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SEPA Credit Transfer Deep Dive

D05 Domestic payment systems · 7 lessons

Version 1.1 | Last reviewed 2026-11-05

Message flows, exchange periods and the 2024 transition

SEPA credit transfer deep dive: message flows, exchange periods and the 2024 transition, under the SCT rulebook.

What You Can Do After This Chapter

Learning objective. Learner explains the SCT four-corner model, reads ISO 20022 message names, and traces a EUR 48,250 payment from pain.001 through pacs.008 to camt.053, including exchange periods, cut-off times, and the 2019 message transition.

Practical assessment. Learner receives a case where Loire Components must pay EUR 48,250 to Rhine Metals, then drafts the pain.001 file, the pacs.008 message, and the pain.002 and pacs.002 reports, including a camt.056 cancellation and a camt.029 answer, with realistic references, value dates and cut-off times. Learner also explains the SCT Inst mandate, the SEPA area, and the 2019 message changes in a short note.

Expected deliverables.

Completion criterion. Learner drafts a correct pain.001 and pacs.008 for the EUR 48,250 payment, explains each status report, and handles the camt.056 cancellation and the SCT Inst rules accurately.

In this chapter
  1. The Four-Corner SCT Model and the EUR 48,250 Worked Example
  2. Reading ISO 20022 Names: pain, pacs and camt Explained
  3. Customer to Bank Space: pain.001, pain.002 and the Exchange Periods
  4. Interbank Space: pacs.008, pacs.002 and pacs.004 Step by Step
  5. Exceptions and Investigations: camt.056, camt.029 and pacs.004 Returns
  6. Customer Reporting and the SEPA 2024 Transition to 2019 Messages
  7. SCT Inst Becomes Mandatory, Schemes, Instruments and the SEPA Area Map

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