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Last update: Fri 17 May 2013 19:00
The TARGET2 system opened the new business day and is operating normally.
As scheduled, the night-time settlement will start at 19:30 and the day trade phase at 07:00 of the next calendar day
(but not on a Saturday, Sunday or TARGET2 holiday)
This box will be updated if interruptions impact on payments processing in TARGET2. (During night-time settlement the page will be updated when the TARGET2 day trade phase starts.)
The Eurosystem cannot be held liable for the information provided.
TARGET2 is the real-time gross settlement (RTGS) system owned and operated by the Eurosystem. TARGET stands for Trans-European Automated Real-time Gross settlement Express Transfer system. TARGET2 is the second generation of TARGET.
Payment transactions are settled one by one on a continuous basis in central bank money with immediate finality. There is no upper or lower limit on the value of payments. TARGET2 mainly settles operations of monetary policy and money market operations.
TARGET2 has to be used for all payments involving the Eurosystem, as well as for the settlement of operations of all large-value net settlement systems and securities settlement systems handling the euro.
TARGET2 is operated on a single technical platform. The business relationships are established between the TARGET2 users and their National Central Bank. In terms of the value processed, TARGET2 is one of the largest payment systems in the world.
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