Payments and Market Infrastructure
The Global Risks Alliance (GRA)
Who takes part in Payments and Market Infrastructure, what they contribute and how moderation and privacy work.
The Payments and Market Infrastructure community is the network of payment-system researchers and FMI professionals who contribute expertise, review and data to its work on financial stability, cyber and digital resilience, and digital public infrastructure. They take part through moderated subject groups and working groups. Rules apply equally to all, interests are declared, and taking part gives no authority over findings.
Fig.The path from an enquiry to a credited contribution. Design, not a record; no step creates membership.
For professional community, in GRA's spatial-finance reading, the map opens on population density and night lights with built-up and settlement extent from NASA GIBS, framed on the United Kingdom and Ireland; every other NASA layer, live feed and forecast waits in the layer list.
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For professional community, in GRA's spatial-finance reading, the map opens on population density and night lights with built-up and settlement extent from NASA GIBS, framed on the United Kingdom and Ireland; every other NASA layer, live feed and forecast waits in the layer list.Satellite and model products as NASA publishes them, each with its own date; indicators, not assessments of any place; claim ceiling INTEGRATED.
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Payment-system researchers; FMI professionals; settlement technologists.
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| Profession | Typical question they bring to Payments and Market Infrastructure |
|---|---|
| FMI risk and operations staff | Where is gridlock risk? |
| Payment system overseers | How diverse are sites? |
| Settlement technologists | What does ISO 20022 change? |
| Payment researchers | Where is gridlock risk? |
The themes proposed for Payments and Market Infrastructure are settlement networks, site diversity and messaging migration. Each would run only once moderation, terms and a written competition policy are in place, and none would discuss operation of any system.
Each term as this page uses it. Where a standard-setting body defines the term, the wording follows that body.
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Community of practice | A group of people who share a concern or a craft and learn to do it better by interacting regularly; the term comes from Lave and Wenger's work on situated learning. |
| Conflict of interest | A situation in which financial, professional or personal interests could compromise, or appear to compromise, judgement in research or review. |
| Personal data | Any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person, directly or indirectly, such as a name, an identification number, location data or an online identifier, as the EU General Data Protection Regulation defines it. |
| Settlement finality | The point at which a transfer becomes irrevocable and unconditional in law. |
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The current service level is R0: information and enquiries. An enquiry receives a reference and names the next step; applications, payments, compute allocations and registrations open only when their team, terms and review capacity exist.