Public Consultation for SEPA Card Clearing 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 based transactions resulting in the “SEPA Card Clearing Framework” (SCC Framework). The SCC Framework is a big step to making the…
View detailsEAPS joins the Berlin Group 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 payment card across Europe’s national boundaries. The objective of the EAPS is to enable participating schemes to offer their member banks a…
View detailsVersion 3.0 of the Berlin Group Standard published 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 transactions as identified by the EPC cards standarisation document just published, known as “Volume”, and is compliant to the…
View detailsWhite Paper on Berlin Group Work and Workplan 2009 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 of the work, this document also gives an outlook on the work of the initiative for 2009. Main…
View detailsNew Form of Quarterly Reports 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 terminals or cards have been published, too. The Berlin Group has now changed this policy and will report in future on the…
View detailsWhite Paper on SEPA Card Clearing 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 SEPA payment infrastructure defined by EPC does not support yet the clearing of card based transactions. The Berlin Group has started…
View detailsChange Management Procedure defined 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 different processors, compare the implementation status report on this web site. Therefore, change requests on these specifications between two releases of the specification…
View detailsWorkplan 2008 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 transactions via the new SEPA clearing infrastructure. Following the aims of transparency to the market, the Berlin Group is now publishing a detailed workplan for…
View detailsQuarterly Reports on Implementation Status 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 projects, the processors involved and the number of POS terminals, ATMs and cards connected to the corresponding Berlin Group Gateways in production.…
View detailsPAN Nordic Card Association joins the Berlin Group 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 confirmed its active participation in the work of the Berlin Group. PNC participates already since May 2007 in the…
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