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Categories Standards
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Created on Jun 11, 2025

Support Verification Of Payee (VOP) in EBICS

The EU Commission Instant Payment Regulation specifies that IBAN name verification, which must be carried out before the order is approved, must be mandatory for both SEPA credit transfers and real-time credit transfers, with a few exceptions. All of these points must be implemented 18 months after the regulation enters into force (i.e., by October 9, 2025). 

The implementation guide for EBICS (2025-04-11-IP_Reg_Implementation_Guide_EBICS-mAE.pdf) is available from https://www.ebics.de/de/ebics-standard/implementation-guide (only in German unfortunately) and relates to the German DFU Agreement Appendix 3 available (in English or German) from here: https://www.ebics.de/de/datenformate