Practical Issues Arising From The Euro
December 1996 Issue 3
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Title Pages 
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Contents Page
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Chapter 1
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Introduction
Chart A: Planned timetable for the introduction of the euro
Chapter 2
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Payments Arrangements
- Wholesale Payments
Chart B: Timetable for wholesale and retail payments system development
Interlinking
TARGET
Chart C: Alternative cross-border payment flows
Box EBA Clearing
- Retail Payments
Box: Retail payments systems in the UK
Chapter 3
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Systems for Securities and Derivatives Settlement
Box: Securities Settlement Systems in the UK
Central Gilts Office
European Settlements Office
Central Moneymarkets Office
CREST
International central securities depositories
- Euroclear
- Cedel Bank
- Box: Steps to redenomination
London Clearing House
Chapter 4
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Financial Markets and Eexchanges
Money and foreign exchange markets
The equity market
Derivatives markets
A - Exchange traded
B - Over-the-counter
Other Sectors
- Insurance
- Finance and leasing
- Commodities
Report of the Working Group
on the Gilt Market After EMU
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Box: Market conventions in major international government
bond markets
Chapter 5
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Business, Retail and the Public Sector
Business preparations
Retail preparations
Public sector preparations
Chapter 6
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Overarching Issues
- The Law
Chart D: the building blocks of the Regulations on the euro
- Accounting and taxation
- Information technology
Box: Questions about IT that Chief Executives should be asking
- Rounding
Box: Rounding in practice
Chapter 7
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Work of the EMI
Monetary policy operations in Stage 3
Changes to the Bank of England's money market operations
Euro banknotes
- Designs to be used in the preparation of euro banknotes
- Chart E: Timetable for producing euro banknotes
Statistical preparations
ERM 2 and the Stability Pact
Organisations Consulted,
Abbreviations and Acronyms
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