What is EBICS – a Boring or Useful Reading?
We read an interesting overview of EBICS, which the author on SEPA for Corporates calls “the most boring article on EBICS” – we’ll let you decide for yourselves. Here is the brief on these topics:
- EBICS is the Electronic Banking Internet Communication Standard and is widely used in Germany;
- EBICS History:
– 2003 EBICS deployments start in Germany;
– 2008 EBICS is mandatory for banks in Germany;
– 2011 French banks are required to complete their standard to EBICS;
– 2015 Switzerland joins EBICS;
– 2020 Austria joins EBICS; - EBICS is a solution that offers a single, common, and open standard for corporates to connect with ALL of their banks in Austria, France, Germany, and Switzerland;
- How is EBICS set up? Your bank guides and supports you with your EBICS implementation;
- What File Formats does EBICS Support? SWIFT MT messages (MT101 and MT940) and ISO20022 XML.
Sometimes I am lazy when reading foreign language texts then I simply copy paste the text into deepl.com it is so perfect and easy to read.