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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8436

4 April 2003
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/financial services
European banks adopt agreements to reduce management costs of cross-border payments

Brussels, 03/04/2003 (Agence Europe) - The European Payments Council, composed of three European banking associations, has reached several agreements to facilitate the implementation of the regulation on cross-border payments for transfers between accounts, as of 1 July. The regulation, which entered into force in July 2002 for payments by card, forces banks to apply the same tariffs for national and cross-border payments.

The European Payments Council was set up one year ago by the Banking...

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