News Archive

  1. 26-01-2012Deutsche Bundesbank and Equens have begun exchanging SEPA Payments

  2. 25-01-2012Equens is ready for bulk migration towards SEPA

  3. 17-01-20121st SCT transaction exchanged with Borica-Bankservice

  4. 01-12-2011Equens participates in public-private approach to cybercrime

    Press release (NL)

  5. 04-10-2011PaySquare enables e-commerce payments in 30 currencies

    Press release (NL)

  6. 20-09-2011YourCash and Equens launch ATM services in Belgium

    Press release (UK)

  7. 19-09-201110th inter-CSM agreement for Equens with Bulgarian ACH

    Press release (UK)

  8. 19-09-2011Equens opens branch office in London

    Press release (UK)

  9. 05-08-2011Equens strengthens position in Switzerland

  10. 14-07-2011Processed SEPA transactions tripled since 2010

  11. 07-07-2011Raet and Equens partner for transition to SEPA

    Press release (UK) Press release (DE) Press release (NL) Press release (ITA)

  12. 24-06-2011Equens named Top Employer for 3rd time

  13. 09-06-2011Romanian TransFonD to connect to Equens' CSM community

  14. 09-06-2011Mizuho Corporate Bank connected to Equens

  15. 31-05-2011Equens becomes a member of GlobalPlatform

  16. 09-05-2011Out now: 2nd EQ Magazine

    2nd EQ Magazine

  17. 28-02-2011CEDICAM and Equens start commercial partnership

    Press release (UK) Press release (DE) Press release (NL) Press release (ITA) Press release (FR)

  18. 22-02-2011Equens offers acquirers and banks a new terminal solution

    Press release (UK) Press release (DE) Press release (ITA) Press release (NL)

  19. 22-02-2011Equens offers easy, low-cost SEPA Direct Debit Bank Modules

  20. 10-01-2011Equens processes more than 100 million SEPA transactions in 2010

  21. 04-01-2011Italian Equens S.p.A. fully integrated into Equens Group

    Press release ICBPI (UK)

  22. 27-12-2010Large number of electronic payments processed

  23. 10-12-2010Record: 2 billionth PIN transaction in 2010

    Press release Currence (NL) / PDF

  24. 30-11-2010Two new records already set

  25. 23-11-2010First SCT payments processed between KIR and Equens

  26. 22-11-2010Subsidiary montrada extends business to Poland

  27. 26-10-2010ABN AMRO and Equens renew transaction processing agreement

    Press release (UK) Press release (DE) Press release (NL)

  28. 26-10-2010Equens and SECB extend agreement on interoperability to SDD

    Press release (UK) Press release (DE) Press release (NL)

  29. 25-10-2010Transatlantic collaboration launches new international payments service

    Press release (UK) Press release (DE) Press release (NL)

  30. 25-10-2010Bundesbank and Equens will start exchanging SEPA payments

    Press release (UK) Press release (DE) Press release (NL)

  31. 14-10-2010Acquisition of montrada GmbH finalised

  32. 07-09-2010Equens acquires German card company montrada GmbH

    Equens press release (UK) Press release (DE) Press release (NL) Press release Commerzbank (DE)

  33. 27-08-2010Equens processes 100 millionth SEPA transaction

  34. 01-08-2010Important milestone for Equens CSM

  35. 06-07-2010KIR S.A. and Equens SE will start exchanging SEPA payments

    Press release (UK)

  36. 06-07-2010Successful exchange of SEPA Direct Debits between Banca d'Italia/ICBPI and Equens

  37. 25-06-2010Equens named Top Employer for 2nd time

    Press release (NL)

  38. 10-06-2010Equens issues and processes its first contactless payments

    Press release (NL) Press release (UK)

  39. 28-05-2010Out now: first edition of EQ Magazine

  40. 29-04-2010WestLB and Equens cooperate in SEPA Payment processing

  41. 30-03-2010SEPA-FAST Specification Finalised - One Card Payment Terminal for Europe

  42. 08-03-2010Foundation of the IPF Association

    Press release (UK)

  43. 04-03-2010Equens' representative elected as Vice-Chairman of the Board PayComm

  44. 20-01-2010Equens supports Haiti victims

  45. 24-12-2009Record number of electronic payments processed

  46. 08-12-2009St. Nicholas transaction record

  47. 25-11-2009Crédit Agricole and Equens negotiate partnership in card and payment processing

    Press release (UK) Press release (DE) Press release (FR) Press release (NL)

  48. 03-11-2009Equens processes first SEPA Direct Debit payments

  49. 28-10-2009Equens short listed for the Payment processing Award

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  50. 27-10-2009Equens joins EPASOrg to establish interoperability in card payments

    Press release (UK) Press release (DE) Press release (NL)

  51. 16-09-2009SECB Swiss Euro Clearing Bank GmbH and Equens SE sign agreement on Interoperability

    Announcement

  52. 15-09-2009Equens and VocaLink extend SEPA Credit Transfer interoperability agreement to SEPA Direct Debits

    Press release (UK) Press release (DE) Press release (NL)

  53. 14-09-2009Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, Ltd. selects Equens SE for SEPA payment processing

  54. 17-07-2009SEPA-FAST terminal specification available for consultation

  55. 08-07-2009Connection with OeNB extends network for SEPA payments

  56. 30-06-2009Out now: first Equens Annual Magazine

    Magazine

  57. 25-06-2009Equens offers banks an economical solution to become SDD compliant

  58. 25-06-2009‘Best Card Processor of the Year’ award

  59. 19-06-2009Equens named ‘Top IT Employer’

