How does instant transfer work?

SEPA Instant Credit Transfer (SCT Inst) is a project that has involved numerous European institutions since 2015, including the ERPB (European Retail Payment Board), the EPC (European Payment Council) and the EBA (European Banking Authority). 

 

European coverage within the SEPA zone

The SEPA Instant Credit Transfer (SCT Inst) operates within the Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA), encompassing 36 European countries and ensuring real-time cross-border transactions. Starting from October 9, 2025, all banks will be required to allow their customers to make instant transfers in accordance with the EU Instant Transfer Regulation 2024/886.

24/7 availability

SEPA Instant Credit Transfer is available non-stop, seven days a week, including weekends and public holidays, giving users the option of making payments at any time.

Features and benefits of instant transfers

The main features of instant transfers make them perfectly suited to the new needs of companies and individuals looking for immediacy and reliability: 

  • Payment in euros in the 36 countries of the SEPA zone;
  • Maximum runtime of 10 seconds;
  • Instant credit (10 to 20 seconds) to the beneficiary’s account;
  • Amount of the operation limited to €100,000; 
  • Uninterrupted 365-day service availability.

Why choose Treezor for instant transfers?

Treezor monitors transactions and benefits from the reliability, security and expertise of Societe Generale, as a shareholder and SEPA leader (Top 3 clearer worldwide). As an entity subject to AML-CFT obligations, Treezor maintains constant vigilance over SEPA credit transfers. Users are pre-screened by a KYC process to ensure compliance with current regulations.

Choosing Treezor for your instant money transfers has several advantages:

Real-time transactions

Thanks to our core-banking, transactions are processed in real time, thus crediting the beneficiary directly, and the account balance is updated instantly, providing an immediate and accurate view of your account balance. 

Reconciling safety and efficiency

Treezor’s solution, connected with the SCT-Inst scheme and benefiting from Societe Generale’s expertise, allows you to achieve wide reachability. Treezor also prioritizes security measures to protect transactions while guaranteeing the efficiency of the real-time transfer process.

Treezor’s instant transfer features

 

Automated management of recall requests (Recall and Request of Recall by Originator) in the event of a recipient error, or when the transfer is fraudulent/issued in duplicate, for example


Management of rejects, with information when the account is closed, for example


The ability to schedule credits or debits to user accounts


Verification of reachability and BIC: Treezor ensures that the correspondent bank is able to receive instant transfers, and systematically checks that the BIC entered is linked to an EBA bank

Some use cases of instant transfers with Treezor

Fast and simple, instant transfers meet the needs of consumers and businesses in the context of national and cross-border trade:

C2C (consumer to consumer)

to carry out a transaction in real time on purchasing platforms (sports equipment, cars, etc.) or collaborative participation (kitty, project financing, etc.), fund transfers between bank accounts (sending money between friends and family)

B2B (business to business)
for companies wishing to speed up payment to their suppliers.
e-commerce
for purchases of goods and services by private individuals, on e-commerce sites for example

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