Verification of Payee in Romania
How Romanian banks, PSPs and businesses prepare for Verification of Payee — the IBAN name check known locally as verificarea beneficiarului — as a non-euro EU market joining the obligation in 2027.
What Verification of Payee means for the Romanian market
Romania has a fast-growing digital payments market, with instant transfers spreading quickly across banks and fintechs. A clear name check helps protect a rising number of first-time digital payers.
Because Romania uses the leu rather than the euro, its payment service providers fall in the second wave of the Instant Payments Regulation: the Verification of Payee obligation applies from 9 July 2027.
Verification of Payee confirms that the name a payer enters matches the IBAN before a transfer is sent, returning a clear result in real time — a strong defence against misdirected payments and authorised push payment fraud.
Verification of Payee in Romania at a glance
The essentials for the Romanian market.
Key date: 9 Jul 2027
As a non-euro EU country, Romanian PSPs must offer VoP by 9 July 2027.
Outside the euro area
Romania uses the leu (RON) and joins the obligation in the second wave.
Fast-growing
Rapidly rising digital payments make a clear name check timely.
Key Verification of Payee dates
How the obligation reaches non-euro EU PSPs like those in Romania.
- 9 Oct 2025
Euro-area VoP live
Euro-area PSPs already offer Verification of Payee — the baseline Romania will join.
- 2026
Preparation window
Romanian PSPs build scheme adherence and connectivity ahead of the deadline.
- 9 Jul 2027
Non-euro VoP obligation
PSPs in non-euro EU states like Romania must offer Verification of Payee.
Value across the Romanian payment chain
The same check, value for every party.
Banks & PSPs
Meet the 2027 obligation and join the SEPA VoP scheme through one integration.
Businesses
Verify supplier and payroll IBANs before paying, cutting invoice-redirection fraud.
Payers
A clear confirmation before money leaves — reassurance on every transfer.
Verification of Payee in Romania
Common questions for the Romanian market.
Yes, but from a later date. As a non-euro EU country, Romanian PSPs must offer Verification of Payee from 9 July 2027 rather than the October 2025 date for euro-area PSPs.
It is often described as verificarea beneficiarului — verification of the beneficiary — and works the same way as elsewhere in SEPA.
The Instant Payments Regulation gives non-euro-area member states more time, so countries using their own currency like Romania join the VoP obligation on 9 July 2027.
By connecting to the SEPA VoP scheme through a provider like RoxPay, a Romanian PSP can go live with a single integration well ahead of the 2027 deadline.
Prepare Verification of Payee in Romania
Talk to RoxPay about going live with VoP for the Romanian market ahead of the 2027 deadline.