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STEP2-T

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Pan-European automated clearing house for SEPA Credit Transfers and SEPA Direct Debits. Classified as a Systemically Important Payment System (SIPS) by the ECB. Processes SCT, SDD Core, and SDD B2B. Uses Continuous Gross Settlement (CGS) mechanism since 2020, settling in T2 central bank money.

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Record · STEP2-T

Country
Eurozone (EU)
Currency
Euro (EUR)
Operator
EBA Clearing
Type
ACH
Operating Window
07:00–16:00 UTC · Mon–Fri
Year Established
2003
Tier?
Tier 1
ISO 20022?
Native
Region
Europe
Settlement Type
Gross (CGS)
Participants
237 direct; 4,800+ reachable PSPs
Avg Daily Transactions
~68.9M (Aug 2026; SCT 24.1M + SDD Core 44.5M + SDD B2B ~0.38M)
Avg Daily Value
~€96.3B (Aug 2026; SCT €84B + SDD Core €8.3B + SDD B2B €4B)
Availability
TARGET business days
Notes

Danish community chose EBA Clearing's STEP2 for bulk payments in Danish kroner (announced 16 June 2026); STEP2 DKK service go-live November 2026, full migration from existing Danish clearing by April 2027. FPAD VOP: 55+ RT1 and STEP2 participants across 14 countries preparing to adopt verification of payee for IPR compliance, representing over 40% of STEP2/RT1 traffic. CBI (Italy) launched Request to Pay for corporates supported by EBA Clearing and Nexi (17 June 2026). No EBA Clearing press releases have been issued since 17 June 2026.

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Reference Sources
EBA Clearing
Authoritative (T1)Entry recorded Mar 12, 2026
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Products on this rail
SEPA Direct Debit Coredirect debit
European Payments Council (EPC)
SEPA Direct Debit B2Bdirect debit
European Payments Council (EPC)
SEPA Credit Transfercredit transfer
European Payments Council (EPC)
Other systems in the same country or region
T2 / TARGETRTGS
Eurozone · EUR · ECB / Eurosystem
SEPA SCTACH
Eurozone · EUR · EPC / CSMs
SEPA SDDACH
Eurozone · EUR · EPC / CSMs
SEPA InstFPS
Eurozone · EUR · EPC / RT1 / TIPS
EURO1Hybrid
Eurozone · EUR · EBA Clearing
CHAPSRTGS
United Kingdom · GBP · Bank of England

Operations · STEP2-T

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Intelligence for STEP2-T (17)

Coverage whose headline or summary names STEP2-T, or names its operator or country together with its system type. Each item quotes that evidence and says whether the source is the STEP2-T operator or external.

NewsSep 15, 2026Headline names “STEP2”
STEP2 SCT Averaged 24.1 Million Daily Payments in August
STEP2 SDD Core collections averaged 44,457,183 a day in the same month, EBA Clearing's statistics page shows.
Operator source · EBA Clearing STEP2 SCT Statistics
AnalysisJun 30, 2026Summary names “STEP2”
Bulgaria Retires BISERA6 and Blink as Euro Adoption Shifts Payment Traffic to TARGET and TIPS
Bulgaria's accession to the eurozone on January 1, 2026 retired its domestic RTGS, batch clearing, and instant payment systems. All payment traffic now settles through the Eurosystem's T2, STEP2, and TIPS platforms.
External source · European Payments Council
NewsJun 18, 2026Headline names “STEP2”
Danish Banking Community Selects EBA Clearing's STEP2 for Krone Batch Payments
STEP2 currently processes over 70 million euro-denominated SEPA transactions daily for more than 4,800 payment service providers across SEPA countries.
Operator source · EBA Clearing
AnalysisJun 15, 2026Headline names “STEP2”
STEP2 Credit Transfer Volumes Run Below 2025 Levels Through May While Direct Debit Processing Accelerates
The SCT volume decline at STEP2 coincides with accelerating instant credit transfer adoption across the euro area.
Operator source · EBA Clearing STEP2 SCT Statistics
NewsJun 10, 2026Summary names “STEP2”
EBA Clearing Releases FPAD White Paper Ahead of PSR Transaction Monitoring Mandates
STEP2's operator issued a formal compliance guide explaining how its fraud detection service maps to the transaction monitoring and information sharing requirements set out in the forthcoming Payment Services Regulation.
Operator source · EBA Clearing
AnalysisMay 28, 2026Headline names “STEP2”
STEP2 Direct Debit Services Grow Through Europe's Instant Payment Transition
ECB payment statistics for the first half of 2025 recorded 11.3 billion direct debit transactions in the euro area. Volume grew 2.3 percent year-on-year. Value increased 6.2 percent to €5.6 trillion.
Operator source · EBA Clearing
AnalysisMay 25, 2026Summary names “STEP2”
KIR 2025: Express Elixir Sustains 21 Percent Growth While Batch Volumes Plateau
Express Elixir's 21 percent growth in 2025 outpaced batch Elixir's 5 percent value gain, a divergence that mirrors STEP2 and Bankgirot volume declines across European batch clearing systems.
External source · KIR
AnalysisMay 18, 2026Summary names “STEP2”
SEPA Direct Debits Resist Instant Payment Substitution as Batch Credit Transfers Decline Across 2026
STEP2 batch credit transfer volumes have fallen year-on-year in every month of 2026. SEPA Direct Debit Core volumes grew 2.6 percent year-on-year in April 2026, demonstrating that mandate-based recurring payments face different competitive dynamics than one-off credit transfers.
Operator source · EBA Clearing
AnalysisMay 14, 2026Summary names “STEP2”
KIR April 2026 Data Shows Poland's Batch Payments Holding Steady as Instant Grows
KIR's April 2026 statistics show batch Elixir volumes declining just 1% year-on-year while Express Elixir instant payments grow 10%, a contrast with the 5.5% decline in SEPA-wide STEP2 credit transfer volumes driven by instant payment migration.
External source · KIR (Krajowa Izba Rozliczeniowa)
NewsMay 13, 2026Headline names “STEP2”
STEP2 Credit Transfer Volumes Fall 5.5 Percent in April as Instant Migration Accelerates
Average daily SCT value held at EUR 94 billion, marginally above EUR 93 billion a year earlier. STEP2 SDD Core averaged 47.3 million daily transactions, up 2.6% from 46.1 million in April 2025.
Operator source · EBA Clearing
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Wider coverage that mentions STEP2-T (6)

