Seventh ECB seminar on payment and settlement issues for central banks

Frankfurt am Main,
04 - 07 September 2007

Venue:
Eurotower, Room C IV, 2nd floor.

Tentative Programme

 Tuesday, 4 September 2007
 Wednesday, 5 September 2007
 Thursday, 6 September 2007
 Friday, 7 September 2007

Day 1 - Tuesday, 4 September

08:30	Registration
09:00	Opening of the Seminar
09:15	The role of central banks in payment and settlement systems: operator, overseer and facilitator
10:00	The ECB, the Eurosystem and the European System of Central Banks
10:45 -11:15	Tea & Coffee break
11:15	Concepts and risks in the field of payments
12:00	The payment systems landscape in the euro area
12:45 -14:15	Lunch
14:15	Concepts and risks in the field of securities clearing and settlement
15:00	The processing of securities in the euro area
15:45 -16:15	Tea & Coffee break
16:15 -17:15	The Monetary Policy implementation of the Eurosystem
17:20	Official photograph of the seminar
19:00	Dinner

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Day 2 - Wednesday, 5 September

09:00	The legal foundations for payment and settlement systems
09:45	Eurosystem oversight policies & practices
10:45 -11:15	Tea & Coffee break
11:15	SWIFT
12:00	The internal consolidation of TARGET: the TARGET2 project
12:45 -14:15	Lunch
14:15	The CLS system
15:00	The T2S project
15:45 -16:15	Tea & Coffee break
16:15	The Eurosystem collateral framework
17:00 - 17:45	Central counterparty clearing

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Day 3 - Thursday, 6 September

09:00 - 12:00	Workshops There will be six workshops working on three different topics: two workshops will work on the topic of new payment methods; two workshops will work on a subject related to oversight and; two workshops will work on the issue of pricing and cost recovery in central bank payment and settlement services
12:10	Lunch and outing
16:00	Reporting to the whole meeting on the findings of the workshops, followed by a discussion on observations important for central banks Feed-back from workshops 1- 6
19.00	Dinner

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Day 4 - Friday, 7 September

09:00	Business continuity for market infrastructures: the key issues
09:45	The Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA)
10:30 - 11:00	Tea & Coffee break
11:00	Card schemes and card payments
11:45	Panel discussion: What should be the role of central banks in retail payment systems?
13:00 -14:30	Lunch
14:30	Common work by G-10 central banks on payment systems issues
15:15	G10 reports on payment system development and on remittances
16:00 - 16:30	General conclusions and closing of the seminar

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