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Remarks by Mr Daniel Mminele, Deputy Governor of the South African Reserve Bank, at the Continuous Linked Settlement (CLS) Reception to mark ten years of inclusion of the South African rand in the CLS, Johannesburg, 17 March 2015
Published Date:
2015-03-17
Last Modified Date:
2023-11-13, 10:20 AM
Category:
Speeches > Speeches by Governors
I am particularly pleased that the CLS delegation to mark this key milestone is led
by none other than the Chairman of the CLS Board, Mr Kenneth Harvey. We
welcome you and your colleagues to South Africa, and thank you for coming all
the way.
The CLS is one of those mission-critical systems that can be compared to the
plumbing system of a building. Just as most of us never think about the plumbing
of a building and take for granted that it is there and works, the CLS also runs
very much in the background of the foreign-exchange market. It is only when
there is a leak or a pipe bursts that we realise how important plumbing is. In the
context of the CLS, if a big pipe bursts and cannot be fixed quickly, this can result
in major disruptions to the foreign-exchange market, with potential rapid spill-over
effects to the rest of the financial system, which at worst could bring about
financial instability on a global scale.