Processing of retail payments: Services of Deutsche Bundesbank Department Payments and Settlement System © Martin Barraud © gettyimages/George Doyle Processing of retail payments Page 2 Processing of retail payments: services offered by the Bundesbank With its retail payment system (RPS), the Deutsche – The RPS cheque processing service processes cheque Bundesbank provides the banking industry with a cost- payments denominated in euros between German effective, high-performance platform for non-urgent domestic credit institutions. domestic and cross-border euro payment transactions. Public authorities also process their payments via the Bundesbank. These payments can either be submitted The RPS consists of the SEPA-Clearer processing services electronically via the Customer Access Mechanism as well as the RPS cheque processing service. (HBV-SEPA) or in paper form. – The SEPA credit transfers, SEPA direct debits and SCC The Bundesbank is valued as a reliable and neutral partner collections submitted by credit institutions are pro- by both the banking industry and the public sector for cessed via the SEPA-Clearer. the processing of retail payments. Europe-wide accessibility via the RPS SEPA-Clearer All credit institutions which have signed the SEPA Ad- other European clearing houses including Clearing herence Agreements of the European Payments Council Service International of the Österreichische National- (SEPA credit transfer and/or SEPA direct debit) or the bank (OeNB), the Spanish clearing house Iberpay, the Girocard agreement of the German Banking Industry Dutch clearing house Equens S.E. and the Bulgarian Committee (SCC collections) are allowed to participate payment system operator Borica-Bankservice. Further in the SEPA-Clearer. The connection to the SEPA-Clearer payment markets are accessed via the direct SEPA-Clearer can be made either directly1 or indirectly2. participation of various national central banks. In addition, the Bundesbank is a direct participant in the SCT and Payments for credit institutions which are neither direct SDD services of EBA CLEARING‘s STEP2 clearing house. nor indirect participants in the SEPA-Clearer are forwarded SCC collections are exchanged on the basis of a bilate- via other clearing infrastructures. For such purposes, ral cooperation between the Bundesbank and EBA the Bundesbank has direct bilateral links to various CLEARING. 1 Credit institutions within the meaning of Article 4 (1) of Directive 2013/575/EC 2 Credit institutions within the meaning of Article 4 (1) of Directive 2013/575/EC as well as other payment service providers Processing of retail payments Page 3 Europe-wide accessibility via the SEPA-Clearer Euro area – 339 mn. inhabitants – 582 mn. overnight deposits – 203 mn. payments per day – 6.203 payment service providers EU-28 – 510 mn. inhabitants – 688 mn. overnight deposits (2014) – 312 mn. payments per day – 8.046 payment service providers EPC* Plan for SEPA EU-28 + EEA countries + Switzerland + Monaco + San Marino – 524 mn. inhabitants ECB Statistical Data Warehouse 26 September 2016 (statistics of 2015) The processing logic of the SEPA-Clearer Payment processing in the RPS SEPA-Clearer is conducted Settlements are carried out in accordance with the gross in accordance with the TARGET2 calendar. German settlement principle for each submitted or delivered national and regional public holidays, which are not logical fi le. TARGET2 holidays, are not taken into account. When delivering payments, account is taken of any Submission and delivery of transactions is only possible routing order which may have been set up based on by means of electronic data transmission. The EBICS the Business Identifi er Code (BIC). and SWIFTNet FileAct communication procedures are available for this purpose. Every participant receives separate reconciliation fi les for each of the SEPA-Clearer services used (SEPA credit trans- Various submission windows are supported for SEPA fers, SEPA core direct debits, SEPA business to business credit transfers, SEPA direct debits and SCC card collec- direct debits, SCC collections) at the close of a business tions over the course of the business day. Payments are day (around 22.00). These so called daily reconciliation generally settled and delivered following the cut-off reports contain a compilation of all the successfully sub- time of the individual submission window. Accounts in the mitted and delivered payment fi les from that business TARGET2 payments module are used for the settlement. day. A participant can use a settlement agent if desired. Processing of retail payments Page 4 Processing of SEPA credit transfers via the RPS SEPA-Clearer The settlement and delivery of processed SEPA credit 13.15 onwards. SEPA credit transfers submitted between transfers takes place directly after cut-off of the respec- 13.00 and 15.00 of the current business day are