I’m looking forward to the Banking Technology Roundtable tomorrow, sponsored by Logica, on the SEPA end dates debate and future strategies for the Single Euro Payments Area.  Will the controversial end dates of Q4 2012 for SEPA Credit Transfers and Q4 2013 for SEPA Direct Debits envisaged by the EC be implemented or delayed for a [...]

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After lamenting the lowest common denominator approach taken by Sepa and the loss of functionality of its credit transfer and direct debit instruments compared to existing domestic instruments, corporates are taking the matters in their own hands. Keen to avoid a “mini Sepa”, the French Association of Corporate Treasurers (AFTE) announced in its latest newsletter [...]

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