Payments
UAE and India to create bilateral settlement system
Messaging link would remove need for Swift, RBI governor says
Nigerian central bank caps contactless payments
Move limits consumers’ daily contactless payments to $66
Ex-Fed vice-chair Quarles linked to bank seeking master account
Quarles’s involvement recalls controversy over Sarah Bloom Raskin
Austria introduces new clearing service
Central bank welcomes lender-owned company’s oversight of new system
Payments Benchmarks 2023 report – moving money in shifting conditions
Data reveals differences in CBDC paths, RTGS systems, instant payment plans and budgets
Central Bank of Oman launches 24/7 RTGS
Oman will be connected to payment systems across the Arab world via AFAQ and Buna systems
Bank of England adopts ISO 20022
Businesses and consumers may have more data input options by year’s end
Foreign de-risking keeps Somali banks isolated, governor says
Central Banking Summer Meetings: Somalia needs to rejoin world finance system after payments success
Median RTGS system processes nearly $100bn annually
Median value of payments rose by $15bn from the previous benchmark
Primary RTGS systems have average $1.65m in operating costs
Majority of central banks increased payments system divisions budgets in the past year
Payments oversight is under-resourced for a third of central banks
Respondents identify shortage of human capital, capacity building and dated technology as concerns
Few non-banks have access to RTGS systems
Maximum number of institutions reported to have access to one RTGS system was 233
Most central banks have payment and settlement supervision mandates
Payment system laws contain oversight powers in two-thirds of jurisdictions
Payment ecosystems remain relatively unchanged over past year
Most central banks help price RTGS services and many do for credit transfers and direct debits
Central banks report having one to three RTGS contingency sites
Most central banks experienced a high-value payment system outage in the last year
Banknotes: April to June 2023
A round-up of news and salient issues that have affected central bankers in the past three months
ISO 20022 payments messaging adoption rate increases
Majority of central banks uphold plans to transition by 2025
More than 80% of central banks are investigating CBDC
Central banks feel negatively about retail digital currencies in their payment systems
South African central bank prepares for total power failure
Sarb working on resilience plans but warns only “some transactions” may continue
Most central banks regulate or operate instant payment systems
Bank accounts, phone numbers and QR codes are most common access tools for instant payments
Third-party risks are a first priority for central banks
Cyber and concentration risks crystallise co-operation between critical infrastructure providers
Most RTGS systems are more than three years old
Nearly 60% of central banks plan to upgrade their RTGS payment system in the next year
Most central banks use third-party payment providers
Montran, Swift, and CMA Small Systems come up repeatedly as third parties