Bank payments kick into high gear

Let’s just say that Spuerkeess customers have known about instant payments for years now. At least when it comes to making transfers from one Spuerkeess current account to another, which take place immediately, 24/7, 365 days a year. Eurotransfert credit transfers make up the vast majority of credit payments carried out by our customers. The real novelty for our customers will be expanding their options to include instant credit transfers in EUR to third-party banks, provided that the banks in question can be accessed in the instant payment system (TIPS or RT1).

So the big revolution is that banks in SEPA Single Euro Payments Area member countries  (EU, United Kingdom, Norway, Liechtenstein, Iceland, Switzerland  Monaco, San Marino, Andorra and Vatican) have created and adopted a common system making it possible to perform EUR-denominated credit transfers in real time between them.

Actually, nothing will change for our customers. They simply enter their Eurotransfert credit transfers as usual, via S-Net or S-Net Mobile, and the system automatically detects if the order can be processed as an “Instant Payment.” If so, the beneficiary’s account is credited in less than 10 seconds, even at night, on week-ends and on bank holidays.

Not with Spuerkeess! For us, it’s the standard.

In other words, there will be no additional cost charged on top of the applicable Eurotransfert fee. Customers with the Axxess or Zebra banking package enjoy free Eurotransfert electronic credit transfers, and the same is true for instant payments.

Yes, in addition to being able to carry out credit transfers 24/7, 365 days a year, there are other limits set on amounts. For Spuerkeess customers, the cap for Eurotransfert outgoing credit transfers is EUR 250,000. However, an outgoing Eurotransfert credit transfer is only eligible for “Instant Payment” execution if it is limited to EUR 100,000. This limit, which is standard for the system established by all participating banks, applies to incoming and outgoing payments.