IMF Working Papers

The Reform of Wholesale Payment Systems and its Impacton Financial Markets

By Dirk Schoenmaker, Peter M. Garber, D. F. I. Folkerts-Landau

May 1, 1996

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Dirk Schoenmaker, Peter M. Garber, and D. F. I. Folkerts-Landau The Reform of Wholesale Payment Systems and its Impacton Financial Markets, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 1996) accessed November 23, 2024
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Summary

This paper reviews the ongoing efforts to reduce the risks inherent in the world’s principal wholesale payment systems. The paper assesses the major policy proposals to contain the growth in intraday credit exposures that arises in net settlement wholesale payment systems and in the real-time gross systems in which the central bank provides daylight overdrafts. It also discusses the benefits of these risk-management policies, and we assess the adverse impact of applying interest charges for intraday central-bank credit or of collateralizing such credit on liquidity in financial markets.

Subject: Banking, Collateral, Financial institutions, Financial markets, Government securities, Payment systems, Real time gross settlement systems, Securities

Keywords: Collateral, Europe, Global, Government securities, Money market, Opportunity cost, Payment flow, Payment pattern, Payment system, Payment system charge, Payment system liquidity, Payment systems, Payment traffic, Payments problem, Real time gross settlement systems, RTGS payment system, Securities, Securities transaction, Settlement system, System liquidity, Treasury securities, WP

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    54

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Issue:

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  • Series:

    Working Paper No. 1996/037

  • Stock No:

    WPIEA0371996

  • ISBN:

    9781451845525

  • ISSN:

    1018-5941

Notes

This paper is forthcoming as a G-30 Discussion Paper.

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