BOJ starts real-time settlement system

BOJ starts real-time settlement system

TOKYO, Japan - Female employees of Dai-Ichi Kangyo Bank handle settlement data on computers in the bank's head office in Tokyo's Uchisaiwaicho district Jan. 4. The Bank of Japan launched the Real-Time Gross-Settlement system the same day to track the debts banks owe each other.

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