Major transformations in payment and settlements have occurred in generations. The first generation was paper-based. Delivery times for payment instruments took several days domestically and weeks internationally. The second generation involved computerization with batch processing. Links...

Chapter 1 Harry Leinonen Introduction 9 Chapter 2 Kimmo Soramäki - Walter Beyeler - Morten Bech - Rober Glass New approaches for payment system simulation research 15 Chapter 3 Fabien Renault - Jean-Baptiste Pecceu From PNS to TARGET2: the cost of FIFO in RTGS payment system 41 Chapter 4...

This publication consists of ten separate studies on payment and settlement systems employing simulation techniques. Most of these were carried out using the payment and settlement system simulator BoF-PSS2 provided by the Bank of Finland. The preliminary versions were presented at the annual...

The simulation technique provides a new means for analysing complex interdependencies in payment and securities settlement processing. The Bank of Finland has developed a payment and settlement system simulator (BoF-PSS2) that can be used for constructing simulation models of payment and...