T2 is the TARGET Service for the liquidity management of all TARGET Services and the settlement of individual payments. It consists of the components CLM (Central Liquidity Management) and RTGS (Real-Time-Gross-Settlement).

The Eurosystem’s monetary policy from 2020 was shaped by the global outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic and the surge in inflation from 2021. This ultimately led to a series of Eurosystem policy rate hikes totalling 450 basis points (from July 2022 to September 2023).

Market risk is the risk of losses in on- and off-balance sheet risk positions arising from movements in market prices. Under the Capital Requirements Regulation (CRR), credit institutions are required to hold own funds for market risk to cover foreign exchange risk and commodities risk in their non-trading and trading books as well as position risk (risk of positions in debt and equity instruments) in their trading book. They can use either the standardised approach or internal risk models to calculate their market risk.

Der EZB-Rat hat beschlossen, weitere LTRO, genannt PELTRO (Pandemic emergency longer-term refinancing operation) durchzuführen, um die Liquiditätsbedingungen im Euroraum zu unterstützen und einen Beitrag zu leisten, das Funktionieren der Geldmärkte sicher zu stellen.

Pursuant to Eurosystem rules, auctions may be used alongside bilateral transactions as a supplementary procedure for specific market segments under the public sector purchase programme (PSPP). Within this framework, the Bundesbank conducts one multi-ISIN auction covering up to 10 securities on the second and fourth Thursday of every month. Advance notice for the auctions is issued on the Friday prior to the relevant auction.

Der EZB-Rat hat beschlossen, zur Unterstützung der Bankenliquidität und der Geldmarktaktivitäten vorübergehend zusätzliche längerfristige Refinanzierungsgeschäfte (additional longer-term refinancing operations - LTRO) durchzuführen.