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European financial institutions must comply with Verification Of Payee requirements by October 9, 2025.

For our entire industry, Verification Of Payee as a mandatory scheme is a new, still evolving concept.

Understanding its requirements and how the scheme will operate is already a challenge.

To help you navigate this challenge, we've created a quick 15min guided tour to Verification Of Payee

In this video, you will learn:

*   What is the VOP regulation and its associated scheme
*   How the VOP scheme works: through the end-to-end lifecycle of a VOP request
*   What are the challenges to VOP compliance


 VOP 101: your 15min guided tour to Verification Of Payee

Any fintech addressing the European market needs access to SEPA. Until 2025, EU fintechs had no choice but to work with partner banks to do so. The Instant Payments Regulation changed everything: payment and electronic money institutions can now directly connect to European payment systems.

In our next webinar, we unpack everything fintechs need to know before going direct:

*   What are the different models to participate in payment schemes
*   Non-bank direct access to payment systems: what does the regulation say?
*   Is it worth it to be direct participant? A look back at the UK example

Join us along with our outstanding guests:

*   [Myles Stephenson](https://www.linkedin.com/in/mylescstephenson/), Founder and CEO at Modulr
*   [Wim Grosemans](https://www.linkedin.com/in/wim-grosemans-839432/), Global Head of Product Management - Payments & Receivables - Cash Management at BNP Paribas
*   [Mike Chambers](https://www.linkedin.com/in/-mike-chambers-/), Senior Advisor at the UK Payment Systems Regulator


SEPA participation: should fintechs go direct? Learnings from the UK example

The payment industry is bracing for major evolutions in 2025. The Instant Payments Regulation will impact much more than instant payments themselves. The next wave of regulations supervising payment and electronic money institutions will be adopted.

We will unpack everything you need to know in our next webinar:

*   Is the industry ready for the enforcement of the Instant Payments Regulation?
*   Latest updates on Verification of Payee
*   Non-bank direct access to payment systems: what will be the eligibility criteria?
*   What will be left in PSD3 and the PSR?

Join us along with our outstanding guests on Wednesday, December 18 at 11am CET:

*   **Katja Heyder**, Head of User Relations at EBA CLEARING
*   **Pierre Hautenauve**, Director Retail Banking at Ailancy
*   **Fabrice Denèle,** Senior Vice President, Payments Partnerships at BPCE Payments


SEPA, PSD3 and instant payments: what to expect in 2025?

Starting January 2025, all European banks must support receiving SEPA instant payments. By October 2025, they must support Verification of Payee and sending instant payments.

Complying with these new requirements monopolises most bank tech and product resources. Between PSD2, this Instant Payments Regulation, and the upcoming PSD3 and PSR, the regulatory pace is intense. It leaves banks limited with few resources to innovate, improve the customer experience, and build value on top of the introduced changes.

Building from the right IT architecture changes the equation.

In this webinar, hosted by Simon Taylor, our expert panel will discuss how to comply with the upcoming Instant Payments Regulation and the next ones without renouncing innovation:

*   Summary of the Instant Payments Regulation and its impacts on banks
*   How to comply on time
*   Beyond instant payments: shifting IT resources from regulatory catch-up to innovation in the SEPA area

Join us along with our outstanding panel:

*   Simon Taylor (moderator), writer at Fintech Brain Food
*   Sylvie Calsacy, Lead Payments at OnePoint
*   Puneet Khanna, VP of Solution Consulting at Tuum
*   Édouard Mandon, Co-founder and CEO at Numeral


Instant payments and beyond: the path to ever-compliance

Payment systems and the regulations that shape them are constantly evolving, creating significant opportunities and new challenges for fintechs and bank teams.

2024 promises to be an especially packed year in that regard!

In this webinar, our expert panel will cover:

*   The latest news about the European instant payments legislation
*   The upcoming obligation of IBAN verification for all SEPA payments
*   How will PSD3 impact access to payment schemes for financial innovators
*   The delayed 2023 SEPA rulebook implementation

Join us along with our outstanding guests:

*   **Katja Heyder**, Head of User Relations at EBA CLEARING
*   **Francis De Roeck**, Member of the EPC Scheme Management Board and Head of Industry Engagement for Payments at BNP Paribas
*   **Pierre Hautenauve**, Senior Manager at Ailancy


SEPA, PSD3 and instant payments: what to expect in 2024?

Any fintech addressing the UK market needs access to Bacs and FPS.

