{"id":35445,"date":"2013-03-10T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-09T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archief.betaalvereniging.nl\/?p=35445"},"modified":"2019-05-27T11:14:45","modified_gmt":"2019-05-27T09:14:45","slug":"ideal-ready-for-sepa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archief.betaalvereniging.nl\/en\/actueel\/nieuws\/ideal-ready-for-sepa\/","title":{"rendered":"iDEAL ready for SEPA"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-intro\">\n<p>Easy connection to iDEAL for foreign banks and payment institutions.<\/p>\n<p>The online payment method iDEAL is ready for the European payment market. All the banks that offer iDEAL have recently completed the migration process of converting iDEAL to the European (SEPA) standards. This marks an important step towards a uniform European payment infrastructure. The SEPA regulation obliges all banks and users of payment services to meet the European standards by 1 February 2014 at the latest. With the migration of the system iDEAL has already fulfilled this requirement, making it easier for foreign providers to connect to iDEAL.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>Up to now, the iDEAL system was based on transfers between Dutch bank account numbers. As a result, a bank or payment institution had to be connected to the Dutch payment infrastructure. This is no longer necessary. With the introduction of the SEPA standards, a European infrastructure has been created in which domestic and foreign transfers take place in the same way. This enables foreign providers to participate more easily in the iDEAL payment process.<\/p>\n<p>In the coming months, webshops and other organisations that accept iDEAL as a method of payment should adapt their systems. They have until 1 August 2013 to implement these adjustments.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Currence anticipates more foreign parties for iDEAL<\/strong><br \/>\nAlthough iDEAL is already accepted in many foreign webshops, Currence anticipates that the SEPA-compatible version of iDEAL will ensure that more foreign parties will offer iDEAL. This expands the opportunities for consumers to easily and securely pay for their cross-border purchases online.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Easy connection to iDEAL for foreign banks and payment institutions. The online payment method iDEAL is ready for the European payment market. All the banks that offer iDEAL have recently completed the migration process of converting iDEAL to the European (SEPA) standards. This marks an important step towards a uniform European payment infrastructure. The SEPA regulation obliges all banks and users of payment services to meet the European standards by 1 February 2014 at the latest. With the migration of the system iDEAL has already fulfilled this requirement, making it easier for foreign providers to connect to iDEAL. Up to now, the iDEAL system was based on transfers between Dutch bank account numbers. As a result, a bank or payment institution had to be connected to the Dutch payment infrastructure. This is no longer necessary. With the introduction of the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5847,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-35445","post","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-press-releases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archief.betaalvereniging.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archief.betaalvereniging.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archief.betaalvereniging.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archief.betaalvereniging.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archief.betaalvereniging.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35445"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archief.betaalvereniging.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35466,"href":"https:\/\/archief.betaalvereniging.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35445\/revisions\/35466"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archief.betaalvereniging.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archief.betaalvereniging.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}