Unlike some of the sceptics about SEPA, I believe we are finally
getting there. There’s still a long road ahead – the SEPA Direct Debits (SDD),
the Payment Services Directive, effective card schemes using the SEPA Card
Framework (SCF), D+1 and more still need to be implemented – but we are heading
in the right direction.
This was confirmed the other day at the Eurofinance conference in Miami where
we did another audience poll around SEPA. Again, using interactive voting of
around one hundred or so US, Canadian and Latin American bankers and treasurers,
I thought these results would be interesting as SEPA is thought of as a very
European thing.
The first question was to gauge their familiarity with SEPA ...
Chris M Skinner
Chris Skinner is best known as an independent commentator on the financial markets through his blog, TheFinanser.com, as author of the bestselling book Digital Bank, and Chair of the European networking forum the Financial Services Club. He has been voted one of the most influential people in banking by The Financial Brand (as well as one of the best blogs), a FinTech Titan (Next Bank), one of the Fintech Leaders you need to follow (City AM, Deluxe and Jax Finance), as well as one of the Top 40 most influential people in financial technology by the Wall Street Journal's Financial News. To learn more click here...
