBA CLEARING Company today announced that nine additional banks will start live operations with STEP1 on 7th October 2002

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2001

The EBA payment systems extend their reach:

Two more banks, Erste Bank der Österreichischen Sparkassen, Vienna and Baden-Württembergische Bank, Stuttgart commenced operations in the EBA's EURO1 system today, 17th September, bringing the total number of direct participants to 73.

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2000

Business as usual for EURO1 in Y2K

The EURO1 payments system of EBA CLEARING is operating as usual on the first day of Y2K. By 9:00 CET, 45.000 payments were processed.

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1999

EURO1 reache 100,000 payment

EBA Clearing, the largest cross border euro payments system in terms of daily transactions, today announced the achievement of a significant milestone in its short history;

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Further six banks join EBA CLEARING

EBA Clearing, the largest cross border euro payments system in terms of daily transactions, today announced the achievement of a significant milestone in its short history; breaking the 100,000 payments a day barrier.

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EURO1 membership increase

The EBA Clearing Company, operator of the largest cross border euro payments system in terms of daily transactions, today announced that Banca Popolare di Verona and Westdeutsche Landesbank Girozentrale (WestLB) have joined EURO1 increasing the total number of clearing banks to 66.

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EBA CLEARING completes Y2K global test

The EBA Clearing Company announced today the successful completion of its participation in the Y2K Global Test, a banking industry initiative that took place on 12th and 13th June, co-ordinated by the New York Clearing House

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EBA CLEARING company study highlights changes in correspondent banking practices

Findings from a study carried out by the EBA in March, indicate that in the new euro environment payment trends are triggering an evolution in correspondent banking.

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EBA payment reach 50,000 per day commercial payments pattern emerges

By the end of the second week of euro clearing operations the EBA Clearing Company expects daily payments through its Euro Clearing System (EURO1) to reach 50,000 with an increase of commercial traffic using the system.

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1998

ECB and EBA sign settlement service agreement

At a meeting today in Frankfurt the European Central Bank (ECB) signed the agreements governing the function that the ECB will perform in respect of the EBA’s Euro Clearing System.

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Landmark signing for EBA in Vienna

At a landmark ceremony at Bank Austria in Vienna today, all 62 Clearing Banks of the Euro Banking Association (EBA) signed their contracts with the EBA Euro Clearing Company, which formally puts in place the EBA's pan-European clearing system for the euro.

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Euro banking association makes key executive appointments

The EBA Clearing Company today announced the creation of three new executive posts

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EBA launches EURO1

The EBA Clearing Company has launched the first fully operational private clearing system to settle the euro as of January 4th 1999

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New members broaden reach of EBA’s EURO Clearing system

The Euro Banking Association (EBA), an association of the world’s largest banks, announced today the names of 11 European clearing banks which have become members of its EBA Euro Clearing System and a further nine clearing banks who will join in April 1999.

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EBA CLEARING company announces dynamic pricing policy

The EBA Clearing Company, operator of the Euro Banking Association's (EBA), Euro Clearing System, announced today the pricing policy set for the wholesale and commercial euro payments from 4 January 1999.

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