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2024

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

EBA CLEARING announced today that its pan-European Fraud Pattern and Anomaly Detection (FPAD) functionality already counts 50 active users. FPAD has been available for RT1 and STEP2 users since March 2024, offering a wide range of real-time fraud-fighting tools based on fraud patterns and anomalies that can be identified at network level. The speedy uptake of the functionality demonstrates both the value provided by the functionality and how easily it can be integrated by users.

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Pan-European Verification of Payee delivery on track

EBA CLEARING publishes specifications to provide PSPs with Verification of Payee at a pan-European level

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Pan-European proof of concept showcases value of request to pay

EBA CLEARING announced today that, together with eight multinational payment service providers (PSPs), the Company has completed a pan-European proof of concept leveraging its R2P Service. As part of this initiative, the participating institutions successfully exchanged request to pay messages via R2P in milliseconds. The proof of concept thus confirmed the readiness of R2P to support commercial use cases. It also showcased how PSPs can roll out and create value around request to pay, putting a special focus on e-invoicing in the business-to-business space. A video capturing the results of this initiative was released together with today’s announcement.

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Pan-European verification of payee ready by December

EBA CLEARING announced today that it will provide its service users with Verification of Payee at a pan-European level as from December 2024. The roll-out of Verification of Payee is one element in the comprehensive preparation programme that the Company is engaging in with its user community to take instant payments to the next level.

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EBA CLEARING to launch OCT Service on RT1

EBA CLEARING announced today the delivery of a One-Leg Out Instant Credit Transfer (OCT Inst) Service in the RT1 System for November 2024. This new cross-border service in RT1 will be developed in line with the OCT Inst Scheme of the European Payments Council (EPC). It will rely on the processing infrastructure, the interfaces and other key components of EBA CLEARING’s pan-European instant payment system. The specifications for the service will be made available in April 2024.

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2023

EBA CLEARING issues specifications and runs analytical pilot for pan-European fraud pattern and anomaly detection

EBA CLEARING announced today that it has issued the specifications for its pan-European Fraud Pattern and Anomaly Detection (FPAD) functionality. The pan-European payment infrastructure provider also delivered a developer portal, including a sandbox, to support users in the development and testing of FPAD’s application programming interfaces (APIs).

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EBA CLEARING to kick off analytical pilot for pan-European fraud pattern and anomaly detection

EBA CLEARING announced at its Shareholders Meeting in Madrid today that it will kick off the analytical pilot for the pan-European Fraud Pattern and Anomaly Detection (FPAD) functionality in July 2023.

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Frontrunner banks to deliver request to pay proof of concept with EBA CLEARING’s R2P Service

EBA CLEARING announced today that, together with seven multinational banks, the Company has kicked off preparations for a pan-European request to pay proof of concept (PoC). The aim of this initiative is to showcase how to roll out and create value around request to pay to pave the way for live implementation.

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EBA CLEARING to enrich RT1 and STEP2 with fraud prevention and detection capabilities

EBA CLEARING announced today that it will enrich its SEPA payment systems, RT1 and STEP2, with fraud prevention and detection capabilities by November 2023.

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Large-value payment system EURO1 successfully migrates to ISO 20022

EBA CLEARING announced today that its systemically important payment system EURO1 has successfully migrated to ISO 20022.

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2022

Europe’s leading pan-European instant payment service RT1 turns five

EBA CLEARING’s instant payment service RT1 has been in the forefront of the real-time payment ramp-up across Europe. Today, on its fifth anniversary, the leading pan-European instant payment system reaches 85 per cent of bank customers in SEPA and processes over two million transactions worth 1.5 billion euro per day on average.

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Immediate Cross-Border Payments (IXB) Pilot Set to Revolutionise International Payments

First participants are preparing to exchange cross-border instant payments as part of a live pilot with financial institutions in the United States and Europe. The pilot will leverage the real-time payment systems, RTP® and RT1, the IXB solution and key SWIFT components for transactions in the euro and U.S. dollar currency corridor.

