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Payment and settlement
- A brief introduction to the Real-Time Gross Settlement system and CHAPS
- Additional Board member biographies
- Banking services
- CHAPS
- Guide to the Bank of England’s ‘UK spending on credit and debit cards experimental data series
- Cross-border payments
- Extended CHAPS/CREST settlement day - frequently asked questions
- Background information about invoking the Market Infrastructure Resiliency Service (MIRS) as a contingency solution for RTGS and CHAPS settlement
- Payment and settlement statistics
- Self-assessment of the Bank of England’s Real-Time Gross Settlement and CHAPS services against the Principles for Financial Market Infrastructures
- Self-assessment of the Bank of England’s Real-Time Gross Settlement and CHAPS services against the Principles for Financial Market Infrastructures 2023
- RTGS and CHAPS fees
- Future Roadmap for RTGS
- RTGS operating hours review
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RTGS Renewal Programme
- Additional Guidance: Detail on Mandating ISO 20022 Enhanced Data in CHAPS
- RTGS career opportunities
- Change Management Framework for the CHAPS and RTGS ISO 20022 implementation
- Functionality of the new RTGS service
- Industry engagement
- ISO 20022: Implementing the global payments messaging standard within CHAPS and RTGS
- ISO 20022 Handbook
- Roadmap for RTGS beyond 2024: industry co-creation
- RTGS Renewal Programme news
- The renewed RTGS service – key benefits
- Summary of RTGS daily timetable
Documents
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payments
- A blueprint for a new RTGS service for the UK (pdf 1.5MB)
- A new RTGS service for the United Kingdom: safeguarding stability, enabling innovation (pdf 1.3MB)
- Background information invoking MIRS - added as a pdf for printing (pdf 0.2MB)
- Bank of England Omnibus Accounts - Access Policy (pdf 0.6MB)
- Settlement accounts and services policy (pdf 0.2MB)
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chaps
- Annual Summary of Payment Statistics 2018 (pdf 0.2MB)
- CHAPS APP scam reporting template (xlsx 0.1MB)
- CHAPS reimbursement rules (August 2024 draft) (pdf 0.3MB)
- CHAPS clearing statistics annual summary 2017 (pdf 0.1MB)
- CHAPS indirect participants – CHAPS reimbursement rules (pdf 0.3MB)
- CHAPS quarterly statistical report Q1 2018 (pdf 0.9MB)
- CHAPS quarterly statistical report Q1 2019 (pdf 0.8MB)
- CHAPS quarterly statistical report Q2 2018 (pdf 0.9MB)
- CHAPS quarterly statistical report Q3 2018 (pdf 1.1MB)
- CHAPS quarterly statistical report Q4 2018 (pdf 1MB)
- CHAPS reference manual - change control register (pdf 0.3MB)
- CHAPS reference manual (pdf 1.4MB)
- CHAPS reference manual – new version from January 2022 (pdf 2.3MB)
- CHAPS reimbursement rules – Annex 1 to the CHAPS Reference Manual (pdf 0.2MB)
- CHAPS reimbursement rules – explanatory notes and reporting processes (pdf 0.2MB)
- CHAPS Strategic Advisory Forum - 23 April 2018 (pdf 0.2MB)
- CHAPS Strategic Advisory Forum - 25 January 2019 (pdf 0.1MB)
- CHAPS Strategic Advisory Forum - 5 July 2018 (pdf 0.1MB)
- CHAPS Strategic Advisory Forum - 8 October 2018 (pdf 0.1MB)
- Terms of reference for CHAPS Strategic Advisory Forum - July 2019 (pdf 0.1MB)
- CHAPS technical requirements (pdf 0.3MB)
- Historical monthly CHAPS statistics (updated to October 2024) (xls 0.2MB)
- Continuity of Access to FMIs: RTGS/CHAPS questionnaire response (pdf 0.3MB)
- Supporting Information: Continuity of Access to RTGS/CHAPS (pdf 0.1MB)
- Extending the CHAPS and CREST settlement day: May 2015 report (pdf 0.4MB)
- Liquidity saving mechanism user guide (pdf 1.1MB)
- Extended settlement day market-wide forum documents (pdf 1.6MB)
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Payment Systems Oversight Reports
- Payment Systems Oversight Report - 2004 (pdf 0.9MB)
- Payment Systems Oversight Report - 2005 (pdf 1.1MB)
- Payment Systems Oversight Report - 2006 (pdf 2.6MB)
- Annex to Payment Systems Oversight Report - 2006 (pdf 1.8MB)
- Payment Systems Oversight Report - 2007 (pdf 2.7MB)
- Annex to Payment Systems Oversight Report - 2007 (pdf 1.9MB)
