Seminar: "Payment Systems and Market Infrastructures in the EU; Policy, Operation, Oversight: the Bank of Italy's Experience"Rome, 14-16 December 2016

The seminar on payment systems is the fourth and last of the Bank of Italy 2016 technical cooperation seminars programme.

The seminar aims to improve participants’ knowledge of EU payment systems and market infrastructures from a policy, operational, technical and oversight point of view. Considering the role played by the European System of Central Banks (ESCB) in this field, the seminar will look at the services offered in large-value payment systems, TARGET2, and in the securities clearing and settlement systems, TARGET2-Securities (T2S), as well as the oversight functions performed by the Bank of Italy and its involvement in retail payment services and instruments within the Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA).

Presentations will be supplemented with a visit to the Service Desk of the TARGET2-T2S Single Shared Platform (SSP), the Eurosystem’s Financial Market Infrastructure jointly operated by the Bank of Italy and the Deutsche Bundesbank.