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Today, the Berlin Group announces that the European Central Bank (ECB) has joined the initiative as a non-voting observer participant. The ECB's participation reflects the growing recognition of…
Read more →In line with its commitment to market transparency, the Berlin Group has published the detailed Workplan 2026-2027.
Read more →Today, the Berlin Group announces a collaboration with nexo standards to align their standards as a support to the European Central Bank in the further design of the…
Read more →The European market is facing a multitude of payment methods that all share comparable functionality, but with different customer interfaces, creating implementation challenges (and related costs), especially at…
Read more →KIBS AD from North Macedonia has decided to officially join the Berlin Group as a participant. The core activities of KIBS AD (Clearing Interbank Systems) are related to…
Read more →The Berlin Group has published Version 1.2 of the NextGenMobileP2P Framework. The Version 1.2 integrates Change Requests submitted by the EPC (European Payments Council) SPL (SEPA Proxy Lookup)…
Read more →Today, the Berlin Group announces that they will start to work on a full openFinance API (Application Programming Interface) Framework. Leveraging the NextGenPSD2 API Framework technology and infrastructure…
Read more →The Dutch Payments Association has decided to officially join the Berlin Group as a participant. Berlin Group is very pleased with the additional commitment expressed by the Dutch…
Read more →The Berlin Group has published Version 1.1 of the NextGenMobileP2P Framework. The Version 1.1 integrates Change Requests submitted by EPC (European Payments Council) after their 3-month public consultation…
Read more →Bankart is the leading payments company in Slovenia. It was founded in 1997 and it provides ATM, POS, card, online, mobile and SEPA processing services to more than…
Read more →J.P. Morgan continues to build momentum in the Open Banking payments space in Europe by joining the Berlin Group. Sungmahn Seo, Managing Director and EMEA Head of Payments,…
Read more →Credorax from Malta has recently decided to join the Berlin Group. Credorax: ”We are the fastest-growing cross-border merchant acquiring bank and processor, offering cross-border solutions to global merchants…
Read more →At the instigation of the European Central Bank and the European Commission, the Cards Stakeholder Group (today's European Cards Stakeholder Group ECSG) was set up in 2009 to…
Read more →Raiffeisen Schweiz has recently decided to join the Berlin Group. The Raiffeisen Group is the leading Swiss retail bank and the third largest force in the Swiss banking…
Read more →Today, the Berlin Group has published Version 1.0 of the NextGenPSD2 Access to Accounts (XS2A) Framework that enables Third Party Providers (TPPs) to access bank accounts under the…
Read more →Mastercard Europe has recently decided to join the Berlin Group. Mastercard is well known as the international payment scheme and technology company in the global payments industry, connecting…
Read more →PSA Payment Services Austria GmbH has recently decided to join the Berlin Group. PSA Payment Services Austria was founded in 2012 by splitting the former PayLife Bank Gmbh…
Read more →With the release of a press statement today, the Berlin Group NextGenPSD2 Taskforce announced the launch of a 6-weeks public market consultation on its NextGenPSD2 Access to Accounts…
Read more →With the release of a press statement today, the Berlin Group NextGenPSD2 Taskforce announced the creation of an open, common and harmonised European API (Application Programming Interface) standard…
Read more →The Berlin Group has officially published Version 1.0 of the Mobile P2P Interoperability Framework on its website. The Framework documents define a standard set of functional and technical…
Read more →The revised Payment Services Directive (EU 2015/2366, also known as PSD2) came into force on 12 January 2016 and for most of the provisions, Member States will have…
Read more →The Joint Initiative of the Berlin Group, leading Mobile P2P scheme services in Europe, and associated infrastructure providers, has published its first phase deliverable of a 'Technical Feasibility…
Read more →In the Spring Edition of the Journal of Payments Strategy & Systems, the German Central Bank (Bundesbank) recently published an article on the SEPA Card Clearing (SCC) Framework.…
Read more →Following the Berlin Group Plenary decision of November 2014 to investigate the implications of realtime requirements on existing Berlin Group standards and to start working on harmonised standards…
