EBA Clearing - News, Articles & Research

Request to pay, digital currencies and the need to prioritise wisely

Thomas Egner, Secretary General of the Euro Banking Association, explains during Sibos 2021 why progress on request to pay will depend on more industry coordination and gives an overview of the Association’s work on digital currencies.

11 October 2021

Company announcement/payments

Request to Pay: Survey confirms high demand

Europe's economy is almost unanimous in welcoming the launch of Request to Pay and sees a wide range of uses of the pan-European standard for electronic payment requirements.

09 August 2021

Company announcement/people

Michele Olin appointed as EBA Clearing chairperson

Michele Olin (Allied Irish Banks) was appointed as EBA CLEARING Chairperson by the Company’s Shareholders on 25 June 2021 for a three-year term of office.

01 July 2021

News/payments

EBAday 2021: Payments transformation and the road to success

Finextra Research and the Euro Banking Association today welcomed the global banking community to EBAday 2021. Running from 28-30 June, the virtual conference is being led by some of the most influential leaders and practitioners in the financial services sector, and dives into the current and future trends of the European and international payments landscape – as well as the latest developments across digital banking, liquidity management, open banking, real-time payments, and more.

28 June 2021

Company announcement/security

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).

15 June 2021

Finextra TV/payments

Retail Payments Strategy & boosting Instant Payments across Europe

Hays Littlejohn, CEO of EBA CLEARING, speaks in the lead up to EBAday 2021 to FinextraTV about European Retail Payments Strategy. We hear what this means for the role of EBA CLEARING, the increased activity in 2021 to boost instant payments across Europe, what RT1 has in the pipeline to help its participants and what kind of new instant payment and request to pay opportunities we can expect PSPs to embrace.

11 June 2021

Finextra TV/payments

Succeeding Digitally in the World of Open Banking

In the lead-up to EBAday 2021, Vincent Brennan, Payments and Operational Resilience Advisor, Bank of Ireland, and Daniel Szmukler, Director, Euro Banking Association, speak about their recent thought leadership paper in the open banking space. We learn how banks need to strategically implement digital operating models to succeed in the digital and open banking world, the ways in which digital banks are focused on their customers, and how the paper ties in with other research informed by the EBA’s Open Banking Working Group.

07 June 2021

News/payments

EBAday 2021: Request-to-Pay most useful in Customer-to-Merchant payments

Having been touted as the ‘missing piece of the instant payment puzzle,’ many are keenly interested in the potential Request-to-Pay holds for streamlining payments, improving customer experience, and optimising liquidity through better cash management and visibility.

25 May 2021

Company announcement/payments

New RT1 specifications for TIPS to simplify SCT Inst traffic management

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.

23 April 2021

Company announcement/payments

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.

11 February 2021

News/regulation

Konsentus acquires Open Banking Europe

Konsentus has acquired Open Banking Europe, the operator of a centralised PSD2 directory supporting bank data sharing initiatives, from EBA Clearing subsidiary Preta.

18 January 2021

News/payments

EBAday 2020: Finding the killer app for Request to Pay

Request to Pay is in danger of being an answer without a question, unless the banking and payments ecosystem can come together with the corporate world to identify a killer use case that would encourage mass adoption.

26 November 2020