Participation has been achieved in the annual meetings of “Banknote Security Committee”, “Manufacturing Processes Committee” and “Banknote Materials Committee”, which are the technical sub-units of “the European Banknote Conference”, which operates as European-based group in the field of banknote printing and of which we have membership.

Participation has been achieved in the annual meeting of “Central Banks Counterfeit Deterrence Group”, which conducts business at the international level in the field of banknote counterfeiting and of which we have membership.

Participation took place in the activities and meetings of the working groups established under the Committee on Payments and Market Infrastructures (CPMI) which functions within the BIS and in which the CBRT is representing our country. In this framework, some of the working groups in which the CBRT participates published their final reports in 2016. Accordingly;

• In April 2016, the “Report on Payment Aspects of Financial Inclusion” prepared by the Working Group on Payment Aspects of Financial Inclusion which was founded by the CPMI and World Bank Group,
• In June 2016, the report entitled Guidance on cyber resilience for financial market infrastructures (“Cyber Guidance”) by the Working Group on Cyber Resilience in FMI, which was founded by the CPMI and the International Organization of Securities Commissions,
• In July 2016, the “Correspondent Banking Report” prepared by the CPMI Correspondent Banking Working Group,
• In November 2016, the “Fast Payments Report” prepared by the CPMI Retail Payments Working Group,

were issued on the BIS web site.