By becoming Bacs and FPS participants, fintech companies can increase their control on payments and customer onboarding, reduce their payment costs and issue their own account numbers.

While not well known, indirect access is the most efficient way to become Bacs and FPS participant while keeping time-to-market, investments and operational costs down.

In this webinar, our panel will cover:

*   Why becoming a Bacs and FPS indirect participant
*   How the become a Bacs and FPS indirect participant
*   Choosing your sponsor bank

Join us alongside our expert panel to learn everything and Bacs and FPS indirect access:

*   Mike Chambers, payment expert, former CEO of Bacs, CHAPS and FPS
*   Kaspar Loog, Direct of Product Management at LHV


Why become a UK payment systems indirect participant

Payment resilience and continuity have always been the foundation of the services provided by payment and electronic money institutions to their customers. From collecting payments to paying their suppliers and employees’ salaries, payments are a critical part of every business and simply cannot break.

Yet, redundancy always comes with an opportunity cost and - until recently - **many fintechs were relying on a limited number of banking partners deemed reliable**. The recent bank fallouts have, however, highlighted that PSPs need to take a more proactive stance in diversifying their banking partner footprint earlier in their journey.

In this webinar, we explore **how successful fintech companies went multi-bank**:

*   What is the bar for payment resilience, and how to measure it
*   How to decide which partner banks to work with
*   Building a multi-bank payment stack and organisation

Join us alongside payments product and business leaders who are making conscious decisions about their banking footprint to future-proof their payment offers:

*   **Dan Wong**, Senior PM Core Banking @ TrueLayer
*   **Nirav Patel**, CEO @ Andaria Financial services
*   **Dimitri Rodrigues**, Chief Product Officer @ iBanFirst


Building resilient payment operations: how fintechs are embracing multi-banking

From BNPL to consumer credit to invoice factoring, any lending company has to build robust payment flows to make loans available to borrowers and collect instalments.

Payments are core to lending companies’ operations. As they grow, they might want to integrate more of the payment value chain to optimise costs and operations.

In this webinar, payment leaders of successful lending companies will share their experience as well as the dos and don’ts of building a best-in-class lending payment organisation, including:

*   Structuring your lending payment team
*   Choosing the best lending payment stack
*   Hiring the right people


Building your lending payment organisation

**From account top-ups to bill payments,** fintech scale-up Spendesk manages billions of euros of corporate spendings for their thousands of customers each year.

Spendesk started its payment journey as an agent of a banking-as-a-service provider but realised that with scale, it needed more controls over its SEPA payments.

To build payment operations supporting its growth, it decided to increase control by becoming a SEPA participant.

Learn how.

In this webinar, our panel will cover:

*   Why becoming a SEPA participant
*   The different steps to become a SEPA participant
*   How to do it right

Join us along our expert panel:

*   **Axel Cateland**, CEO at Spendesk Financial Services
*   **Didier Darmouni**, Director Business Development at BPCE Payments
*   **Laurent Sodigné**, payments expert and Senior Partner at Melan Consulting

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###### *About Numeral: *[*Numeral*](https://www.numeral.io/)* is a payment operations platform making building payment products on top of banks easy. By exposing a single API across banks and payment methods, Numeral helps companies streamline their payments through real-time connectivity to their existing banks, robust automation, and built-in controls.*


Spendesk’s journey from BaaS agent to SEPA participant

SEPA payments are ever evolving and new SEPA rulebooks are published every year, creating opportunities and challenges for companies, payment operations teams, and banks.

2023 will be no different.

In this webinar, our panel will cover:

*   How the SEPA rulebook coming into effect in 2023 will affect payment systems
*   The latest improvements in SEPA credit transfer, SEPA instant credit transfer, and SEPA direct debit
*   The European Commission’s policy proposal to accelerate the adoption of SEPA instant payments
*   What to expect from SEPA request-to-pay in 2023

Join us along with our outstanding guests: **Jean-Paul Megue**, payment expert and author of the number one book about SEPA Credit Transfer, and **Francis De Roeck**, Head of Industry Engagement for Payments at BNP Paribas.

The event will be hosted by **Victor Mithouard**, VP Marketing at Numeral.

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###### *About Numeral: *[*Numeral*](https://www.numeral.io)* is a payment operations platform making building payment products on top of banks easy. By exposing a single API across banks and payment methods, Numeral helps companies streamline their payments through real-time connectivity to their existing banks, robust automation, and built-in controls.*
