Sepa Instant Credit Transfer news and trends

ACI Worldwide Offers Instant Payments to UK and EU Merchants
Real-Time Payments // June 19, 2023

ACI Worldwide has launched its instant payments solution for merchants in Europe and the U.K. ACI Instant Pay will let merchants in these areas accept instant online, mobile and in-store payments by integrating with the real-time company’s payment orchestration platform, ACI said in a Monday (June...

Italy’s Real-Time Payments Adoption Shows Promise Despite Slow Growth
Real-Time Payments // May 01, 2023

As digital payments and the need for faster and more efficient financial transactions grow in popularity, countries and regions around the world are accelerating the adoption of real-time payment systems. In Europe, for example, real-time payments have seen historic growth in recent years, with European...

Austria Accelerates Real-Time Pace as EU Pursues Instant Payment Mandate
Real-Time Payments // February 28, 2023

The SEPA Instant Credit Transfer (SCT Inst) continues to gain traction in Europe amid uneven growth across the region. Introduced in November 2017, the intra-European payments scheme, also known as SEPA Instant, was built on the existing SEPA architecture with the promise of ultra-fast euro...

EU Banking Trade Group Presses The Issue On Instant Payments
Payment Methods // April 19, 2021

It’s not an easy task to get the European Union to speak in a single voice for anything. With 27 member states in motion and the U.K. on its way out, it’s a powerful group of countries stitched into a shared economy but one that’s...

Interviews & Exclusives
EU Banking Trade Group Presses The Issue On Instant Payments

April 19, 2021
It’s not an easy task to get the European Union to speak in a single voice for anything. With 27 member states in motion and the U.K. on its way out, it’s a powerful group of countries stitched into a shared economy but one that’s in constant flux. Now add in the complete revolution that’s […]

Quick Reads
Thought Machine and Form3 Partner on Real-Time Payment Processing 

October 23, 2023
Cloud-native banking technology company Thought Machine has partnered with cloud-native account-to-account (A2A) platform Form3 to offer banks and financial institutions an end-to-end solution for real-time payment processing.  This collaboration will add the FedNow® Service, The Clearing House’s RTP and SEPA Instant Credit Transfer connectivity to Thought Machine’s Vault Payments, a cloud-native and application programming interface (API)-enabled platform that simplifies payment processing for banks, the companies said […]

ACI Worldwide Offers Instant Payments to UK and EU Merchants

June 19, 2023
ACI Worldwide has launched its instant payments solution for merchants in Europe and the U.K. ACI Instant Pay will let merchants in these areas accept instant online, mobile and in-store payments...