The Financial Times

Buiter tackles Target2 (again)

Is the Eurosystem’s Target2 payment system toxic for the people of Germany? Should they be worrying like hell about this (click to expand): Not directly, according to Citigroup’s Willem Buiter, who ...
Yahoo Finance

Italy's Target2 debt falls in October from previous month's record high

MILAN (Reuters) - Italy's liabilities towards other euro zone central banks fell compared with their record high in the previous month, central bank data showed on Tuesday, although it might prove ...
The Financial Times

Target2 balances reflect euro area’s potential to be better than traditional exchange rate peg regime

Simply sign up to the Currencies myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. I have a confession to make: for many years, I never felt comfortable talking about Target2 balances. Recently, ...
Forbes

All You Wanted to Know About TARGET2 But Were Afraid to Ask

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I am an economist specialising in European macro issues. The Eurosystem’s TARGET2 payments system has featured heavily in academic ...
Risk

Target2 ‘fingerprint’ could flag liquidity problems – research

Banks are creatures of habit, especially when it comes to large payments – meaning any departures from the norm can be a sign of operational foul-ups or impending liquidity problems, new research ...
Risk

The absence of evidence and the evidence of absence: an algorithmic approach for identifying operational outages in TARGET2

We develop an algorithm to identify potential operational outages in TARGET2. As stated in the Principles of Financial Market Infrastructures, plausible sources of operational risk should be ...
Nasdaq

Italy's Target2 debt rises to record high in March

MILAN, April 7 (Reuters) - Italy's liabilities towards other euro zone central banks rose to their highest ever level in March, central bank data showed on Friday. Data published by the Bank of Italy ...
Investment Executive

TARGET2 successfully launched, ECB says

The European Central Bank announced the successful launch of the TARGET2, a new central payment system. Today, the Eurosystem launched the new single payment system used for settlement in real time of ...
UBS

Euro Market: TARGET2-Securities - Edition 3

The European post-trade industry is undergoing changes at a rapid pace which will drastically alter the operations of market participants. The market infrastructure initiative TARGET2-Securities (T2S) ...
Finextra

ECB publishes Target2 oversight assessment report and annual update

This content is provided by an external author without editing by Finextra. It expresses the views and opinions of the author. This publication outlines the overall results of the assessment exercise ...
Reuters

Italy's Target2 jumps to new record high in June

MILAN, July 7 (Reuters) - Italy's liabilities towards other euro zone central banks jumped to a new record high in June, central bank data showed on Thursday. Data published by the Bank of Italy ...