Payments

A stable financial system strongly depends on secure and reliable payment systems. Everybody must be able to pay in shops without a problem and transfer money to third parties from home by means of electronic or paper payment orders. And large payments between financial institutions must be processed securely and without disruptions.

De Nederlandsche Bank (DNB) is responsible for the issue of banknotes in the Netherlands. Minting and circulating coins, however, is the responsibility of the Ministry of Finance.

The Netherlandsche Bank’s non-cash payments services include automatic processing of money transfers and managing accounts and balances for financial institutions. For this purpose TARGET2 is used.

Business continuity planning (BCP) is an integrated framework of measures intended to enable an institution to continue its critical operations (i.e. ICT and operations) in case of incidents. Since the events of 11 September 2001, the area of BCP and crisis management has seen rapid and momentous developments.

Oversight is one of the tasks of the Nederlandsche Bank (DNB). Oversight is focused on two goals which aim at contributing to DNB's-wide goal of financial stability. These goals are to prevent the systemic risk insofar it may arise out of payments and securities clearing and settlement that is relevant for the Netherlands and to promote smooth operation of the Dutch payment system.

Met de invoering van de Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA) in Nederland en de andere eurolanden ontstaat er eenheid op de Europese betaalmarkt. De Nederlandsche Bank (DNB) voorziet u van de nodige informatie.

The National Forum on the Payment System (known by its Dutch acronym MOB) promotes the efficiency of the Dutch payments system for consumers, retailers and banks.