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STEP2 community successfully completes migration to continuous gross settlement

Today, the participants in EBA CLEARING’s pan-European euro mass payment system, STEP2, successfully concluded the migration to the new continuous gross settlement (CGS) mechanism. With this achievement, the STEP2 user community has completed the groundwork for faster delivery of SEPA payments and extended opening hours for STEP2.

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EBA CLEARING, SWIFT and The Clearing House to deliver pilot service for immediate cross-border payments

Taking the next step towards faster cross-border payments, banks from both sides of the Atlantic are preparing to exchange payments across TCH’s and EBA CLEARING’s real-time payment systems.

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STEP2 to process payments within minutes and around the clock

From November 2022, EBA CLEARING’s pan-European mass payment system will be upgraded to process SEPA transactions around the clock, seven days a week, and to provide settlement results to participating banks in minutes.

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2021

EBA CLEARING successfully completes migration of RT1 technical account to TIPS

EBA CLEARING announced today the successful migration of the RT1 technical account from TARGET2 to TIPS. The live activation for the RT1 community – over 2,500 payment service providers in 25 countries – took place on 10 December 2021 as part of the first migration wave for ancillary systems orchestrated by the Eurosystem.

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EBA CLEARING, SWIFT and The Clearing House join forces to speed up and enhance cross-border payments

Banks from both sides of the Atlantic have successfully exchanged payment messages for a faster cross-border payment as part of a proof of concept demonstrating the feasibility of synchronizing settlement across existing instant payment systems in one of the world’s largest currency corridors.

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EBA CLEARING announces winners of the R2P ideation contest

Seven contestants pitched their ideas for end-user solutions leveraging EBA CLEARING’s request to pay messaging infrastructure

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EBA CLEARING and IBERPAY launch interoperable SEPA Request-to-Pay services

EBA CLEARING and IBERPAY announced today that they have delivered two interoperable services to process messages and provide functionalities complying with the new SEPA Request-to-Pay Scheme (SRTP) created by the European Payments Council (EPC). The joint launch of these new infrastructure services took place today, on the day of the entry into force of the new SEPA scheme.

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New RT1 specifications to help users benefit from future TIPS set-up

Enhanced RT1 Instructing Party Functionality for TIPS will allow RT1 Participants all across Europe to manage their SCT Inst traffic and liquidity easily from a single access point

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EBA CLEARING’s RT1 reaches critical mass of Belgian PSPs for instant payments

EBA CLEARING announced today that its RT1 platform has reached critical mass in Belgium for instant payments. The leading pan-European instant payment infrastructure system currently counts six participants based in Belgium: Aion SA, BNP Paribas Fortis, Belfius, CBC Banque, ING Belgium and KBC Bank. Thanks to this coverage, the vast majority of Belgian payment accounts are now reachable for euro instant payments from all across Europe.

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2020

EBA CLEARING’s RT1 expands instant payment reach in Luxembourg

EBA CLEARING announced today that its RT1 platform has considerably expanded its reach in Luxembourg. Five new joiners connected to RT1 today, including two participants from Luxembourg: Banque et Caisse d’Epargne de l’Etat, Luxembourg and Banque Internationale à Luxembourg. With these additional connections, RT1 has established critical mass for instant payments in 10 European countries.

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Timely start of test phase for pan-European request to pay infrastructure service

EBA CLEARING today announced the timely start of the testing phase for its pan-European request to pay infrastructure (R2P) service, which is scheduled to go live in November 2020 in line with the launch of the SEPA Request to Pay Scheme by the European Payments Council (EPC).

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EBA CLEARING’s RT1 reaches critical mass in France

EBA CLEARING announced today that its RT1 platform has made considerable progress in building up pan-European instant payment reach across the French retail payments market.

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2019

EBA CLEARING delivers specifications for a pan-European request to pay infrastructure solution

The development work for EBA CLEARING’s R2P solution is on track for a scheduled go-live in November 2020.

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EBA CLEARING kicks off development of pan-European request to pay infrastructure solution with 26 PSPs

The delivery of the solution is supported and funded by 26 financial institutions from 11 countries for a go-live in 2020.

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24 PSPs support delivery of pan-European Request to Pay infrastructure solution by EBA CLEARING

Financial institutions from 11 countries have responded to a call for contributing to the development of this important enabler of instant payments

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EBA CLEARING’s RT1 platform builds up nearly full instant payment coverage in Finland

Six major players in the Finnish retail payments market are now connected to the pan-European instant payment system of EBA CLEARING.

