BoE’s RTGS service update goes live
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The Bank of England has implemented a planned update aimed at enabling its real-time gross settlement (RTGS) service to accommodate more participants and respond better to disruption.
The update, which went live today (April 28) according to a source familiar with the matter, centres on four “key areas”: greater access, increased resilience, wider interoperability and improved user functionality.
According to a BoE note, the new service is capable of accommodating “a substantially higher number of
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