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Payments and Market Infrastructure research asks where physical and digital single points of failure sit, how long critical functions could be interrupted, how liquidity behaves when a participant or provider fails and what settlement compression changes.

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What the research asks.

  1. 01

    Retail and wholesale payments

    Payment rails and economic continuity.

  2. 02

    Clearing and settlement

    Settlement exposures and infrastructure.

  3. 03

    Central counterparty risk

    CCPs, collateral and liquidity.

  4. 04

    Cross border payments

    Interoperability and failure modes.

  5. 05

    Payment cyber security

    Operational integrity and threat exposure.

  6. 06

    Third party concentration

    Cloud, identity and outsourced ezinqamula.

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Questions, methods and limits.

UmbuzoMethodUmkhawulo
Where do infrastructures share sites and providers?Mapping from public disclosuresSites often confidential
How far would a participant default propagate?Network and liquidity simulationSynthetic networks
What does T+1 do to fails and funding?Review of post-change supervisory reportsFew episodes
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