SEPA Credit Transfer – Payment Timelines
Summarizes the rulebook and operational deadlines for exchanging key SEPA Credit Transfer messages around settlement day.
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Summarizes the rulebook and operational deadlines for exchanging key SEPA Credit Transfer messages around settlement day.
Explains how an earlier SEPA transfer may be recalled and distinguishes unsettled, positively answered, and negatively answered recall paths.
Shows how a beneficiary PSP sends a pacs.004 along the reverse route when a settled SEPA transfer cannot be completed.
Describes who can reject an SCT before inter-PSP settlement, why rejection occurs, and how status travels back to the originator.
Follows a successful SCT from customer initiation through originator PSP, clearing mechanism, beneficiary PSP, and final account credit.
Introduces the SCT four-corner model and the roles of the originator, originator PSP, beneficiary PSP, and beneficiary.