322 results about this entity
Period: 16 Feb 2007 - 14 Aug 2024
News
The European Central Bank has called for an overhaul of governance and management of the European Payments Council in its latest report on impediments to the creation of a Single Euro Payments Area (Sepa).
24 November 2008
The European Commission (EC) says it is proposing an extension of existing regulations to ensure that cross-border direct debit payments made in euros cost the same as domestic transactions.
15 October 2008
European think tank Eurofi has called on the European Commission to institute tougher enforcement of settlement harmonisation and consolidation programmes aimed at cutting costs of cross-border post-trade services across the EU.
11 September 2008
EU authorities have called on banks to push ahead with plans to introduce a pan-European direct debit payments system, even if interchange fees are initially charged for cross-border transactions.
04 September 2008
The European Commission and the European Central Bank have welcomed a document published by the banking industry-backed European Payment Council that paves the way for a competitive single market for card payment card schemes by 2010.
22 August 2008
An advisory group has put forward recommendations for breaking down legal barriers to the cross-border holding and settlement of securities in the European Union, including proposals to enable issuers to choose which central securities depository they want to use.
The European Central Bank is to press ahead with the launch of its contentious settlement harmonisation project Target2-Securities and has assigned the development and operation of the facility to the Deutsche Bundesbank, the Banco de España, the Banque de France and the Banca d'Italia.
17 July 2008
The European Central Bank (ECB) is calling on central securities depositories (CSDs) to sign up to Target2-Securities (TS2), its proposed integrated securities settlement system in the euro zone.
23 May 2008
The first stage implementation of the single euro payments area (Sepa) - which aims to make cross-border payments as cheap as domestic transactions - has gone live with the official launch of the Sepa payment instrument for credit transfers.
28 January 2008
The European Central Bank has won an appeal in a French court against Document Security Systems (DSS), the New York-based provider of anti-counterfeit software that filed a patent infringement lawsuit against the central bank in 2005.
09 January 2008
The European Central Bank (ECB) is launching a public consultation on its controversial initiative to establish an integrated securities settlement system in the euro zone.
18 December 2007
The Federation of European Securities Exchanges (FESE) has voiced concerns over the cost implications to its members of the European Central Bank's (ECB) plan to introduce an integrated securities settlement system in the euro zone and has called for more clarity and a clear business case for the project.
06 December 2007
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