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Development
The objective of the Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA) is to implement schemes and standards for euro payments in the future. For reasons of efficiency, it is not practical to have national schemes and the SEPA scheme operating in parallel over the long term. This is also consistent with the long-term aim of SEPA, namely to abolish existing national payment schemes.
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SEPA card payments
The SEPA Cards Framework; SCF defines the standards to be met by payment service providers, card systems and other market participants in order for card payments and cash withdrawals within the Single Euro Payments Area to be processed as quickly, safely and efficiently as they are in the home country
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DM Banknotes and coins Historic coin and banknote collection
High-resolution image files are available for download at the pictures archive of the DM coin and banknote collection of the Deutsche Bundesbank.
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Scope of services WebEDI/Filetransfer
WebEDI is a WWW interface for electronic data exchange.
In the following scheme the scope of services of the two ways of gainig access are compared.
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EU committees
The informal Ecofin, an informal meeting of the council of EU economics and finance ministers to which the governors of the national central banks are also invited, takes place twice a year. It takes no formal decisions but is intended as a forum for the free exchange of opinions between the heads of the ministries of finance and central banks.
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Committee on the Global Financial System (CGFS)
The Committee on the Global Financial System (CGFS) is one of the central banks' committees at the BIS. It assists central banks in recognising, analysing and responding to threats to the stability of financial markets and the global financial system.
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Financial Stability Board (FSB)
The Financial Stability Board (FSB) was established in February 1999 as the Financial Stability Forum (FSF) by the ministers of finance and central bank governors of the G7 based on proposals by Hans Tietmeyer, the then president of the Bundesbank. The G20 summit in April 2009 then established the FSB, which has a broader mandate and extended membership.
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Preparation and prevention Recovery and Resolution Act (SAG)
As a general rule, all banks are required to prepare a recovery plan, which must be updated once a year and submitted to the supervisor for review.