EU Instant Payments Regulation

Daily sanctions screening evidence for PSPs.

The Instant Payments Regulation (Reg 2024/886) requires PSPs to screen their entire customer base immediately on each new TFS designation and at least daily. Verifex supports the evidence workflow — sweep, delta, alert, export.

Regulation overview

What the IPR requires

The EU Instant Payments Regulation (Reg 2024/886) amended the SEPA Regulation to prohibit per-transaction EU restrictive-measures screening of in-scope instant credit transfers. Instead, PSPs must screen their full customer base:

  • Immediately on each new or amended TFS designation
  • At least daily as a baseline screening cadence

Eurozone banks: receive from 9 January 2025, send from 9 October 2025. Eurozone PIs/EMIs: receive from 9 January 2027, send from 9 July 2027. Non-Eurozone EU PSPs follow similar deferrals.

National AML laws may still require transaction-based screening for non-EU regimes (OFAC SDN, UK OFSI). Verifex supports both daily-batch and per-transaction screening modes with separate evidence records.

How Verifex helps

Daily sweep evidence workflow

Daily customer-base sweep

Re-screen your full customer base against the latest sanctions lists on a configurable daily cadence. Evidence is bound to the exact list versions used.

List-update delta triggers

When OFAC, EU, UN, or UK lists publish updates, automatically identify which of your customers may be affected by the delta.

Reviewable export

Each sweep produces a timestamped, versioned evidence record in JSON or CSV format — ready for internal audit review and compliance documentation.

Webhook alerts on hits

Receive real-time webhook notifications when a daily sweep surfaces a new match, so your compliance team can act immediately.

Not legal advice. This page summarizes publicly available regulatory text for informational purposes. Verifex provides screening infrastructure and evidence organization to support your compliance workflow. Customers remain responsible for interpreting regulatory obligations and maintaining their own compliance programs.