343 results about this entity
Period: 16 Feb 2007 - 17 Jun 2025
News
Europe's central banks have awarded the two Target2Securities (T2S) connectivity licenses to Swift and a consortium made up of SIA and Colt.
09 January 2012
The European Central Bank is to offer 'early bird' incentives to central securities depositories that sign up to the Target 2 Securities (T2S) platform, as the controversial project to streamline the Euro area's securities settlements systems reaches a critical make-or-break stage in its development.
29 November 2011
Somebody at the European Central Bank must have a warped sense of humour. Amid desperate calls for the ECB to step in and do more to help alleviate the euro zone crisis, social media wonks at the bank turned to Twitter to trumpet the arrival of an important new monetary policy game for the iPhone and iPad.
17 November 2011
Financial stability within the EU is at risk unless decisive and swift action is implemented by all authorities, according to a warning issued by the European Systemic Risk Board (ESRB), the EU's super-watchdog.
21 September 2011
The ECB has called on central securities depositories (CSDs) to 'efficiently reshape' their IT infrastructure in order to integrate to the T2S platform, its proposed pan-European settlement service which has encountered further delays amid foot-dragging by CSDs and protracted arguments over costs and pricing.
The European Central Bank has once again been forced to push back the deadline for implementation of Target2 Securities, the Eurosystem's ambitious but controversial project to harmonise Europe's securities settlement structure.
20 September 2011
The British government is to sue the European Central Bank over draft regulations that would force major clearing houses to relocate their operations away from the City of London.
15 September 2011
The European Central Bank has set an October deadline for its final offer to central security depositories (CSDs) on a framework agreement for the Target2Securities (T2S) system. However, the UK now seems certain to turn its back on the project.
22 July 2011
Europe's central banks have begun the process of picking network service providers for the Target2Securities (T2S) system, with telecoms firms expected to challenge inter-bank co-operative Swift for the two licenses up for grabs.
15 July 2011
Finextra TV
Michael Thom, retail issues, consumer policy and payment systems, European Commission and Wiebe Ruttenberg, head of market infrastructure division, European Central Bank comment on the next steps for Sepa in this special mini-webcast.
21 June 2011
A group of 24 European banks planning to establish a rival card network to Visa and MasterCard have called on the European Commission to provide clarification over the level of multilateral interchange fees for the Single Euro Payments Area.
15 June 2011
To cut fraud, cards issued in the single euro payments area (Sepa) should only use chips, not mag-stripes, says the European Central Bank (ECB).
13 May 2011
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