BIS Committee on Payment and Settlement Systems Gets New Members
Posted by Alexandra on September 5, 2009
The BIS CPSS gets a bunch of new members. The central banks of Australia, Brazil, China, India, Mexico, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa and South Korea have decided to join the BIS commitee which describes itself in the following way:
The Committee on Payment and Settlement Systems (CPSS) serves as a forum for central banks to monitor and analyse developments in domestic payment, clearing and settlement systems as well as in cross-border and multicurrency settlement schemes. This note reviews the history and organisation of the CPSS, the Committee’s standard-setting activities and the analytical reports published by the CPSS.
The BIS and with it the CPSS are located in Basel, Switzerland.
The current members are (source BIS)
| National Bank of Belgium |
| Bank of Canada |
| European Central Bank |
| Bank of France |
| Deutsche Bundesbank |
| Hong Kong Monetary Authority |
| Bank of Italy |
| Bank of Japan |
| Netherlands Bank |
| Monetary Authority of Singapore |
| Sveriges Riksbank |
| Swiss National Bank |
| Bank of England |
| Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System Federal Reserve Bank of New York |
The move is expected to
[E]nhance the Committee’s ability to contribute to financial stability through improvements to the global payments and settlement infrastructure. The expansion will also help the Committee keep oversight practices and standards in line with market developments and with increasing interdependencies among financial market infrastructures.
the BIS said in a press release on July 24, 2009.
