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Participation in TARGET2-Latvija (TARGET2), the real-time settlement system for the euro TARGET2 is a settlement system for effecting cross-border payments in euro in real time. TARGET2 ensures a single monetary policy and money market dev...
Participation in the Bank of Latvia's Electronic Clearing System (EKS) The EKS is the Bank of Latvia's net settlement system, which is used to process bulk retail payments in lats and euro and ensure the settlement o...
Participation in the interbank automated payment system SAMS The SAMS is a real time gross settlement system designed for large-value and urgent payments related to inter-bank market transactions, open market an...
Payment system oversight Updated on 15.03.2011. Pursuant to Article 9 of the Law "On the Bank of Latvia", the Bank of Latvia promotes smooth operation of the paymen...
Payment system participants The Bank of Latvia maintains three payment systems: the SAMS, EKS and TARGET2-Latvija. In the SAMS, settlement is executed only in lats; TARGET2-Latvi...