Simon M Wtf? Are you serious? Dutch banks ABN and bunq who already are on EU SCT Inst, do not charge anything for it at all, you and your friend should complain to them that this is not in the spirit of the EU single market and that you are appalled at this practice. But don’t feel left out by these Dutch banks, as ABN still does not submit all outgoing payments as instant, only one time transfers initiated by consumers from the mobile banking app or at the online banking portal will go out as instant from ABN, so for me, I’m not getting the money to bunq immediately as my bookkeeping software communicates with the batch system from ABN and sadly those aren’t processed instantly yet. The same goes for standing orders, those also don’t go out instant at ABN. But bunq's implementation should be taken as an example by the other banks as bunq has gone all the way on the sepa instant scheme and sends out all payments as instant to the European banking system, so even if it’s a transfer to a non instant bank, bunq has submitted it as instant from their end. Same with all incoming transactions, bunq processes them as instant regardless of the sending bank. This also includes the new batch file function from update 9, those are also send out as instant from bunq's system, at no additional cost.
