Payment systems

Working papers

• TARGET2-Securities. (290 KB)
• Oversight framework for card payment, BCE (January 2008). (901 KB)
• Terms of reference for the oversight assessment of euro systemically and prominently important payment systems against the core principles, BCE (November 2007). (313 KB)
• Guide for the assessment against the business continuity oversight expectations for sips, BCE (November 2007). (88 KB)
• Payment and securities settlement systems in the European Union. Euro area countries. Blue Book, BCE (August 2007). (5 MB)
• Payment and securities settlement systems in the European Union. Non-euro area countries. Blue Book, BCE (August 2007). (5 MB)
• The Eurosystem policy principles on the location and operation of infrastructures settling euro-denominated payment transactions, BCE (July 2007). (30 KB)
• Payment and securities settlement systems in the European Union and in the acceding countries. Addendum incorporating 2005 data, BCE (December 2006). (2,9 MB)
• "El Banco de España y las tarjetas de pago bancarias: la vigilancia de un instrumento de pago". Tarjetas de pago y tasas de intercambio, Papeles de Economía Española. ISSN: 0210-9107 (nº extraordinario de 2006). (88 KB)
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• Business continuity oversight expectations for systemically Important Payment Systems, BCE (June 2006). (88 KB)
• "Central bank oversight of payment and settlement systems". Committee on Payment and Settlement Systems Publications nº 68 (May 2005).
• "Evolución en España de las tarjetas como medio de pago (1996 - 2004)". Estabilidad Financiera, nº 8 (141 KB)
• Criterios de vigilancia para los sistemas de pequeños pagos en euros, BCE (June 2003). (63,4 KB)
• Electronic money system security objectives, BCE (May 2003). (344 KB)
• "El papel del Eurosistema en los sistemas de pago y compensación". Boletín Mensual del BCE (April 2002) (107 KB)
• Glosario de términos utilizados en los sistemas de pago y liquidación de valores. Committee on Payment and Settlement Systems, Banco Mundial y Centro de Estudios Monetarios Latinoamericanos (January 2001) (278 KB)
• "Core Principles for Systemically Important Payment Systems". Committee on Payment and Settlement Systems Publications nº 43 (January 2001).
• Role of the Eurosystem in the field of payment systems oversight, BCE (July 2000). (238 KB)
• Report on electronic money, BCE (August 1998). (212 KB)
• "Report of the Committee on Interbank Netting Schemes of the central banks of the Group of Ten countries", Committee on Payment and Settlement Systems Publications (November 1990).