The SAMOS system  In April 1994, the South African Reserve Bank (SARB) launched a project to reform the South African national payment system (NPS) and formulated a strategy that would enable South African banks and other intermediaries in the payment system to align the needs of the domestic economy with developments in the international community.
Page 1 of 10  A strategy-formulation team, consisting of representatives of the SARB and the banking community, was established, and a collaborative consensus-building approach was adopted. The SARB acted as facilitator and, in a period of 14 months, produced the first draft of the document titled The South African national payment system: framework and strategy, commonly known as the Blue Book.