Read more →The Berlin Group Plenary meeting of November 2014 has confirmed the strategy to integrate tokenisation and instant (realtime) payments into the Berlin Group specifications. The possible use and…
Read more →The Berlin Group has issued the Release Note 2014 for Version 2.0 of the SEPA Card Clearing Framework (SCC). SCC provides the first implementation of the XML extension…
Read more →Established in 2004 as an open standardisation initiative for the scheme-independent switching of card-originated payment messages, the Berlin Group celebrates its 10-years Anniversary in 2014. In order to…
Read more →The Berlin Group has issued the Version 2.0 of the SEPA Card Clearing Framework (SCC). The new release provides the first implementation of the XML extension approach of…
Read more →The Berlin Group has issued the Version 1.1 of the SEPA Card Clearing Framework (SCC). The new release is extended with support of cash management (camt) messages for…
Read more →SER2S is the network operator of e-rsb the card authorisation switching network. e-rsb is a trademark of SER2S. SER2S has been created the January 2011 1th, and is…
Read more →The Berlin Group has published a new release of its ISO8583 based authorisation and clearing specifications. The new release contains new services around top-up functions for prepaid mobile…
Read more →Major players in the European card payments industry have joined together in the "Berlin Group" standardisation initiative to deliver the first common standard for the ISO 20022 payment…
Read more →The Berlin Group had initiated a public consultation on its work on the SEPA Card Clearing Framework (SCC), cp. Berlin Group News of November 2009. The resolutions of…
Read more →DIAS Interbanking Systems S.A. joined the Berlin Group in February 2010. DIAS was founded in 1989 by the Greek Banks and the Bank of Greece. DIAS explained the…
Read more →In January 2010 Payfair joined the Berlin Group initiative. Payfair explained the reasons as follows. "PayFair's vision of SEPA is an area where stakeholders can freely chose the…
Read more →Major players in the European card payments industry have joined together in the "Berlin Group" standardisation initiative to deliver the first common standard for the clearing of card…
Read more →The Euro Alliance of Payment Schemes (EAPS) is a joint initiative by European Payment Schemes, enabling European cardholders and retailers to make card payments and cash withdrawals with…
Read more →The Berlin Group is publishing today the new version 3.0 of its Card Transaction Message Standard for the Acquirer/Issuer interface. The new version incorporates the processing of special…
Read more →The Berlin Group is publishing today a White Paper on the status of the work of the Berlin Group as a standardisation initiative. In addition to an overview…
Read more →In February 2008 the Berlin Group had started to report on implementations of the Berlin Group interfaces in the European market. In the early reports, figures like connected…
Read more →The clearing of card based transactions through ACH based clearing methods is an important part of the domestic clearing volume in many countries throughout the SEPA region. The…
Read more →The Berlin Group Interface Specifications in version 2 are a stable specification as interfaces for bilateral card processing throughout Europe. They are used now for a while by…
Read more →The Berlin Group is currently working on several issues like a new release of the specifications which will support full credit card processing or the clearing of card…
Read more →In January 2008, the Berlin Group decided to publish the implementation status of Berlin Group Acquiring or Issuing Gateways in quarterly reports. The status report indicates running implementation…
Read more →In January 2008 the PAN Nordic Card Association (PNC), the organisation for banks working with payment cards in Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania, has…
Read more →National Payment Card Centre (NPCC) is a part of the National Bank of Serbia and is currently working on the development of the Serbian national payment card system…
Read more →Bulgarian interbank processor BORICA has confirmed its active participation to the Berlin Group. BORICA was established in 1993 by Bulgarian National Bank with the main objective to build…
Read more →Giro Bankcard cPlc. (GBC) was founded 15 years ago to build and operate IT systems supporting Hungarian domestic bankcard issuing and acquiring as well as settlement of transactions.…
Read more →MBU Ltd. was established at the initiative of Croatian banks in 1994 in purpose to provide comprehensive support in card business and electronic payments through its infrastructure -…
