Source: MyBank
The Agency for Digital Italy (AgID) has created a payment hub called "Nodo dei Pagamenti-SPC", a new technological platform that connects public institutions with payment service providers and that allows citizens and businesses to pay online in an easy and secure way at a national level.
The project was created in order to allow individuals and businesses to carry out transactions in favour of public administration agencies and public utilities. It is in line with the SEPA Regulation (2012/260/EU) introduced to support the implementation of the Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA) and with the Payment Services Directive (PSD, 2007/64/EC).
“Nodo dei Pagamenti-SPC” operates in line with AgID’s guidelines, which complements the regulatory framework related to payments as detailed in Article no. 5 of Italy’s Digital Administration Code. All Italian public administration agencies have to connect to the platform by December 2015.
All main Italian banks, Poste Italiane and all others payment institutions recognised by Banca d’Italia have already joined the system. Now it will be available, via the connection to MyBank, to all other European banks offering the MyBank payment option.