Division Payment Systems Policy Division TARGET and Payment Processing Division Securities Settlement Systems Policy

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It's an information processing system.

The term Interlinking is used to designate the infrastructures and the procedures which are used to process cross border payments within TARGET .

In 2001 the EBA presented a draft scheme for a pan European interbank processing system for retail payments .

STEP 2 is a new retail crossborder system for the processing of bulk payments ( currently only credit transfers ) .

As a consequence , consumers will spend less time handling payments .

During contingency processing , incoming contingency payments may be used to fund outgoing contingency payments .

During contingency processing , incoming contingency payments may be used to fund outgoing contingency payments .

process payments for itself and its customers

Standardisation of payment services and processing is critical .

Article 1 Definitions 1 . For the purposes of this Guideline

For the purposes of this Guideline

Such objectives warrant a payment arrangement that operates with a high level of security , within very short processing times and at low cost .

Second , it investigated additional optional services which could improve the handling of payments .

A retail payment system is a funds transfer system which handles a large volume of payments of relatively low value in such

It also includes the payment mechanism of the ECB , the EPM , and an interlinking mechanism that enables the processing of cross border payments .

A payment conversion is needed when the monetary unit in which a payment is expressed is not consistent with the monetary unit used by the payment system in which it is processed ( internal processing systems within banks , or interbank funds transfer systems ) .

Since its launch , the system has become a benchmark for processing euro payments in terms of speed , reliability , opening times and service level .

The handling of payments will be simplified , as all incoming and outgoing payments will have the same format .

T h e handling of payments will be simplified , as all incoming and outgoing payments will use the same format .

At the settlement date compensation has to be paid by one party to the other , depending on the difference between the contracted interest rate and the market rate on the settlement date . Forward transactions in securities shall mean over the counter contracts in which the purchase or sale of an interest rate instrument ( usually a bond or note ) is agreed on the contract date to be delivered at a future date , at a given price .

Interlinking shall mean the technical infrastructures , design features and procedures which are put in place within , or constitute adaptations of each national RTGS system and the ECB payment mechanism ( EPM ) for the purpose of processing cross border payments in the Target system .

The Pact is intended to serve as a means of safeguarding sound government finances in Stage Three of Economic and Monetary Union ( EMU ) in order to strengthen the conditions for price stability and for strong sustainable growth 137 conducive to employment creation .

Its goal should also be to make processing such payments more efficient than processing national payments today , so that national payments could be made more efficient by integrating them into a pan European infrastructure .

Settlement agent an institution that manages the settlement process ( e.g. the determination of settlement positions , monitoring the exchange of payments , etc .) for transfer systems or other arrangements that require settlement .

referred to in the Stability and Growth Pact .

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THE SEPA INFRASTRUCTURES AND STANDARDS The present infrastructure for the processing of retail payments has been designed to serve independent national payment systems .

The consequence of this is , that The current payment system is too expensive .

The objective is to create closer monetary policy co operation between Community countries leading to a zone of monetary stability in Europe . The main components of the EMS are the ECU

The scheme is separated from the processing infrastructure

It offers a separation of scheme and processing infrastructure

Implementation projects have already been set up by processors in Germany , Italy and the Netherlands .

to promote the efficiency of cross border payment and securities settlement transactions in order to support the integration of the euro money market , notably by developing the technical infrastructure ( the TARGET system ) for the processing of cross border payments in euro to be as smooth as that of domestic payments and

ECB opinion on the payment system in Hungary

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Payments through correspondents are often executed through reciprocal accounts ( so called nostro and loro accounts ) , to which standing credit lines may be attached .

Payments through correspondents are often executed through reciprocal accounts ( nostro and loro accounts ) to which standing credit lines may be attached .

It is likely that , with increased competition , the fees for card processing , clearing and settlement will fall significantly .

The use of the IBAN is a prerequisite for and a further step towards straight through processing ( STP ) for customer payments .

In this respect , standards allowing straight through processing ( STP ) of payment orders have been introduced , the EBA has established a payment system for crossborder low value payments ( Step 1 , see below ) and substantial progress to reduce balance of payment reporting requirements as from 2002 has been achieved .

1.2 Assessment of results If the euro area 's current retail payment system were assessed as if it was a single country 's payment system , it would be rated woefully inefficient .

The SCF requirements for open access to the scheme and separation of scheme and processing for authorisation , clearing and settlement are aimed at removing obstacles to competition for services in network industries with an essential facility ( i.e. offering competitive card services over a neutral processing infrastructure ) . These SCF ECB Sixth single euro payments area ( SEPA ) progress report November 2008

These payment files are settled via a bank participating in the Euro 1 large value payment system .