Committee on Payments and Market Infrastructures Reports on Interlinking and Interoperability of Payment Systems

The Committee on Payments and Market Infrastructures has published two reports to the G20 that offer key insights and recommendations on the interlinking and interoperability of payment systems to enhance cross-border payments. The first report, Linking fast payment systems across borders: governance and oversight, aims to support owners and operators of faster payment services when they are developing the governance and risk management of their faster payment services interlinking arrangement as well as overseers when they are defining their oversight approach. The report discusses the main decisions to be taken by operators in developing the governance approach for faster payment services interlinking arrangements. The report also sets out recommendations that overseers should consider when developing an oversight approach for the respective component faster payment services or a separate entity.

The second report, Promoting the harmonisation of application programming interfaces to enhance cross-border payments: recommendations and toolkit, presents the recommendations of the API Panel of Experts on the prioritization of harmonization. The report makes ten recommendations, divided into four categories: (i) recommendations that aim at facilitating the global API harmonization processes; (ii) recommendations that focus on API design principles and the use of existing international data standards; (iii) recommendations to enhance the developer experience; and (iv) recommendations to promote pre-validation APIs and implementation. Each recommendation is accompanied by a list of potential actions that stakeholders may consider as practical and concrete implementation measures. The recommendations are further supported by a toolkit to assist various stakeholders in assessing their current related practices.

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