Read more →Based on the experiences from implementation projects the IP VPN Requirements have been revised and a complete set of documents for self-certification has been developed. Following the revision…
Read more →During 2006 the first European card processors have implemented the Berlin Group Interfaces. The implementation projects showed that some optimizations and clarifications within the clearing specifications would be…
Read more →In December BKM, the Interbank Card Center of 28 banks and financial institutions in Turkey, has confirmed its active participation in the work of the Berlin Group. BKM…
Read more →Laser Card Services Ltd., the company behind the only debit card scheme operating in the Republic of Ireland currently, has announced its decision to become a member of…
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On 19 November 2026, Berlin Group openFinance participates as speaker to the EMA 'Open Finance and Payments Summit 2026' in Kyiv, Ukraine. Date: 19 November 2026 More information:…
View event →On 9 October 2024, Berlin Group openFinance participates as speaker to the Raiffeisen Bank International 'Open Banking to Embedded Finance Summit' in Vienna Date: 9 October 2024 Time:…
View event →On 8 October 2024, a meeting of the openFinance Taskforce is organised at Raiffeisen Bank International in Vienna. Date: 8 October 2024 Time: 10:00 CET - 16:00 CET
View event →On 26 September 2023, a meeting of the openFinance Taskforce is organised at KIBS AD in Skopje. Date: 26 September 2023 Time: 10:00 CET - 16:00 CET
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View event →On 15 September 2020, a NextGenPSD2 Taskforce meeting is organised either as a webconference or a physical meeting in Lisbon (TBD). Date: 15 September 2020 Time: 10:00 CET…
View event →On 13 May 2020, a NextGenPSD2 Taskforce meeting is organised via webconference. Date: 13 May 2020 Time: 10:00 CET - 15:00 CET
View event →On 25 February 2020, JP Morgan will host the Berlin Group Plenary meeting in their premises at 25 Bank Street, Canary Wharf in London. Date: 25 February 2020…
View event →On 4 February 2020, Sopra Banking Software will host a NextGenPSD2 Advisory Group & Board meeting at their headoffice, 6 Avenue Kleber, 75116 Paris, France Date: 4 February…
View event →On 13 December 2019, Deutsche Bank will host a NextGenPSD2 Taskforce meeting in their premises at the Taunusanlage 12 in Frankfurt am Main, Germany Date: 13 December 2019…
View event →On 30 September 2019, adorsys GmbH & Co. KG will host a NextGenPSD2 Advisory Group & Board meeting at the Mercure Hotel Frankfurt Eschborn on Helfmann Park 1,…
View event →On 18 September 2019, Credorax Group will host a NextGenPSD2 Taskforce meeting in their Palazzo Homedes premises on 80 Strait Street, Valletta, Malta Date: 18 September 2019 Time:…
View event →On 9 July 2019, Accenture will host a NextGenPSD2 Advisory Board meeting at its Accenture Future Camp, Fraumünsterstr. 16, 8001 Zürich, Switzerland Date: 9 July 2019 Time: 10:00…
View event →On 6 June 2019, SRC Security Research & Consulting will host the Berlin Group Plenary meeting in their premises at the Emil-Nolde-Strasse 7 in Bonn Date: 6 June…
View event →On 15 May 2019, Finastra France will host a NextGenPSD2 Advisory Board meeting at their headoffice on 42 rue Washington, 75008 Paris, France Date: 15 May 2019 Time:…
View event →On 14 May 2019, Deutsche Bank will host a NextGenPSD2 Taskforce meeting in their French branch office on 23-25 avenue Franklin Roosevelt, 75008 Paris, France Date: 14 May…
View event →On 8 & 9 April 2019, Credorax Group will host a NextGenPSD2 API Experts meeting in their Malta office on 80 Strait Street, Palazzo Homedes, Valletta, Malta. Date:…
View event →On 27 February 2019, the Dutch Payments Association will host a NextGenPSD2 Taskforce meeting at the Crowne Plaza hotel, George Gershwinlaan 101, 1082 MT Amsterdam Date: 27 February…
View event →On 25 February 2020, JP Morgan will host the Berlin Group Plenary meeting in their premises at 25 Bank Street, Canary Wharf in London. Date: 25 February 2020…
View event →On 12 December 2018, the Deutscher Sparkassen- und Giroverband e.V. will host a NextGenPSD2 Taskforce meeting at the DSGV premises, Charlottenstraße 47, 10117 Berlin Date: 12 December 2018…
View event →On 30 October 2018, Mastercard will host the Berlin Group Plenary meeting in their premises at the Torre Cristal | Paseo de la Castellana 259-C, 11 in Madrid.…
View event →On 12 October 2018, KAL Limited will host a NextGenPSD2 Advisory Board meeting at the Radisson Collection Hotel, 1 George IV Bridge, EH1 1AD Edinburgh, United Kingdom Date:…
