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BoE Publishes Terms of Participation for New Synchronisation Lab to Launch in Spring 2026
The Bank of England (BoE) has published the terms of participation for its upcoming Synchronisation Lab which will support the testing and refinement of a proposed synchronisation capability for the UK’s renewed Real-Time Gross Settlement (RTGS) service, RT2. Synchronisation would allow for atomic settlement in central bank money: the conditional settlement of funds in RT2 against assets on a variety of external asset ledgers, meaning that funds in RT2 will settle if and only if the external…
By: A&O Shearman