Payment systems

Documents on the oversight of payment systems

This section includes the updated version of the Eurosystem Oversight Policy Framework as well as complementary information relating to this framework.

• Eurosystem oversight policy framework (July 2016)  (114 KB)
• Revised oversight framework for retail payment systems (February 2016)  (140 KB)
• Guide for the assessment of card payment schemes against the oversight standards (February 2015)  (517 KB)
• Guide for the assessment of credit transfer schemes against the oversight standards (November 2014)  (831 KB)
• Guide for the assessment of debit transfer schemes against the oversight standards (November 2014)  (896 KB)
• Assesment methodology for Payment Systems 2014  (155 KB)
• Recommendations for the security of internet payments, ECB (January 2013)  (307 KB)
• Principles for financial market infrastructures: disclosure framework and assessment methodology, CPSS-IOSCO (December 2012)  (597 KB)
• Oversight expectations for links between retail payment systems, ECB (November 2012)  (301 KB)
• Principles for financial market infrastructures, CPSS-IOSCO (April 2012)  (1 MB)
• Oversight framework for direct debit schemes, ECB (October 2010)  (797 KB)
• Oversight framework for credit transfer schemes, ECB (October 2010)  (802 KB)
• Harmonised oversight approach and oversight standards for payment instruments, ECB (February 2009).  (116 KB)
• Oversight framework for card payment schemes standards - Standards, ECB (January 2008).  (900 KB)
• Guide for the assessment against the business continuity oversight expectations for SIPS, ECB (November 2007).  (84 KB)
• The Eurosystem policy principles on the location and operation of infrastructures settling euro-denominated payment transactions, ECB (July 2007)  (29 KB)
• Business continuity oversight expectations for systemically important payment systems (SIPS), ECB (June 2006).  (84 KB)
• "Central bank oversight of payment and settlement systems". Committee on Payment and Settlement Systems Publications n.º 68 (May 2005)
• Electronic money system security objectives, ECB (May 2003).
• The Eurosystem's policy line with regard to consolidation in central counterparty clearing, ECB (September 2001).  (20 KB)
• Role of the Eurosystem in the field of payment systems oversight, ECB (June 2000)
• "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).