Minutes of the Bank of England’s 4 June Court meeting record approval for a customer-payments programme, a CISCO supplier contract, a 3% cap on aggregate levy growth and a GBP 66 million payment in lieu of dividend for 2025/26.
The Bank of England said Nicholas Segal became chair of its Enforcement Decision Making Committee on 1 August 2026, with Peter King appointed deputy chair, succeeding Sir William Blair and Philip Marsden.
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The Bank of England said it will defer its November 2026 RTGS standards release, including messaging standards for CHAPS payments, after Swift postponed its own November standards release.
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ECB Executive Board member Isabel Schnabel argued that central bank reserves should become native programmable assets if tokenised wholesale finance is to develop on a safe settlement foundation.
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The Bank of England said average daily foreign-exchange turnover reported in its April 2026 UK survey reached USD 4.609 trillion, up 20% from October 2025, with FX swaps providing the largest absolute increase.
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