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+.. _wireformats:
+
+Wire Transfer Formats
+=====================
+
+A wire transfer is essential for the exchange to transfer funds into a merchant's
+account upon a successful deposit (see :ref:`deposit request <deposit>`).  The
+merchant has to include the necessary information for the exchange to initiate the
+wire transfer.
+
+The information required for wire transfer depends on the type of wire transfer
+used.  Since the wire transfers differ for each region, we document here the
+ones currently supported by the exchange.
+
+TEST
+----
+
+The TEST wire format is used for testing and for integration with Taler's
+simple "bank" system which in the future might be useful to setup a bank
+for a local / regional currency or accounting system.  Using the TEST
+wire format in combination with the Taler's bank, it is thus possible to
+fully test the Taler system without using "real" currencies.  The wire
+format for "TEST" is very simple, in that it only specifies an account
+number in a field "account_number" and the URI of the bank:
+
+  * `type`: the string constant `"test"`
+  * `bank_uri`: the URI of the bank (starting with `http://` or `https://`)
+  * `account_number`: the number of the account at the bank
+
+The account number given must be a positive 53-bit integer.
+Additional fields may be present, but are not required.
+
+Note that a particular exchange is usually only supporting one
+particular bank with the "TEST" wire format, so it is not possible for
+a merchant with an account at a different bank to use "TEST" to
+transfer funds across banks. After all, this is for testing and not
+for real banking.
+
+SEPA
+----
+
+The Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA) [#sepa]_ is a regulation for electronic
+payments.  Since its adoption in 2012, all of the banks in the Eurozone and some
+banks in other countries adhere to this standard for sending and receiving
+payments.  Note that the currency of the transfer will (currently) always be *EURO*.  In
+case the receiving account is in a currency other than EURO, the receiving bank
+may covert the amount into that currency; currency exchange charges may be
+levied by the receiving bank.
+
+For the merchant to receive deposits through SEPA, the deposit request must
+contain a JSON object with the following fields:
+
+  .. The following are taken from Page 33, SEPA_SCT.pdf .
+
+  * `type`: the string constant `"sepa"`
+  * `iban`: the International Bank Account Number (IBAN) of the account of the beneficiary
+  * `name`: the name of the beneficiary
+  * `bic`: the Bank Identification Code (BIC) code of the beneficiary's bank
+  * `salt`: random salt (used to make brute-forcing the hash harder)
+
+The JSON object may optionally contain:
+  * `address`: the address of the Beneficiary
+
+The implementation of the SEPA plugin is currently incomplete.  Specifically, we need a working implementation of `libebics` which is a sub-project trying to implement the EBICS [#ebics]_ standard.
+    
+.. [#sepa] SEPA - Single Euro Payments Area:
+           http://www.ecb.europa.eu/paym/sepa/html/index.en.html
+.. [#ebics] EBCIS - European Banking Computer Interface Standard
+          http://www.ebics.org/