NZ central bank chooses SIA's Perago to replace exchange settlement account system

NZ central bank chooses SIA's Perago to replace exchange settlement account system
Jonathan Underhill
By Jonathan Underhill April 18 (BusinessDesk) - New Zealand's central bank has chosen European technology firm SIA to supply and support a new real-time gross settlement system (RTGS) that will replace the current exchange settlement account system (ESAS). The Reserve Bank will use a Perago RTGS system supplied by SIA's South African subsidiary, Perago, which is already used by a number of central banks in Scandinavia, deputy governor Geoff Bascand said. The bank's existing ESAS system, which processes payments, had been earmarked for...