- Payment Systems Oversight Report - 2008 (pdf 1.4MB)
- Annex to Payment Systems Oversight Report - 2008 (pdf 0.5MB)
- Payment Systems Oversight Report - 2010 (pdf 0.3MB)
- Payment Systems Oversight Report - 2011 (pdf 0.3MB)
- Payment Systems Oversight Report - 2012 (pdf 0.2MB)
- Record of the ISO 20022 Data Working Group on Purpose Codes (March 18) (pdf 0.2MB)
- Terms of Reference for Extended Operating Hours co-creation group (pdf 0.1MB)
- Terms of Reference for Resilient Channels co-creation group (pdf 0.1MB)
- Terms of Reference for Synchronisation co-creation group (pdf 0.1MB)
- Self-assessment of RTGS and CHAPS - December 2018 (pdf 1.6MB)
- Self-assessment of RTGS and CHAPS - December 2019 (pdf 1.2MB)
- Self-assessment of RTGS and CHAPS - December 2020 (pdf 0.6MB)
- Self-assessment of RTGS and CHAPS – December 2021 (pdf 1.3MB)
- Self-assessment of the Bank of England’s Real-Time Gross Settlement and CHAPS services against the Principles for Financial Market Infrastructures (pdf 0.6MB)
- Self-assessment of the Bank of England’s Real-Time Gross Settlement and CHAPS services against the Principles for Financial Market Infrastructures 2023 (pdf 0.6MB)
- RTGS and CHAPS Service Description (pdf 1.1MB)
- RTGS - Call for interest: Synchronised settlement in central bank money (pdf 0.6MB)
- Real-Time Gross Settlement (RTGS) and CHAPS Annual Report 2019 (pdf 1.4MB)
- Real-Time Gross Settlement (RTGS) and CHAPS Annual Report 2020 (pdf 1.3MB)
- Real-Time Gross Settlement (RTGS) and CHAPS Annual Report 2021 (pdf 1.7MB)
- A brief introduction to RTGS and CHAPS (pdf 0.7MB)
- RTGS accounts terms and conditions plus Annexes (zip 3.1MB)
- Self-assessment of RTGS - July 2016 (pdf 1.1MB)
- Self-assessment of RTGS - October 2017 (pdf 1.2MB)
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rtgs-renewal-programme
- Change request form - March 2024 (docx 0.1MB)
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data-working-group
- Record of meeting of the 3rd Data Working Group (pdf 0.3MB)
- Record of meeting of the 4th Data Working Group (Jan 18) (pdf 0.2MB)
- Record of the first Data Working Group Oct 17 (pdf 0.2MB)
- Record of meeting of the 2nd Data Working Group (Nov 17) (pdf 0.3MB)
- Record of meeting of the 5th Data Working Group - March 2018 (pdf 0.2MB)
- RTGS Renewal Programme External Advisory Body – Terms of Reference (pdf 0.2MB)
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interoperability-working-group
- Interoperability Working Group - ToR (pdf 0.2MB)
- Record of the first ISO 20022 Interoperability Working Group (Nov 17) (pdf 0.2MB)
- Record of the first ISO Interoperability working group - April 2018 (pdf 0.1MB)
- Record of the fourth ISO 20022 Interoperability Working Group (Feb 18) (pdf 0.2MB)
- Record of the second Interoperability Working Group (Dec 17) (pdf 0.2MB)
- Record of the third Interoperability Working Group (Jan 18) (pdf 0.4MB)
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iso-20022
- Bank of England CHAPS Enhanced ISO 20022 Messages - Industry Review (pdf 1.1MB)
- CHAPS enhanced to Like-for-like Additional Technical Guidance (pdf 0.4MB)
- CHAPS ISO 20022 migration: Draft “like-for-like” schemas review (pdf 2MB)
- CHAPS ISO 20022 migration: implementation update (September 2019) (pdf 0.6MB)
- ISO 20022 change requests 8 May 2024 (pdf 0.3MB)
- ISO 20022 change requests 29 July 2024 [Set B] (pdf 0.2MB)
- CHAPS & RTGS ISO 20022 migration revised approach and final schemas (pdf 1.4MB)
- Consultation on the draft UK Purpose Code List (pdf 1.5MB)
- Euro Liquidity Bridge – changes for CHAPS Direct Participants ahead of ISO 20022 (pdf 0.2MB)
- ISO 20022 Industry Q&A - December 2018 (pdf 0.5MB)
- ISO 20022 Property Sector Market Guidance (pdf 0.9MB)
- ISO 20022 consultation paper: a global standard to modernise UK payments (June 2018) (pdf 2.7MB)
- ISO 20022 consultation response paper: a global standard to modernise UK payments (November 2018) (pdf 1.7MB)
- ISO 20022 corporate sector market guidance (pdf 0.9MB)
- ISO 20022 Data Working Group ToR (pdf 0.2MB)
- ISO 20022 Factsheet (pdf 0.7MB)
- Migration approach of non-payment messages to the ISO 20022 messaging standard (pdf 1.2MB)
