The CPMI's work programme

The Committee on Payments and Market Infrastructures (CPMI) promotes the safety and efficiency of payment, clearing, settlement and related arrangements, thereby supporting financial stability and the wider economy. The CPMI monitors and analyses developments in these arrangements, and serves as a forum for central bank cooperation in related oversight, policy and operational matters, including the provision of central bank services. The CPMI is a global standard setter in this area.

The CPMI maintains an annual work programme that outlines the strategic priorities for its monitoring and analysis, policy work, and standard setting and implementation activities. The work programme is developed under the direction of the CPMI Chairperson with the feedback provided by the Governors of the Economic Consultative Committee.

Overarching themes of the 2021-22 work programme

  • Shape the future of payments; enhance cross-border payments; address policy issues arising from innovations in payments; and monitor changing trends in payments.
  • Evaluate and address risks in financial market infrastructures (FMIs), including those that emerged or rose over the course of the Covid-19 pandemic.

About the Committee's work

The CPMI carries out its mandate through the following activities:

  1. monitoring and analysing developments to help identify risks for the safety and efficiency of arrangements within its mandate as well as resulting risks for the global financial system;
  2. sharing experiences related to arrangements within its mandate, to the performance of oversight functions and to the provision of central bank services in order to promote common understanding, and developing policy advice or common policies for central banks;
  3. establishing and promoting global standards and recommendations for the regulation, oversight and practices of arrangements within its mandate, including guidance for their interpretation and implementation, where appropriate;
  4. monitoring the implementation of CPMI standards and recommendations with the purpose of ensuring timely, consistent and effective implementation;
  5. supporting cooperative oversight and cross-border information-sharing, including crisis communication and contingency planning for cross-border crisis management;
  6. maintaining relationships with central banks which are not members of the CPMI to share experiences and views and to promote the implementation of CPMI standards and recommendations beyond CPMI member jurisdictions, either directly or by supporting regional bodies as appropriate; and
  7. coordinating and cooperating with other financial sector standard setters, central bank bodies and international financial institutions.