March 2020

The NPC Implementation Guidelines for the NPC Payments Schemes has been published

The Nordic Payments Council have published the first versions of the NPC Implementation Guidelines. These documents set out are the NPC directions for implementing the interbank credit transfer ISO 20022 XML message standards and recommendations for the customer-to-bank and bank-to-customer XML message standards

There are two Implementation Guidelines and one recommendation for customer reporting for each payments scheme.

The Implementation Guidelines for the NPC Credit Transfer Scheme are found here:

2020 NCT Interbank IG 2020 version 1.0.1
2020 NCT C2B IG 2020 version 1.0
2020 Recommendation on Customer Reporting NCT and NCT Inst version 1.0


The Implementation Guidelines for the NPC Instant Credit Transfer Scheme are found here:

2021 NCT Inst Interbank IG version 1.0
2021 NCT Inst C2B IG version 1.0
2020 Recommendation on Customer Reporting NCT and NCT Inst version 1.0