Milan, Italy
22 May 2008

SEPA: Banks Are Building It, But Will Corporate Customers Come?

Table of Contents

Return to report Abstract

Executive Summary 3
Why Should It Matter? 5
Corporations Know Very Little About SEPA 7
  Pros 11
  Cons 13
Banks Are Doing the Bare Minimum, Trying to Find ROI 17
Impact of SEPA on the Supply Chain 23
IT Vendors Following a Wait and See Approach 27
Regulators and Banks: Not in My Back Yard 32
What Comes Next? 35
Appendix One: Basics of SEPA 42
Appendix Two: Stakeholders 47
  Banks 47
  IT Vendors 51
  SAP 53
  Clear2Pay 57
  Corporations 63
 

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