The technical capability for instant SEPA transfers already exists (and has existed for a while), this is about making it free for everyone (some banks charge an extra fee for instant transfers).
And many do not offer it at all
Yeah, my last bank charged around 15ct per instant transfer. I was unpleasantly surprised when I found out that my current bank takes 2 Euros…
Maybe make the bank Apps a little more intuitive to use and make it easier to send recurring payments to your friends and the monopoly of paypal in germany could disappear
Yeah. It's really a UI issue at this point. Just a simple frontend to facilitate SEPA transactions to contacts (which could just be a simple Name -> IBAN map stored locally)
I could imagine something like an IBAN protocol - open an IBAN link as in iban://AB26374838388 directly with your banking app and auto fill the bank transfer menu. Only add the amount of money you want to transfer.
No idea what other implications that would have e.g. for security though
Oh, add an ?amount=32€ as well as a text=Pizza parameter and you're almost there ...
Separate ?amount=32 and currency=Euro to add currency support.
I thought about that, but I think it's actually more error prone, because people might just be setting ?amount=32 and leaving out currency which might lead to unexpected behaviour. Implementors tend to interpret this differently and one app might take the default currency and the other might fail to accept it, and that kind of different behaviour is a common source of security issues. Having a single unified parameter that must always contain the value and currency "solves" that issue.
There's a standard that does this in form of a QR code: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPC_QR_code
True, my bank also supports this. I already saw QR-Codes on some invoices but never used it... will try it out next time.
Alternatively, let's kill contact lists completely and do this some other way. Contact lists are already a privacy disaster, allowing users to compromise all their friends' personal information without a hint of consent.
You should push for something like BIZUM. Say what you will about Spain but we got that right.
Brazil has PIX: 24/7 instant (inter)bank transfers without any fees, you only need the money and the other person's key (email, phone number, SSN, random key or QR code)
We have it too but not internationally (yet).
This is the best summary I could come up with:
A legal deal struck late Tuesday (7 November) could spell an end to days-long delays in receiving cash for Europeans, who instead could soon transfer funds between bank accounts within seconds.
Instant payments, as they’re known, allow money to move in the blink of an eye — and a new EU law making them the default option across the bloc has been hailed as good news by consumer advocates.
The commission argued its move would free up billions of euros that, at any given moment, aren’t available for people or businesses to spend because they’re in transit through payment systems.
Under the new plans, banks will have to provide the service to their clients at no extra cost, under strict deadlines, said Dutch lawmaker Michiel Hoogeveen, who shepherded the proposals through the European Parliament.
According to a separate statement from the Council of the EU, there’ll be a longer transition period for countries like Sweden and Poland that aren’t in the eurozone.
“This is fantastic news for everyone who wants their payments processed in seconds, not days,” the McGuinness said in a post on social media site X, saying the new rules will make instant transfers “universal, affordable and secure.”
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In Spain we have bizum. It is instant, well integrated with bank apps, works with a mobile number and it is free.
The Netherlands has Tikkie, same thing. And my bank has instantaneous transfers all across the EU… I’ll never change bank
Actually, the goal is to fold all of these national digital payment schemes (like iDeal, Payconic, Giropay,...) into a unified European system called WERO which is also based on SEPA Instant Transfers and will be rolled out over the next couple of years. They actually just finished the acquisition of iDeal recently.
I'm pretty sure Dutch banks already have this with eachother, but it would be great to loop my German friend in too
The EU's payments company bought iDeal, that Dutch service you are mentioning. They're rolling it out EU-wide.
In Ireland, this is already a thing between two people who have an account with the same bank.
Online banks like Revolut and N26 tend to be instant between each other too.
Would be nice to have this between all banks in the EU though.
How is Australia ahead of Europe! We have Osko which allows instant transfer(seconds) upto $10,000 per day. It's fantastic.
It's not that it doesn't exist, but it's an extra paid option.
On my main bank I don't have to pay extra for it, but it doesn't always work
We're talking about payments across different countries. Inside each country payments have been instant for a while
Not in Germany, at least not when using different banks.
Most banks have an instant payment option that comes with a fee.
Which is a fucking insult. The moment i pay anything with a debit card the payment is already noted in my account, just the formal transfer of the money hasn't happened yet. But both banks already know the transaction and they know that they will do the transaction, everything is there already. But they just didn't do the switch.
It is like you would go to an airport, have your luggaged checked in, go through the security, board the plane and everything is ready. Also the starting lane is empty. But the flight will wait until the next day, because thats how it has been done since the days of olde.
It's also such a dumb idea to cut this feature. People will just substitute bank payments for PayPal.
In Poland there is BLIK, it's well integrated, you can use it anywhere, you can pay, you can transfer, you can request, and it's free.
Sweden has Swish. Instant transfers, you can pay with it in some stores and you can request money from others. All you need is a phone number and a bank account.
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