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(CHAPS)
(CHAPS)


A UK-based payment system for high-value, same-day settlement of transactions.
''Funds transfer''


As a result of its migration to a new platform, it is also called NewCHAPS.
A UK-based payment system for high-value, sterling real time gross settlement of transactions ([[RTGS]]) operated by the Bank of England through a subsidiary. It also offered euro payments but this service was discontinued in 2008.
 
It uses the [[MIRS]] settlement system back-up system offered by [[SWIFT]] as its offshore, distributed processing back-up.
 
As a result of its migration to a new platform, it was for a while also called NewCHAPS.




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* [[Payments and payment systems]]
* [[Payments and payment systems]]


[[Category:Technical_skills]]
[[Category:Treasury_operations]]
[[Category:Cash_management]]
[[Category:Cash_management]]
[[Category:Technology]]

Revision as of 12:37, 25 March 2015

(CHAPS)

Funds transfer

A UK-based payment system for high-value, sterling real time gross settlement of transactions (RTGS) operated by the Bank of England through a subsidiary. It also offered euro payments but this service was discontinued in 2008.

It uses the MIRS settlement system back-up system offered by SWIFT as its offshore, distributed processing back-up.

As a result of its migration to a new platform, it was for a while also called NewCHAPS.


See also