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Payment Systems
News
Vienna
has opted for payment by mobile phone rather than install parking
meters
Residents allowed to pay for any of its short-term
parking spaces by mobile phone, under what it calls its M-Parking
system. The Guardian, October 2004.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/story/0,,1331529,00.html
Recent
Publications
http://www.bis.org/publ/cpss62.pdf
Challenges facing the
global payments system
Some of the major priorities over the medium
term in strengthening the safety and soundness and the operational
resilience of the global payments and settlement system, SIBOS
2004 Atlanta Conference. By Timothy F Geithner. http://www.bis.org/review/r041020a.pdf
Events
Upcoming:
RFID in Contactless Payment Systems
Innovative Solutions for Delivering Customer Convenience, Reducing
Cash Handling and Increasing Per Capita Spending. Atlanta, GA,
December 7 - 8, 2004.
http://www.iqpc.com/cgi-bin/templates/document.html?topic=233&event=5740&document=45893&slauID=5&
Recent Events
SIBOS 2004
At the Sibos 2004 conference attendees had the opportunity to
exchange views about how communities can best ensure sustainable
growth despite increasing risks and renewed emphasis on trust.
Atlanta, 11-15 October 2004. http://www.swift.com/index.cfm?Item_id=5569
Payments in the Americas
Hosted by the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta,
focused on the burgeoning remittance market and the policy objective
of facilitating electronic payments and reducing costs to consumers.
Atlanta, October 7–8, 2004.
http://www.frbatlanta.org/invoke.cfm?objectid=C3FA0FAF-05F6-83C3-B429D13375ED8D1F&method=display
Finance Forum 2004 – Presentations
Sharing Best Practices: Payment Systems Reform.
The reform of Payment and Securities Settlement Systems (PSSS)
poses serious challenges for policymakers and market participants,
and the Bank has played an important role recently in helping
clients make informed decisions about this process. World Bank,
Financial Sector, Washington DC, September 2004.
http://www.worldbank.org/wbi/banking/finsecpolicy/financeforum2004/overview.html
Supervising
the technology risks
Conference on Electronic Safety and Soundness. The risks that
the financial sector faces when integrating electronic payment
methods. 2004 Asia Pacific Regional Conference, held in Singapore.
May 2004.
http://wbln0018.worldbank.org/html/FinancialSectorWeb.nsf/SearchGeneral?openform&E-Security/E-Finance&Conferences
Useful
Links
World Bank Payment
Systems
Latest news reports, publications, events, analysis,
policy notes an more related to this topic from official institutions,
international organizations, academia and others.
http://wbln1023.worldbank.org/html/FinancialSectorWeb.nsf/Searchresults1?openform&queryPayments+SystemstypeLinkstopicsortAlphabet
Bank for International
Settlements
The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) is an
international organization which fosters international monetary
and financial cooperation and serves as a bank for central banks.
http://www.bis.org/index.htm
CEMLA
CEMLA’s mission is to promote a greater awareness of
monetary and financial matters throughout the region by means
of training, dissemination and research.
http://www.cemla.org/
World Bank E-Security/E-Finance
This site acts as a clearing
house for knowledge on how to better manage the risks associated
with open network architectures; and to assist Policy makers,
Supervisors, Private Market Participants, and consumers of financial
services to become more educated about the complex trade-offs
and actions needed to manage these risks and protect digital
assets..
http://www1.worldbank.org/finance/
(click on E-security)
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