Sepa and the PSD: a brief history

Cash management: The Sepa revolution quietly creeps in

Cash management: The Sepa revolution quietly creeps in

What does SEPA involve?

What corporates must do

The Single Euro Payment Area (Sepa) is a classic example of unintended consequences. In 2000, the European Union’s Lisbon Strategy set out a plan to create an internal market for financial services by 2010. The first fruit of that plan was regulation 2560 in 2001, an EU Parliament and European Council measure that aimed to remove differences in costs of eurozone cross-border card payments, ATM withdrawals and credit transfers throughout the region – thus increasing efficiency, lowering costs and improving competitiveness.

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