White 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…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
DetailsNPCC from Serbia joins the Berlin Group 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 – DinaCard. DinaCard system was founded in 2003, in close cooperation between the National Bank of Serbia and commercial banks.…
DetailsBORICA joins the Berlin Group 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 a national infrastructure for card payments in the country. BORICA is owned by Bulgarian National Bank and 22 local banks and as…
DetailsGiro Bankcard cPlc. joins the Berlin Group 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. GBC has been acquired by Societa per i Servizi Bancari S.p.A. (SSB) in January 2007 and it operates as a…
DetailsVersion 2.0 of IP VPN Requirements and Self-Certification Requirements published 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 of the IP VPN Specifications by the IP VPN Task Force of the Berlin Group, Version 2.0…
DetailsMBU, the Croatian interbank processor, has confirmed its active participation in the Berlin Group 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 – MB/NET/, based on state of the art technology and solutions implemented and certified…
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