RTGS Global kicks into gear to disrupt correspondent banking
RTGS has built its system on Microsoft Azure.
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Mark Carney’s backdoor to the European financial system
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Bank of England confirms blockchain viability for RTGS
DLT-based settlement with central bank money is alive and kicking.
ECB targets new RTGS platform
The European Central Bank’s (ECB’s) governing council will decide by the end of this year whether to greenlight a new real-time gross settlement (RTGS) system to replace the decade-old Target2 platform.
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Finexus and Volante to build new RTGS system for Asia Pacific
Malaysia-based payments solutions provider Finexus is building a new real-time gross settlement (RTGS) platform for banks in Asia Pacific. It has partnered with Volante Technologies, which will provide the MT to MX message transition, via its flagship Volante Designer product.
Bank of England to overhaul RTGS service, issues consultation paper
The Bank of England (BoE) has published a consultation paper on the next generation real-time gross settlement (RTGS) service. On the way out is the bank’s legacy 20-year old platform. The BoE is calling on the payments industry specialists to get in touch.
Bank of Punjab automates Islamic treasury; implements new RTGS system
Pakistan-based Bank of Punjab (BOP) has extended its partnership with local software vendor Autosoft Dynamics. Autosoft will implement its new real-time gross settlement (RTGS) system, AutoRTGS, at the bank and will also extend the coverage of the Adams treasury system to support Islamic banking. BOP is already a user of Adams for conventional banking operations. […]
Reserve Bank of New Zealand chooses SIA for new RTGS system
The Reserve Bank of New Zealand (RBNZ), the nation’s central bank, has chosen Italian payments company SIA to implement and support a new real-time gross settlement (RTGS) system. The new system will replace the current exchange settlement account system (ESAS). It will be delivered by SIA’s subsidiary Perago, based in South Africa. Perago is a […]
Hong Kong to implement Swift’s infrastructure resiliency service
Hong Kong has become the second jurisdiction to sign up to use Swift’s Market Infrastructure Resiliency Service to improve operation of its real-time gross settlement system.
Bank of England live on Swift’s MIRS contingency platform
The Bank of England has become the first central bank to go live with an implementation of the Market Infrastructure Resiliency Service contingency system it has been piloting with Swift over the past few years.
The man from CHAPS
The UK’s Clearing House Automated Payments System turned 30 earlier this year. It wasn’t an anniversary marked with street parties by a grateful nation, but in its quiet way it was a significant moment, for – in common with the whole payments infrastructure – the system is going through a period of change. Phil Kenworthy, […]