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EBA CLEARING’s real-time payment system RT1 reaches critical mass in Germany

RT1 provides instant payment coverage to 1,700+ PSPs in Germany via seven service participants

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EBA CLEARINGs Echtzeitzahlungssystem RT1 erreicht kritische Masse in Deutschland

Über 1.700 Finanzinstitute in Deutschland sind nun mittels sieben Teilnehmerbanken an RT1 angeschlossen

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2018

EBA CLEARING kicks off task force to work on a pan-European Request to Pay solution

The task force will be working on a blueprint setting forth suitable solution(s)

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EBA CLEARING’s real-time payment system RT1 passes 5-million-transaction mark

11 months after go-live, the pan-European instant payment platform reaches PSPs in 12 countries, processing over 70,000 real-time payments in euro per day.

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EBA CLEARING and SWIFT kick off EURO1 ISO 20022 migration for November 2021

EBA CLEARING and SWIFT announced today the start of a work programme to migrate the large-value payment system (LVPS) EURO1 to the ISO 20022 standard.

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EBA CLEARING’s instant payment system RT1 expands reach to over 1,000 payment service providers

EBA CLEARING announced today that its pan-European instant payment system RT1 successfully connected six new participants yesterday. German savings bank sector connected to RT1 via LBBW and Helaba.

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EBA CLEARINGs Echtzeitzahlungssystem RT1 weitet Reichweite auf mehr als 1.000 Zahlungsanbieter aus

EBA CLEARING gab heute bekannt, dass das Echtzeitzahlungssystem RT1 des Unternehmens gestern erfolgreich sechs neue Teilnehmer angeschlossen hat. Der deutsche Sparkassensektor schloss sich über LBBW und Helaba an RT1 an.

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EBA CLEARING charts course for EURO1 future with strong focus on cross-service alignment

EBA CLEARING announced at the EBAday conference in Munich today that it is aiming to optimally support the users of its different services in their integration of management and monitoring tasks as the industry is preparing for the migration of large-value payment systems, such as TARGET2 or EURO1, to ISO 20022 standards.

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EBA CLEARING’s instant payment system RT1 hits 500,000-transaction mark

Three months after go-live, the pan-European platform handles more than 10,000 real-time payments in euro per day.

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2017

Successful go-live for EBA CLEARING’s instant payment system RT1

EBA CLEARING today confirmed that instant payment system RT1 went live this morning. 17 banks from eight countries connected to RT1 today, extending SCT Inst reach to 500+ PSPs across SEPA.

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IBERPAY ready to connect Spanish banks to EBA CLEARING’s RT1 system for SCT Inst processing

IBERPAY and EBA CLEARING announced today that the Spanish retail payment system is ready to provide Europe-wide instant payment connectivity to Spanish banks with the support of IBERPAY’s CICLOM platform and EBA CLEARING’s RT1 system.

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SWIFTNet Instant to provide access to EBA CLEARING's RT1 system.

RT1 users will be able to access the platform via SWIFTNet Instant in November 2018.

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Banks from nine countries to join RT1 for go-live

This first group of RT1 users is currently completing the required testing for connecting to the platform.

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UniCredit prepares for multinational roll-out of instant payments

UniCredit and EBA CLEARING today announced that UniCredit has started testing with RT1, EBA CLEARING’s pan-European, real-time payment platform.

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Instant Payments: accordo tra ICBPI ed EBA CLEARING

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EBA CLEARING launches programme on future positioning of its high-value payment system EURO1

The pan-European infrastructure provider will work with users on the evolution of its flagship service in the face of ongoing and emerging market developments

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EBA CLEARING publishes white paper on how to ensure smooth take-off for euro instant payments

The paper presents key factors for a successful ramp-up of real-time payments, such as payment certainty and reach, and explains how these can be supported at an infrastructure level.

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Intesa Sanpaolo and EBA CLEARING announce successful first testing results for the first pan-European instant payment solution

INTESA SANPAOLO, a leading bank in Europe, and EBA CLEARING have announced today the successful execution of the first user testing activities for the Pan-European real-time payment platform of EBA CLEARING.

