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

Here you can find the SEPA procedural rules for the clearing and settlement in the RPS SEPA-Clearer (credit transfers, direct debits and card payments).

Account holders without a bank sort code can submit CAM payments via the following means of communication, EBICS (Electronic Banking Internet Communication Standard) and FinTS/Online banking.

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.

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.

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.

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.

High-resolution image files are available for download at the pictures archive of the DM coin and banknote collection of the Deutsche Bundesbank.