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T2 is a financial market infrastructure that provides real-time gross settlement (RTGS) of payments, mostly in euros. It is operated by the European Central Bank and is the critical payments infrastructure of the euro area. With turnover in the trillions of euros every day, it is one of the largest payment systems in the world. [1]
TARGET2 (Trans-European Automated Real-time Gross Settlement Express Transfer System) was the real-time gross settlement (RTGS) system for the Eurozone from its introduction in 2007-2008 until its replacement with T2 in March 2023. It was developed and owned by the Eurosystem.
As of late 2024, TARGET Services included T2 for large payments (which replaced TARGET2 in 2023), TARGET2-Securities (T2S) for securities transactions, and TARGET Instant Payment Settlement (TIPS) for instant payments. [1] A fourth service, the Eurosystem Collateral Management System (ECMS), is intended to complement the TARGET suite in the ...
TARGET Instant Payment Settlement or TIPS is a TARGET Service of the Eurosystem that allows the settlement of instant payments in central bank money.The acronym TARGET stands for Trans-European Automated Real-time Gross-Settlement Express Transfer; other TARGET Services include T2 (RTGS) and TARGET2-Securities.
TARGET2 (Trans-European Automated Real-time Gross Settlement Express Transfer System) is a RTGS system that covers the European Union member states which use the euro. It is part of the Eurosystem, which comprises the European Central Bank and the national central banks of those countries that have adopted the euro. TARGET2 is used for the ...
RTGS systems are usually operated by a country's central bank as it is seen as critical infrastructure for a country's economy. Economists believe that an efficient national payment system reduces the cost of exchanging goods and services, and is indispensable to the functioning of the interbank, money, and capital markets.
TARGET2, the real-time gross settlement system (RTGS) owned and operated by the Eurosystem. Notes ...
T2S (TARGET2-Securities) is a European securities settlement engine which aims to offer centralised delivery-versus-payment (DvP) settlement in central bank funds across all European securities markets.