These articles mention STEP2-T in their text but not in their headline or summary, so they are listed as context rather than as STEP2-T intelligence.

AnalysisApr 17, 2026Text mentions “STEP2”
European Batch Credit Transfers Contract as Instant Alternatives Accelerate
Instant payment alternatives continued absorbing batch credit transfer volume. Poland's Express Elixir processed 60 million transactions in March 2026, the first month exceeding that threshold.
External source · Bankgirot
AnalysisMar 26, 2026Text mentions “STEP2”
Western Balkans SEPA Accession Cuts Cross-Border Payment Costs Tenfold in First Five Months
World Bank data published 25 March 2026 shows business-to-business cross-border payment costs fell by up to 92 percent in Albania, Montenegro, and North Macedonia in the five months since SEPA accession in October 2025, with Montenegro recording a drop from EUR 73.40 to EUR 6.15 per transaction.
External source · World Bank
AnalysisMar 24, 2026Text mentions “STEP2”
Verification of Payee Reaches 2,700 PSPs Six Months After Europe's Mandatory Rollout
Six months after Europe's Verification of Payee mandate took effect, the scheme has scaled to 2,700 PSPs and 55 routing mechanisms. The EPC's March 2026 rulebook update addresses initial deployment challenges while EBA Clearing's fraud detection overlay reaches 55 participants across 14 countries. With non-eurozone EEA obligations arriving in July 2027, VoP's next expansion phase will test cross-border name matching at pan-European scale.
External source · European Payments Council
AnalysisMar 22, 2026Text mentions “STEP2”
PSD3 and PSR: What Changes for European Payments and When
The two-instrument framework splits payment regulation into a directly applicable regulation governing conduct and fraud prevention, and a directive covering licensing that merges the electronic money regime. Most provisions take effect 18 months after Official Journal publication, with payee verification following at 24 months.
External source · European Parliament Press Release
AnalysisMar 19, 2026Text mentions “STEP2”
RT1 Daily Settlement Values Triple Through 2025 as Instant Payments Shift Toward Corporate Use
EBA Clearing statistics reveal that RT1 average daily settlement values rose from 2.4 billion euros in January 2025 to 7 billion euros in December 2025, a 192 percent increase that far outpaced the 67 percent growth in transaction volumes over the same period. The October 2025 inflection point, when the IPR sending mandate and SCT Inst maximum amount increase took effect simultaneously, marks the moment instant payments began moving from a predominantly consumer channel to a corporate payment rail.
Operator source · EBA Clearing RT1 SCT Inst Statistics
GuideMar 11, 2026Text mentions “STEP2”
DNS, RTGS, and Hybrid Settlement: How Payment Systems Actually Clear and Settle
Understanding these models is essential for anyone working in payments - whether you are integrating with a new market's infrastructure, evaluating settlement risk, or simply trying to understand why a payment "cleared" but hasn't "settled.".
External source · BIS CPMI
Not listed here: 2 tagged articles that do not mention STEP2-T. All coverage is in Insights.