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ECB hails launch of new wholesale settlement system

Eurosystem’s new RTGS system and liquidity management tool went live on March 20

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The European Central Bank said it successfully launched its new wholesale settlement system on March 20, completing the multi-year replacement of a critical piece of eurozone infrastructure.

The T2 real-time gross settlement (RTGS) system replaced Target2 as the main settlement system for the Eurosystem. Target2 previously processed €2.2 trillion ($2.4 billion) every day.

The ECB said the first day of T2 operations “went smoothly”, though the system’s close was delayed, “the root cause of

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