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IPR annual reporting: what PSPs must submit

Compliance with the Instant Payments Regulation does not end at go-live. It includes a recurring reporting obligation to national competent authorities. Here is what PSPs have to submit, and when.

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IPR annual reporting: what PSPs must submit

Key takeaways

  • The IPR requires annual reports to national competent authorities (NCAs), recurring each April.
  • Reports cover charges for instant vs non-instant transfers and the share rejected by sanctions screening.
  • The first standardised report was due 9 April 2026 after the EBA postponed the original 2025 deadline.

Most of the attention on the Instant Payments Regulation goes to the visible obligations — offering instant euro transfers and running Verification of Payee. But the regulation also carries a quieter, recurring duty: PSPs must report annually to their national competent authority. The first standardised report was due on 9 April 2026, after the European Banking Authority postponed the original 2025 deadline by twelve months to align reporting templates.

What the report covers

  • Charge levels for instant credit transfers and for standard (non-instant) credit transfers.
  • Evidence that instant transfers do not cost more than standard ones, as the IPR requires.
  • The share of transactions rejected due to EU sanctions screening, split between domestic and cross-border.

Why it matters

Reporting is how authorities verify compliance after go-live. The data also builds, over time, the first quantitative picture of how the regulation — including VoP — is changing fraud and pricing across the euro area. It is a recurring obligation, due again each April, not a one-time filing.

  1. 1 Capture the required metrics on charges and sanctions-screening rejections throughout the year.
  2. 2 Map them to the reporting template your NCA expects.
  3. 3 Submit by the April deadline, then repeat annually.

Good data starts before the deadline

Reporting is easier when the underlying numbers are captured cleanly all year — not reconstructed in March.

RoxPay gives you clean, exportable records of your Verification of Payee activity, so the VoP side of your IPR story is auditable and ready when reporting season comes around.

FAQ

Frequently asked

The first standardised report was due on 9 April 2026, after the EBA postponed the original 2025 deadline by a year. It then recurs annually, due each April.

Charge levels for instant and non-instant credit transfers — showing instant does not cost more — and the share of transactions rejected by EU sanctions screening, split domestic vs cross-border.

To their national competent authority (NCA), which uses the data to assess compliance with the Instant Payments Regulation.

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