settled tive submission window. and delivered from around 15.15 onwards. All SEPA credit transfers submitted after 20.00 on the The SEPA-Clearer business day changes during the sub- previous day and by 08.00 on the current banking busi- sequent submission window. SEPA credit transfers sub- ness day are delivered and settled from around 08.15 mitted between 15.00 and 20.00 are delivered as of onwards using the date of the current banking business around 20.15. These payments are settled in accordance day. SEPA credit transfers submitted between 08.00 with the business day change in TARGET2, using the and 10.00 are settled and delivered from around 10.15 following business day‘s value date (D+1). onwards. SEPA credit transfers submitted between 10.00 and 11.00 are settled and delivered from around In addition, SEPA credit transfers submitted by other 11.15 onwards. For SEPA credit transfers submitted clearing houses till 16.00 or 17.00 are settled and deli- between 11.00 and 13.00, this takes place from around vered from around 16.15 and 17.15 onwards. D 1 Calender day D 20:00 ... 24:00 ... 8:00 9:00 10:00 11:00 12:00 13:00 14:00 15:00 16:00 17:00 18:00 19:00 20:00 ... Processing windows (submissions of other CSM only) Sub Delivery mis. Settlement Settlement day D Sub Delivery mis. Settlement Verarbeitungsfenster (Einreichungen von Banken und Clearinghäuser) Delivery Submission Settlement Submission Delivery Settlement Sub Delivery mis. Settlement Delivery Submission Settlement Delivery Submission Settlement Delivery D+1 Submission Settlement Processing of retail payments Page 5 Processing of SEPA direct debits via the RPS SEPA-Clearer With regard to the settlement of SEPA direct debits, it direct debits submitted between 08.00 and 10.00 on should be noted that the delivery and settlement of the current business day are delivered from around payment messages is usually handled at different times. 10.15 onwards. SEPA core direct debits submitted Aside from this, it is important to differentiate between between 10.00 and 15.00 are delivered from around SEPA core direct debits and SEPA business to business 15.15 onwards. SEPA core direct debits submitted direct debits. between 15.00 and 20.00 on the current business day are delivered from around 20.15 onwards. In addition, All SEPA core direct debits submitted after 20.00 on the SEPA core direct debits submitted by other clearing previous day and by 08.00 on the current business day houses till 17.00 are delivered from around 17.15 are delivered from around 08.15 onwards. SEPA core onwards. D 1 Calendar day D 20:00 ... 24:00 ... 8:00 9:00 10:00 11:00 12:00 13:00 14:00 15:00 16:00 17:00 18:00 19:00 20:00 ... Processing window (submission of other CDM only) Submission Delivery Clearing day D Processing window (submissions of banks and other CMS) Submission Delivery Submission Delivery Submission Delivery D+1 Submission Delivery Settlement day B Buchung Settlement Settlement Settlement Settlement Settlement Direct debits R-Transactions R-Transactions R-Transactions R-Transactions R-Transactions All SEPA business to business direct debits submitted during the subsequent submission window between after 20.00 on the previous day and by 08.00 on the 11.00 and 13.00 are delivered from around 13.15 on- current business day are delivered from around 08.15 wards. SEPA business to business direct debits submitted onwards. SEPA business to business direct debits sub- between 13.00 and 20.00 are delivered from around mitted between 08.00 and 10.00 of the current business 20.15 onwards. day are delivered from around 10.15 onwards. SEPA business to business direct debits submitted between In addition, business to business direct debits submitted 10.00 and 11.00 are delivered from around 11.15 on- by other clearing houses till 15.00, 16.00 or 17.00 are wards. SEPA business to business direct debits submitted delivered from around 15.15, 16.15 and 17.15. Processing of retail payments Page 6 D 1 Calendar day D 20:00 ... 24:00 ... 8:00 9:00 10:00 11:00 12:00 13:00 14:00 15:00 16:00 17:00 18:00 19:00 20:00 ... Processing windows (submissions of other CSM only) Sub mis. Delivery Clearing day D Sub mis. Delivery Sub mis. Delivery Processing window (submissions of banks and other CMS) Submission Delivery Submission Delivery Sub mis Delivery Submission Delivery D+1 Einreichung Delivery Buchung Settlement day B Settlement Direct debits actions actions actions actions actions actions actions R-Trans- R-Trans- R-Trans- R-Trans- R-Trans- R-Trans- R-Trans- R-Transactions Settlement Settlement Settlement Settlement Settlement Settlement Settlement The settlement of submitted SEPA core direct debits day before the interbank settlement date stated in the and business to business direct debits takes place at the dataset of the payment message, with the exception of individual interbank settlement dates of the payments.