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TARGET2 was the real-time gross settlement (RTGS) system for the Eurozone from its phased introduction in 2007-2008 until its replacement with T2 in March 2023. As such, it was one of the Eurosystem's TARGET Services, replacing the original TARGET (Trans-European Automated Real-time Gross Settlement Express Transfer System) RTGS introduced in 1999.
In addition to euro area countries and those that would adopt the euro in subsequent years (namely Cyprus, Malta, Slovakia and the Baltic countries), Denmark and Poland participated in the migration to TARGET2, [7]: 99 whereas Sweden and the UK did not. [4]: 66, 79 On 4 July 2011, Romania also connected to TARGET2. [8]
That places TARGET2/T2 turnover below CLS and Fedwire but above BOJ-NET (Japan) and CHAPS (United Kingdom), as has been the case throughout the previous decade. [5]: 1.1 The system suffered no outages during 2023; 90 percent of transactions were settled within 38 seconds, whereas 0.09 percent took more than five minutes. [5]: 2
TARGET2-Securities, in shorthand T2S, is the Eurosystem's platform for securities settlement in central bank money. [1] T2S offers centralised delivery-versus-payment (DvP) settlement across several European securities markets, without being itself a central securities depository (CSD) since it does not offer CSD services such as custody or asset servicing.
Nordic countries launched the P27 payment platform, but that initiative eventually failed in 2023. [5] The Eurosystem in March 2023 switched its real-time gross settlement to T2, which follows ISO 20022. The switch involves transactions for settling payments related to the Eurosystem's monetary policy operations, as well as bank‑to‑bank and ...
The Clearing House Interbank Payments System (CHIPS) is a United States private clearing house for large-value wire transfer transactions. [1]As of late 2024, it settles approximately 500,000 payments totaling US$1.8 trillion per day. [2]
As of February 2014 all countries in the Single Euro Payments Area have switched to an IBAN-based system for clearing (including TARGET2 for cross-border transfers). The national bank codes have been integrated into the IBAN definition, in most cases at the start of the new account number (starting at position 5 after the common prefix of two ...
The plan was based on the 2003 introduction of new dinars into Iraq by the Americans and would have required rebuilding the Greek economy and banking system ab initio, including isolating Greek banks by disconnecting them from the TARGET2 system, closing ATMs, and imposing capital and currency controls.