Fact sheet: Committee on Payment and Settlement Systems

Functions

To monitor and analyse developments in domestic payment, settlement and clearing systems as well as in cross-border and multicurrency systems. The Committee also focuses on standard-setting activities.

Membership

Senior officials responsible for payment and settlement systems in central banks.

Institutions

Reserve Bank of Australia

National Bank of Belgium

Central Bank of Brazil

Bank of Canada

The People's Bank of China

European Central Bank

Bank of France

Deutsche Bundesbank

Hong Kong Monetary Authority

Reserve Bank of India

Bank of Italy

Bank of Japan

Bank of Korea
Bank of Mexico

Netherlands Bank

Monetary Authority of Singapore

Sveriges Riksbank

Swiss National Bank

Central Bank of the Russian Federation
Saudi Arabian Monetary Agency
South African Reserve Bank
Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey

Bank of England

Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
Federal Reserve Bank of New York

Chairman

William C Dudley

Secretariat

Head of Secretariat (Daniel Heller, from February 2009).

Frequency of meetings

The Committee meets three times a year.

Reporting arrangements

No public releases of the meeting agendas or discussions are made. Regular reports on the Committee meetings are made by the Chairman to the Governors of the Global Economy Meeting.

Outreach

The Committee has developed relationships with many non-CPSS central banks in order to help strengthen payment systems globally. This involves a number of different activities including participation by some of the central banks in certain of the Committee's working groups, circulation to central banks worldwide of internal Committee papers on analytical and policy aspects of payment systems, co-organisation of seminars and workshops with regional payment system groups, and publication of reference studies on payment systems in individual countries. In 2009 membership of the CPSS was extended to cover 25 central banks.

 

Further information

www.bis.org/cpss