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EBA CLEARING to introduce EBICS as additional connectivity option for its instant payment system

EBA CLEARING announced today that the future participants in its pan-European instant payment infrastructure service will be able to use, in addition to SIANet, the Electronic Banking Internet Communication Standard (EBICS) for the exchange of transaction messages with the platform.

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Timely testing phase kick-off for EBA CLEARING’s pan-European instant payment system

EBA CLEARING today announced the timely kick-off of the testing phase for its pan-European instant payment infrastructure platform scheduled to go live in November 2017.

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Avviata la fase di test del sistema pan-europeo di instant payments di EBA CLEARING

EBA CLEARING ha annunciato oggi l’avvio della fase di test della propria infrastruttura pan-europea di instant payments che si prevede sarà operativa a novembre 2017.

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2016

EBA CLEARING witnesses continued strong growth in support for pan-European real-time payment platform

EBA CLEARING continues to register a strong growth in the number of payment service providers (PSPs) confirming their interest in the Company's pan-European instant payment service, which is on schedule to be delivered in November 2017.

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EBA CLEARING makes available specifications for its pan-European instant payment solution

EBA CLEARING today made available the specifications for its future pan-European instant payment solution scheduled to go live in November 2017.

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EBA CLEARING provides sneak preview of instant payment platform design

EBA CLEARING today provided a sneak preview of the system design, functionality and interface specifications for its future pan-European instant payment platform to a wide audience of payment practitioners and stakeholders at the industry conference EBAday in Milan.

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EBA CLEARING secures strong commitment for Q4/2017 launch of its pan-European instant payment platform

With nearly 40 underwriting banks serving all customer segments throughout SEPA, the Company will proceed as planned with the delivery of its pan-European instant payment infrastructure solution

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EBA CLEARING’s STEP2 platform responds to corporate requirement for nearly unlimited structured remittance information in SEPA Credit Transfers

EBA CLEARING announced today the activation of an enhanced extended remittance information service on its pan-European automated clearing house platform STEP2.

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EBA CLEARING and SIA sign letter of intent for the technical delivery of a pan-European infrastructure solution for instant payments

EBA CLEARING has signed a letter of intent with SIA to develop a pan-European real-time infrastructure solution by the fourth quarter of 2017.

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2015

Bank of Lithuania provides SEPA connectivity to local banks via EBA CLEARING’s STEP2 platform

EBA CLEARING announced today that Lietuvos Bankas, the Lithuanian central bank, joined the pan-European euro retail payment system STEP2 as a direct participant on 7th December 2015 with a view to extending full SEPA reach to the local banking community.

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EBA CLEARING issues updated version of blueprint for pan-European instant payment infrastructure solution

EBA CLEARING has issued an updated version of its Blueprint for an Instant Payment Infrastructure Solution, which was first made available to the payments industry and interested stakeholders in July 2015.

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EBA CLEARING launches RFP process for pan-European instant payment infrastructure solution

EBA CLEARING has launched a Request for Proposal (RFP) process for the delivery of a pan-European instant payment infrastructure solution within the next two years.

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EBA CLEARING issues blueprint for pan-European instant payment infrastructure solution

EBA CLEARING has published a blueprint document spelling out high-level business requirements for a pan-European instant payment infrastructure solution.

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EBA CLEARING’s STEP2 Card Clearing Service supports banks in reaping synergies from the reuse of SEPA infrastructure and interfaces

The ramp-up of EBA CLEARING’s STEP2 Card Clearing Service is ongoing, following the successful launch of the service on 14th April 2015.

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Hays Littlejohn takes office as new CEO of EBA CLEARING

Hays Littlejohn took office at EBA CLEARING as the Company’s new Chief Executive Officer on 1st May 2015, following his appointment by the EBA CLEARING Board on 1st November 2014.

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EBA CLEARING kicks off task force as part of work on pan-European instant payment infrastructure solution

EBA CLEARING announced today the kick-off of an Instant Payment Task Force to support the Company’s ongoing work on the creation of a pan-European solution for instant payment processing.

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