SEPA
RSS SEPASepa headache looms for banks
News Over half of European and global banks think meeting the January 2008 deadline for the Single Euro Payment Area (SEPA) is unachievable. VocaLink and Finextra Research, 81 per cent of banks believe their customers could... [01 Oct 2007]
Q&A: Ashwin Goyall, Oracle VP of industry strategy for financial services
Comment Compliance requirements have increased, with initiatives like Basel II, MiFID and SEPA. Oracle created a global financial services business unit in June to bring together a number of assets and acquisitions under one... [23 Jul 2007]
VocaLink is born
News The new company has developed a European-wide payments processing system which will come on stream when the single European payments area (Sepa) comes into effect in January 2008.silicon.com Financial Services [02 Jul 2007]
SOA? Get the business involved, say IT chiefs
News Travelex has now fully rolled out Unify's SOA - in part to help the company comply with the upcoming Sepa regulations. Getting the business to understand the need for service-oriented architecture (SOA) projects is key... [23 Mar 2007]
Voca finds the missing Link
News The new company will be aiming to take advantage of the Single European Payments Area (Sepa), due to come in between 2008 and 2010.silicon.com Financial Services King said: "[Sepa's] creating huge... [06 Mar 2007]
CRM is top priority for banks
News European research manager, Rachel Hunt, who carried out the study, told silicon.com the harmonisation of European banking - with initiatives such as MiFID and Sepa - will mean customers may be tempted elsewhere in the... [28 Feb 2007]
Euro payment cost-drop revealed
News The regulation effort has provided an incentive for the payments industry to modernise its EU-wide payment infrastructure and represents an important step towards creating a Single Euro Payment Area (Sepa) for non-cash... [12 Jan 2007]
European IT companies miss out on bank deals
News IT investment also continues to be driven by regulation around payments, with the UK Faster Payment and SEPA initiatives. European IT companies are falling behind in the race to win business from financial services... [10 Nov 2006]
Voca revs up payments engine
News One of those regulations, the Single Euro Payments Area (Sepa), is set to handle cheaper and faster cross-border transactions, which led Voca to the redesign. It will merge Sepa payments and schemes from... [25 Jul 2006]
MasterCard moves to global payments system
News Under the Single European Payments Area (Sepa) this must happen by 2010. Sepa will also mean that Europe-wide card issuers can compete with domestic card companies. MasterCard is speeding up its payments... [14 Jul 2006]
Cheat Sheet: Sepa
Cheat Sheet Thus the Single European Payments Area (Sepa) was born. On the consumer side of things, if Sepa comes into being by 2010, it could mean you'll be able to buy things on your card in another European... [14 Feb 2006]
EC to quiz banks on payment plans
News The Single Euro Payments Area (Sepa) project aims to make European payments as simple and cheap as domestic ones, which will involve new payment systems and upgrades to complex IT systems to bring down costs and increase... [14 Feb 2006]
Banks to up tech spending on Europe's orders
News The Single European Payments Area (Sepa) is aimed at driving down cross-border transaction costs by 2008, and banks will have to upgrade their systems if they want to bring payment costs down, according to analyst... [20 Jan 2006]
Voca obeys call for cheaper Euro payments
News The firm, formally known as Bacs, is working with BEA Systems, Sun and Oracle to replace mainframe computers to comply with the European directive, the Single European Payments Area (Sepa) - aimed at driving down... [12 Oct 2005]
