Principles for Financial Market Infrastructures

The Principles for Financial Market Infrastructures (PFMIs) were established as a result of the joint efforts of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) - Technical Staff of the Committee on Payment and Settlement System (CPSS) and the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) to strengthen core financial infrastructures and markets. The principles in three (3) sets of standards: 10 Core Principles for Systemically Important Payment Systems, 19 Recommendations for Securities Settlement (RSSS), and 15 Recommendations for Central Counterparties (RCCP) were harmonized to come up with a single set of standards that will cover all relevant financial market infrastructures: payment systems, central securities depositories, central counterparties ad trade repositories

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