9th ECB seminar on Payment and Settlement Issues for Central Banks
European Central Bank
(Eurotower, 2nd floor, room CIV)
Frankfurt am Main
7-11 September 2009
Monday
Day 1 - 7 September
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(Venue: Eurotower, Kaiserstrasse 29)
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| 12 noon |
Registration |
| 1.00 p.m. |
Opening of the seminar & welcoming address
by Mr. Jean-Michel Godeffroy, Chairman of the TARGET2-Securities Programme Board
|
| 1. 30 p.m. |
Payments – concepts, risks and the euro area landscape |
| 3 p.m. |
Securities – concepts, risks and the euro area landscape |
| 4 p.m. |
Economic concepts |
Tuesday
Day 2 - 8 September
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(Venue: Eurotower, Kaiserstrasse 29)
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| 9 a.m. |
The legal foundations for payment and settlement systems |
| 9.45 a.m. |
The role of central banks in payment and settlement systems
|
| 10.30 a.m. |
Group work |
| 11.30 a.m. |
Towards an integrated European retail payments market |
| 2 p.m. |
Card schemes and card payments |
| 2.45 p.m. |
Outcome of group work |
| 3.45 to 5 p.m. |
Monetary policy implementation by the Eurosystem, including measures during the recent turmoil |
Wednesday
Day 3 - 9 September
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(Venue: Eurotower, Kaiserstrasse 29)
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| 9 a.m. |
Addressing foreign exchange settlement risk and the Continuous Linked Settlement (CLS) system |
| 10 a.m. |
Central counterparty clearing for derivatives
|
| 11.30 a.m. |
TARGET2 – a new Eurosystem service for real-time settlement |
| 2 p.m. |
The Eurosystem oversight policy framework for payments and securities |
| 3.30 p.m. |
Parallel sessions:
- The Eurosystem retail payments oversight
- Issues in network services for market infrastructures
|
| 4.30 to 5.15 p.m. |
Business continuity for market infrastructures: the key issues |
Thursday
Day 4 - 10 September
“Casual day”
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(Venue: Commerzbank Building, Neue Mainzer Strasse 32-36)
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| 9 a.m. to 11.30 a.m. |
Workshops
There will be six workshops, on three different topics:
- two workshops on new payment methods – what are the issues in mobile payments?;
- two workshops on current challenges in the conduct of oversight; and
- two workshops on cost recovery and pricing in central bank payment and settlement services.
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(Venue: Eurotower, Kaiserstrasse 29)
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| 12.30 to 2.15 p.m. |
Reporting to the whole meeting on the findings of the workshops, followed by a discussion on observations of importance for central banks |
| 2.30 p.m. |
Outing |
Friday
Day 5 - 11 September
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(Venue: Eurotower, Kaiserstrasse 29) |
| 9 a.m. |
Initiatives towards improved securities services in Europe
|
| 9.45 a.m. |
TARGET2-Securities – settlement in central bank money of securities transactions in Europe |
| 11.15 a.m. |
The Eurosystem collateral framework and the move towards integrated |
| 1.30 p.m. |
Panel discussion: What should be the role of central banks in relation to retail payments? |
| 3 p.m. |
Common work by G10 central banks on payment systems issues – the Committee on Payment and Settlement Systems (CPSS) |
| 4.00 p.m. |
General conclusions and closing of the seminar |

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