Single European Payment Area (SEPA)
New Facility: PNBIL has a new Euro payment capability to offer
SEPA: A defined financial area where banks and their clients can make payments to each other in Euros as if it is one domestic country.
Required Information: Beneficiary's Name, Address, IBAN (International Bank Account No.) and SWIFT BIC (Bank Identifier Code).
SEPA: Comprises of 16 Eurozone EU countries, 11 Non-Erozone EU, 3 European Economic Area (EEA) countries and territories considered to be part of the EU or use the Euro by agreement with the EU.
Faster Euro Transfer: The remitter bank can take upto three days to remit funds until the year 2012, after which they will have to remit within one day.
Cut-off Time: Request recieved up to 12:00 - beneficiary will receive funds next business day. After 12:00 a day later.
Low Cost: €5 for per SEPA Credit Transfer as against €20 for making a normal Euro international payment.
Recieving Funds: Inform remitter your PNBIL IBAN, SWIFT BIC PUNBGB22 and request the remitting bank to make a SEPA Credit Transfer/domestic instead of international payment.
How Many Banks: 4458 banks have now adhered to the SCT Scheme which represents over 98% of all banks in the region.
SEPA Countries
EU Eurozone: Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, France, Finland, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Portugal, Slovak Republic, Slovenia and Spain.
EU Non-Eurozone: Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Great Britain, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania and Sweden.
EEA: Liechtenstein, Iceland and Norway EU Territories: Martinique, Guadeloupe, French Guiana, Réunion, Gibraltar, Azores, Madeira, Canary Islands, Ceuta and Melilla and Åland Islands.
By Agreement: Switzerland, Mayotte and Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon, Monaco, Vatican City and San Marino.
Note: The Principality of Andorra, Montenegro and Kosovo are not SEPA territories even though they use the Euro as their official currency.
PNBIL is a UK incorporated banking subsidiary of Punjab National Bank, India (PNB). PNBIL is Authorized and Regulated by the Financial Services Authority. PNBIL is a member of the Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) and the Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS). PNBIL is authorised for accepting deposits by the Financial Services Authority (FSA).
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