    Press release (NL)

  60. 20-05-2009Joint statement of infrastructures promoting the SEPA progress

    Press release (UK)

  61. 09-04-2009Federal Reserve Banks and Equens start strategic partnership

  62. 19-02-2009Equens will process SDD payments for SEB

  63. 27-01-2009Banque Raiffeisen SC of Luxembourg selects Equens SE for its SEPA payment processing

  64. 29-12-2008Record number of electronic payments processed

    Press release (NL)

  65. 16-09-2008International e-invoicing pilot

    Press release (UK) Press release (DE) Press release (NL)

  66. 15-09-2008ICBPI Group and Equens jointly establish Equens Italia

    Press release (UK) Press release (DE) Press release (NL)

  67. 09-09-2008Prompt money transfer through Equens' parcel settlement

  68. 09-09-2008Equens further expands its payments network within Europe

  69. 08-09-2008Press release IBM Extreme Blue

    Press release (UK) Press release (NL)

  70. 31-07-2008Societas Europaea (SE) reflects European ambitions of Equens

    Press release (UK) Press release (DE) Press release (NL)

  71. 15-07-2008Equens Annual Report 2007 published

    Annual report

  72. 04-07-2008Press release Equens' subsidiary PaySquare

    Press release (UK) Press release (NL)

  73. 23-06-2008Press release OP-Pohjola Group and Equens

    Press release (UK) Press release (DE) Press release (NL)

  74. 17-06-2008Press release Albert Heijn and Equens on fingertip payment pilot

    Press release (UK) Press release (DE) Press release (NL)

  75. 10-06-2008Changes in Equens' Supervisory Board

  76. 30-05-2008Search for experienced professionals

    Press release (UK) Press release (NL)

  77. 27-05-2008Openway, Fujitsu and Equens sign agreements for new Acquiring Back office

  78. 03-05-2008DBF and Equens close deal on Cultuurkaart

    Press release (NL)

  79. 29-04-2008Equens participates in International Payments Framework

    Press release (UK)

  80. 24-04-2008Press release BHOLD on agreement with Equens

  81. 08-04-2008Equens started bilateral exchange of payments with Iberpay and Seceti

    Press release (UK)

  82. 08-04-2008Equens passes 1,000,000 SEPA transaction mark

  83. 18-02-2008Equens connected to TARGET2

  84. 05-02-2008Number of SEPA payments processed by Equens takes enormous flight

    Press release (UK) Press release (DE) Press release (NL)

  85. 28-01-2008Equens processes first SEPA Credit Transfer payments

    Press release (UK)

  86. 27-12-2007Large number of Christmas payments processed

  87. 12-12-2007Equens clearly displays client-orientation

  88. 11-12-2007Protocol for payment transactions under management of C-TAP authority

    Press release (NL)

  89. 03-12-2007Large number of St Nicholas payments processed

  90. 03-10-2007Fortis selects Equens for its SEPA payment clearing activities

    Press release (UK)

  91. 01-10-2007Five leading CSMs announce Interoperability ahead of SEPA

    Press release (UK) Press release (DE) Press release (NL)

  92. 27-09-2007Equens and ICBPI Group join forces

  93. 14-09-2007Equens Nederland contracts Eurofiber

    Press release NL

  94. 14-09-2007New: Prepaid Pluscard

  95. 01-09-2007Release of Interoperability Framework 3.0

  96. 28-08-2007Large pilot for mobile payments started

    Press release (NL)

  97. 02-08-2007Equens involved in large pilot for mobile payments

  98. 13-06-2007Dutch banks introduce new system for urgent payments succesfully

  99. 06-06-2007Equens will join SWIFT SEPA Testing

  100. 06-06-2007EBALink extended to SEPA

  101. 01-06-2007Equens and Italian Seceti collaborate on SEPA

    Press release (UK) Press release (DE) Press release (NL)

  102. 16-05-2007Equens processes the first V PAY transaction

  103. 16-05-2007Equens expands business to Finland

  104. 02-05-20071st Equens Annual report published

  105. 19-04-2007Equens at EPCA

  106. 27-03-2007Outsourcing mainframe services and office automation to Atos Origin

    Press release (UK) Press release (NL)

  107. 09-03-2007Single platform for pan-European payments’ data exchange

    Press release (UK)

  108. 06-03-2007WorkSphere outsourcing partner for building maintenance and management

    Press release (UK) Press release (NL)

  109. 06-03-2007The Netherlands and Germany connect payment systems

  110. 27-02-2007SAS 70 Type II report proves ensured quality

  111. 19-02-2007KPN outsourcing partner for Equens’ telephony

    Press release (UK) Press release (NL)

  112. 14-02-2007eBIF and EIC signed Collaboration Agreement

  113. 26-01-2007ABN AMRO chooses Equens for SEPA cards payment services

  114. 09-01-2007Michael Steinbach appointed Chairman of the Board of Directors

    Press release (UK) Press release (DE) Press release (NL)

  115. 20-12-2006eBIF conference press release

    Press release (UK)

  116. 12-12-2006Establishment of Equens officially completed

    Press release (UK) Press release (DE) Press release (NL)

  117. 28-11-2006Advisory Report on Electronic Patient Record well received

  118. 15-02-2006Interpay and Transaktionsinstitut sign Memorandum of Understanding to establish merger

    Press release (NL)