On 27 February 2025, TARGET Services suffered a major operational incident affecting the infrastructure through which central-bank money, securities and collateral move across Europe. TARGET Services comprise: T2, which processes high-value euro payments; TARGET2-Securities, which provides securities settlement; TARGET Instant Read More …
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Target Services Outage Case Study
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