Definition: Interbank funds transfer system

Category: ECB terminology

Formal arrangement, based on private contract or statutory law, with multiple membership, common rules and standardised arrangements for the transmission and settlement of money obligations arising between members, in which most or all direct participants are credit institutions and which is used primarily to process cashless payments. http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2007:341:0001:0232:EN:PDF
Source:
European Central Bank, Guideline of the European Central Bank of 1 August 2007 on monetary, financial institutions and markets statistics (recast), Official Journal of the European Union No L 341, 27.12.2007, p. 1 - 232
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