9th ECB seminar on Payment and Settlement Issues for Central Banks

Time: 7-11 September 2009
Venue: European Central Bank, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Topics:

• Economic concepts
• The role of central banks in payment and settlement systems
• Card schemes and card payments
• The Eurosystem oversight policy framework for payments and securities
• Parallel sessions:
  
  • The Eurosystem retail payments oversight
  • Issues in network services for market infrastructures
• There will be six workshops, on three different topics:
  
  • Two workshops on new payment methods – what are the issues in mobile payments?
  • Two workshops on current challenges in the conduct of oversight
  • Two workshops on cost recovery and pricing in central bank payment and settlement services
• Panel discussion: What should be the role of central banks in relation to retail payments?
• And more ............