Central Banking

BoJ improves payments and settlements after crisis

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A review published by the Bank of Japan this month entitled The Payment and Settlement Systems Report provides a broad overview of developments in payment and settlement systems at the central bank and identifies several challenges that Japan seeks to address in the future.

The value and number of transactions processed by major payment and settlement systems in Japan remained broadly constant since the latter half of 2007, but decreased substantially following the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers

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