Services

Reserve management services

The Eurosystem, in order to support the euro in its role as a reserve currency, has developed an operational framework within which the national central banks of the euro area (NCBs) will offer a series of standard services to central banks and monetary authorities outside the Eurosystem.

The full range of harmonized services offered are as follows:

• Custody and settlement services
• Cash services
• Investment services

These services, offered by the central banks of Germany, France, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands and Luxembourg; provide to customers financial safety, legal certainty and confidentiality and access, from any national central bank, at all services offered by the Eurosystem.