Iberpay manages the Spanish payment system (Sistema Nacional de Compensación Electrónica, SNCE), a critical payment infrastructure specialized in processing, clearing and settling payment instruments to and from current accounts: credit transfers, instant credit transfers, direct debits, cheques and bills of exchange. Furthermore, as manager of the Spanish Cash Distribution System (SDA), Iberpay plays a key role in the distribution of cash to financial entities. Iberpay also provides other value-added technological and digital services related to payments.

Iberpay connects banks, companies and citizens to process and settle their payments. It fulfills a critical mission in a developed society by facilitating the circulation of funds between accounts and supporting the country’s economy. Its functions are those of an interbank clearing house.

Iberpay is a company employing hi-tech for payment processing using its own innovative technology. Iberpay’s CICLOM platform is a critical infrastructure with high-processing-capacity technical and communication architecture, offering maximum availability, scalability and security.

Iberpay is leading the implementation of SEPA-payment standards within the Spanish financial sector. It supports its pan-European activity providing interoperability links and ensuring that Spanish entities can process their payments reaching almost all European counterparts. In addition, Iberpay is carrying out intense activity in many Latin American countries.

Iberpay processed 3,000 million payment transactions in 2023 for a total value of €2.7 trillion. Iberpay averaged 12 million transactions per day, with dauly peaks of 27.9 million transactions.

Iberpay processes instant credit transfers in Spain, ensuring that citizens and companies can make instant credit transfers, at their convenience, from and to their bank accounts, in real time and 24x7, with full guarantee and security. In 2023, Iberpay has processed over 1,011 million instant credit transfers worth 119,000 million euros, representing 53.6% of total credit transfers in Spain, compared to the 15.5% average in Europe.

Almost all banks operating in Spain use the services provided by Iberpay. 20 credit institutions participate directly and settle payments in the Payment System (SNCE) representing the rest of the banks that clear and settle retail payments in Spain.

Iberpay currently has 13 shareholding credit institutions with direct participation in the Payment System (SNCE).

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Iberpay maintains permanent collaboration with other key institutions, banks and companies in the financial sector both in Spain and in Europe with the aim of providing the market with harmonised sectorial payment solutions under the best technical and operational practices. Iberpay is an active collaborator in the following working groups:

EUROPEAN CENTRAL BANK:

• Advisory Group on Market Infrastructures on Payments (AMI-Pay)
• European Ciber Resilience Board (ECRB)
• Partnership Progam for Euro Banknotes

BANK OF SPAIN:

• AMI-Pay España
• SDA General Coordination Committee

COMITÉ NACIONAL DE PAGOS (Spanish Payments Committee):

• Permanent Member

EUROPEAN BANKING ASSOCIATION:

• Associate Member

EUROPEAN PAYMENTS COUNCIL:

• EPC Scheme Technical Player Multi-Stakeholder Group (STP MSG)
• EPC Multi-Stakeholder Group in Request-to-Pay (RTP MSG)

EACHA:

• EACHA Member and President of the board of directors
• EACHA Technical Group
• EACHA Innovation Group (EIG)

SWIFT:

• SWIFT Spain Member and User Association

ALASTRIA:

• Member of Alastria

DIGITAL EURO ASSOCIATION:

• Active Member 

ELOCC (Latin American Meeting of Clearing House Operators):

• Participant

Iberpay playes a critical and essential role to ensure financial stability and develop economic activity. Aware of this mission, the company incorporates best practices in adapting to international standards in the areas of Security, Business Continuity and Cyber-Resilience, through:

• A Cybersecurity Governance and Management Framework aligned with the Eurosystem’s Resilience Strategy for the Financial Market Infrastructure and with the CPMI-IOSCO cyber resilience guide, of the Basel International Payments Bank, supervised by the Banco de España according to cyber-resilience oversight expectations (CROE) for financial market institutions.
• An Information Security Management System, complying to the ISO 270001 standard, audited and certified annually since 2012.
• A Business Continuity Management System, complying to the ISO 22301 standard, audited and certified annually since 2013.
• Active participation in forums and collaborative groups within the framework of the Euro Cyber Resilience Board (ECRB), to promote initiatives to improve cyber-resilience in financial sector infrastructures.