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The Eurosystem Collateral Management System (ECMS) is a unified platform for collateral management in the Eurosystem, intended to support the effectiveness of monetary policy in the euro area. It is one of the Eurosystem's TARGET Services , together with T2 for large payments, TARGET Instant Payment Settlement (TIPS) for instant payments , and ...
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] [2] A fourth service, the Eurosystem Collateral Management System (ECMS), is to complement the TARGET suite in mid-June ...
The Eurosystem is the monetary authority of the eurozone, the collective of European Union member states that have adopted the euro as their sole official currency. The European Central Bank (ECB) has, under Article 16 of its Statute, [ 1 ] the exclusive right to authorise the issuance of euro banknotes .
Like other RTGS systems, T2 allows individual banks to submit payment orders and have them settled in central bank money, namely the euro. T2 settles payments between banks as well as those related to the Eurosystem's own operations. [1] Member banks can connect to T2 either via SWIFT or via NEXI-Colt, a service of Nexi.
The ESCB is composed of the European Central Bank and the national central banks of all 27 member states of the EU. The first section of the following list lists member states and their central banks that form the Eurosystem (plus the ECB), which set eurozone monetary policy.
Preserving central bank money's role as a monetary anchor for the payment system. [7] Provide free digital access to a secure legal tender in the Eurozone; Expanding payment options through alternative central bank money alongside cash and book money in commercial bank accounts, contributing to availability and inclusion
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.
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.