Payments

Paying securely

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.

Euro banknotes and coins

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.

Exchanging guilders

Non-cash payments

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.

Collateral provision and eligible assets

Business continuity planning

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

One of the tasks of the Nederlandsche Bank (DNB) is oversight. The oversight task is focused on two goals which aim at contributing to DNB's-wide goal of financial stability. These goals are contributing to the reduction of the systemic risk as far as it will arise out of the payments en securities relevant for the Netherlands and to promote smooth operation of the the Dutch payments.

SEPA Netherlands – working with the euro countries towards a single European payment system

The introduction of SEPA in the Netherlands and the other euro countries is creating unity in European payments. De Nederlandsche Bank (DNB) is there to provide you with the information you need.

MOB (The National Forum on the Payment System)

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.