View event →On 7 September 2018, PSA Payment Services Austria will host a NextGenPSD2 Taskforce meeting at Hotel Das Triest, Wiedner Hauptstr. 12, Vienna, Austria. Date: 7 September 2018 Time:…
View event →On 30 May 2018, equensWorldline will host a NextGenPSD2 Taskforce meeting at the Worldline headquarter premises at River Ouest, 80 Quai Voltaire, 95870 Bezons (near Paris), France. Date:…
View event →On 21 March 2018, ETSI (the European Telecommunications Standards Institute) will host a NextGenPSD2 Taskforce meeting at their headquarter premises at 650 Route des Lucioles, Sophia Antipolis, France.…
View event →On 31 January 2018, SIA S.p.a. will host the Berlin Group Plenary meeting in their premises at the Via Francesco Gonin 36 in Milan. Date: 31 January 2018…
View event →On 24 January 2018, DNB Bank ASA will host a NextGenPSD2 Taskforce meeting in their premises at Dronning Eufemias gate 30, 0191 Oslo Date: 24 January 2018 Time:…
View event →On 30 November 2017, PSA Payment Services Austria GmbH will host a NextGenPSD2 Taskforce meeting at Hotel Das Triest, Wiedner Hauptstraße 12, 1040 Vienna Date: 30 November 2017…
View event →On 27 July 2017, the Banking & Payments Federation Ireland will host a NextGen PSD2 Taskforce meeting at the AIB Bankcentre, Ballsbridge, Dublin 4. Date: 27 July 2017…
View event →On 28 June 2017, SEB (Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken) will host a NextGen PSD2 Taskforce meeting in their premises at the Kungsträdgårdsgatan 8, 11147 Stockholm. Date: 28 June 2017…
View event →On 29 May 2017, SRC Security Research & Consulting will host a NextGen Mobile P2P Taskforce Conference call to discuss the recently agreed revisions to the Operational Rules…
View event →On 23 May 2017, Société Générale will host a NextGen PSD2 Taskforce meeting in their Les Dunes premises at the allée des Sablons 6, 94120 Fontenay sous Bois…
View event →On 24 April 2017, Deutsche Bank will host a NextGen PSD2 Taskforce meeting in their premises at the Taunusanlage 12 in Frankfurt. Date: 24 April 2017 Time: 10:00…
View event →On 5 April 2017, SRC Security Research & Consulting will host a NextGen Mobile P2P Taskforce meeting in their premises at Emil-Nolde-Straße 7 in Bonn. Date: 5 April…
View event →On 30 March 2017, Cartes Bancaires will host the Berlin Group Plenary meeting in their premises at the rue Saint-Honoré 151bis in Paris. Date: 30 March 2017 Time:…
View event →On 21 March 2017, the Dutch Payments Association will host a NextGen PSD2 Taskforce meeting in their premises at the Symphony Offices, Gustav Mahlerplein 33-35 in Amsterdam. Date:…
View event →On 23 February 2017, Bundesverband der Deutschen Volksbanken undRaiffeisenbanken e.V. will host a NextGen PSD2 Taskforce meeting in their premises at Schellingstraße 4 in Berlin. Date: 23 February…
View event →On 25 January 2017, SIA S.p.A. will host a NextGen PSD2 Taskforce meeting in their premises at Via Francesco Gonin 36 in Milan. Date: 25 January 2017 Time:…
View event →On 19 January 2017, Deutscher Sparkassen- und Giroverband will host a NextGen Mobile P2P Taskforce meeting in their premises at Charlottenstraße 47 in Berlin. Date: 19 January 2017…
View event →On 20 December 2016, Deutsche Bank AG will host a NextGen PSD2 Taskforce meeting in their premises at Taunusanlage 12 in Frankfurt. Date: 20 December 2016 Time: 10:00…
View event →On 28 November 2016, Redsys Processing Services S.L. will host a NextGen PSD2 Taskforce meeting in their premises at c/Francisco Sancha 12 in Madrid. Date: 28 November 2016…
View event →On 21 November 2016, SIA S.p.A. will host a NextGen Mobile P2P Taskforce meeting in their premises at Taunusanlage 1 in Frankfurt. Date: 21 November 2016 Time: 10:00…
View event →On 29 September 2016, Consorzio Bancomat will host the Berlin Group Plenary meeting in their premises at the Via delle Botteghe Oscure 4, Rome. Date: 29 September 2016…
View event →On 21 September 2016, DZ Bank AG will host a NextGen Mobile P2P Taskforce meeting in their premises at Platz der Republik in Frankfurt am Main. Date: 21…
View event →On 20 September 2016, DZ Bank AG will host a NextGen PSD2 Taskforce meeting in their premises at Platz der Republik in Frankfurt am Main. Date: 20 September…
View event →On 26 July 2016, Danske Bank A/S will host a NextGen Mobile P2P Taskforce meeting in their premises at Holmens Kanal 2 in Copenhagen. Date: 26 July 2016…
View event →On 13 July 2016, Bundesverband deutscher Banken e.V. will host a NextGen PSD2 Taskforce meeting in their premises at the Burgstraße 28, Berlin. Date: 13 July 2016 Time:…
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