- Collaboration between Pay.UK and the Bank of England on ISO 20022 payment messages (pdf 0.5MB)
- Questions and clarifications (August 2018) (pdf 0.3MB)
- ISO 20022 - Who we have worked with so far (pdf 0.1MB)
- List of users who are authorised to access the Readiness Portal (pdf 0.1MB)
- Mitigating risk of data truncation in CHAPS messages for a limited time period (pdf 0.7MB)
- Policy Statement Implementing ISO 20022 Enhanced data in CHAPS January 2022 (pdf 1.6MB)
- Purpose Code consultation response (pdf 0.7MB)
- Consultation response on Purpose Codes in ISO 20022 Payment Messaging (pdf 0.3MB)
- UK recommended Purpose Code list (pdf 0.3MB)
- The value of the Legal Entity Identifier for the payments industry article (pdf 0.7MB)
- RTGS Renewal Programme Reporting and Analytics User Survey (pdf 1.4MB)
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round-up
- In Focus: A Look at Canada’s Payments Modernization Journey (pdf 0.2MB)
- RTGS renewal programme round-up - April 2019 (pdf 0.4MB)
- RTGS renewal programme round-up - August 2021 (pdf 1MB)
- RTGS renewal programme round-up - February 2019 (pdf 0.9MB)
- RTGS Renewal programme round-up - February 2020 (pdf 0.4MB)
- RTGS Renewal programme round-up - January 2018 (pdf 0.3MB)
- RTGS Renewal programme round-up - July 2018 (pdf 0.4MB)
- RTGS Renewal programme round-up - July 2020 (pdf 0.4MB)
- RTGS renewal programme round-up - June 2019 (pdf 0.4MB)
- RTGS Renewal programme round-up - June 2020 (pdf 0.4MB)
- RTGS Renewal programme round-up - March 2018 (pdf 0.3MB)
- RTGS Renewal programme round-up - March 2020 (pdf 0.4MB)
- RTGS Renewal programme round-up - May 2018 (pdf 0.5MB)
- RTGS renewal programme round-up - May 2022 (pdf 0.2MB)
- RTGS renewal programme round up - November 2019 (pdf 0.5MB)
- RTGS Renewal programme round-up - November 2020 (pdf 1.1MB)
- RTGS Renewal programme round-up - September 2019 (pdf 0.1MB)
- RTGS renewal programme round-up - December 2018 (pdf 0.7MB)
- RTGS renewal programme round-up - December 2022 (pdf 0.3MB)
- RTGS Renewal programme round-up - February 2023 (pdf 0.1MB)
- RTGS renewal programme round-up - July 2022 (pdf 0.2MB)
- RTGS renewal programme round-up - July 2024 (pdf 0.2MB)
- RTGS renewal programme round-up - May 2023 (pdf 0.1MB)
- RTGS renewal programme round-up - May 2024 (pdf 0.2MB)
- RTGS renewal programme - round up - November 2017 (pdf 0.3MB)
- RTGS renewal programme round-up - September 2018 (pdf 0.4MB)
- RTGS renewal programme round-up - September 2022 (pdf 0.1MB)
- RTGS Renewal - API Update - June 2019 (pdf 0.6MB)
- RTGS Renewal – Background guide to proposed RTGS Functionality – Synchronisation (pdf 1.2MB)
- RTGS Renewal – Synchronisation Engagement Update (pdf 0.6MB)
- Standard Advisory Panel (SAP) forward agenda (pdf 0.1MB)
- RTGS Renewal Programme Senior Sponsors’ Body - terms of reference (pdf 0.2MB)
- Standards Advisory Panel: New Chair appointed (pdf 0.4MB)
- Standards Advisory Panel (SAP) - Terms of Reference (pdf 0.4MB)
- Summary of industry feedback to CHAPS As A Retail Alternative stock-take survey (pdf 1.4MB)
- Terms of Reference for the Renewal Executive Board (pdf 0.5MB)
- Transition Working Group Terms of Reference (pdf 0.2MB)
- Workshops on Roadmap for RTGS beyond 2024: Alternative Channels - PKI/MNAD (pdf 0.2MB)
- Workshops on Roadmap for RTGS beyond 2024: APIs and Reconciliations (pdf 0.2MB)
- Workshops on Roadmap for RTGS beyond 2024: Extended Operating Hours (pdf 0.1MB)
- Workshops on Roadmap for RTGS beyond 2024: Liquidity Generation (pdf 0.1MB)
- Workshops on Roadmap for RTGS beyond 2024: Synchronisation (pdf 0.2MB)
- Workshops on Roadmap for RTGS beyond 2024: Third settlement platform (pdf 0.2MB)
- RTGS Renewal Programme Proof of Concept: Supporting DLT Settlement Models (pdf 0.1MB)
- RTGS Renewal Proof of Concept: Supporting DLT Settlement Models (pdf 0.1MB)
- Progress update on the Banks blueprint for a new RTGS system (pdf 0.2MB)
- Bank of England’s Real-Time Gross Settlement Service: Service Description (pdf 0.7MB)
- Terms of Reference: Standards Advisory Panel (SAP) (pdf 0.2MB)
- Internal application to the Senior Managers Regime (pdf 1.6MB)
- RTGS Account Mandate Terms and Conditions plus Annexes (docx 0.1MB)