Target2
ECB invites entrants for wholesale ‘digital euro’ trial
CBDC work in 2024 will test Banque de France, Bank of Italy and Bundesbank DLT solutions
Central banks take less than 50 minutes to fix critical outages
Time tolerances for critical system downtime range from one to 32 hours
Ulrich Bindseil on the launch of the digital euro
The ECB’s director-general for market infrastructure and payments speaks about the functionality, tiering approaches, privacy policies, ledger technology and ecosystem impact of the eurozone's planned CBDC
The role of Tips for the future payments landscape
Tips could support euro CBDC plus cross-border payments in many currencies
ECB announces independent inquiry into Target2 outage
Main findings on RTGS failure will be published by second quarter of next year, ECB says
Eurozone’s RTGS system suffers major outage
ECB says Target2 system’s production site had to shift to alternative region – rules out cyber incident
Peter Praet on Europe’s Covid-19 responses
The former ECB chief economist talks about threats to financial stability, negative rates, common debt issuance and steps to improve the EMU
Riksbank picks ECB’s Tips for instant krona settlement system
Central bank preparing system for round-the-clock settlement in Swedish krona
ECB prepares for ‘big bang’ move to new market infrastructure
Eurozone's payments, instant payments and securities settlement systems will merge by end of 2021
Swift announces trials with ECB instant payment system
Linking “Swift gpi” to ECB’s Tips will greatly reduce delays in settlement, consortium says
Risk management technology: Vermeg
Having successfully delivered the collateral management module of its Megara system to four major central banks, Vermeg has won a high-profile tender to deliver the technology for the Eurosystem Collateral Management System
ECB launches eurozone real-time retail payments platform
ECB aims to prevent fragmentation of European real-time payments market
UK payment service providers at risk under ‘no deal’ Brexit
Payment service providers risk being locked out of Target2 and Sepa
Italy’s trial
Francesco Papadia argues Italy is likely to suffer financial and economic damage under its new political leadership, but will still not leave the euro
Payments and market infrastructure provider of the year: Perago
The software company is helping central banks around the world implement reliable and highly adaptable RTGS and retail payments systems
ECB approves major financial infrastructure programmes
ECB plans for Target2 and T2S to merge, plus new collateral management system for Eurosystem
Eurozone excess liquidity focused on five states – ECB paper
Funding stress no longer drives the concentration of holdings, say researchers
National curbs hit budding pan-EU settlement market
Restrictions on primary dealers undermine T2S efficiencies, market sources say
The ECB must reform Target2 to make it sustainable
Target2 has emerged as the eurozone’s financing entity for ballooning structural balance-of-payments gaps. The present system is unsustainable and needs reform, says Philip Turner
DLT not ‘mature enough’ for eurozone usage, ECB says
ECB’s annual report explores progress with distributed ledger technology, emphasising it is still in its infancy; DLT could eventually be used for Europe’s payment and securities settlement systems
Macedonia links up with EU payment infrastructure
Central bank announces local interbank payment system will connect with Target2 via the Bank of Italy; payments department manager says the development will enable smoother integration with the EU