Re.Tes.
In the previous article we introduced the Re.Tes. program – Reengineering of Treasury procedures – which among its objectives had the modernization of the technologies in use, greater capacity and speed of data processing and the adoption of a single protocol for dialogue between the Treasury and administrations.
A very important program at a national level, which allows the State Treasury to evolve towards a more technologically advanced system and to respond to the needs of a modern and digitalized administration.
In this article we try to tell you something more about the program, starting from the needs of the State Treasury and the objectives set up to today.
The new State Treasury
The Bank of Italy and the State Treasuries have also recently had the need to renew and reorganize the technologies in use, introducing effective innovations and consolidating security standards.
In the last few years they have therefore decided to implement and entrust us with the re-engineering program of collection and payment procedures, setting some important objectives. Among these we find the reduction of costs and operational risks of the procedures, a better level of service to the country system, the increase in the operational potential of the operations carried out and, in general, openness to innovation where possible.
To achieve these macro objectives, the planned interventions were the technological modernization followed by a global restructuring of the processes involved, the simplification of the dialogue with public administrations through a single format for exchanging information, the transition to a dialogue on open networks, the unification of the information databases and the rationalization of the payment and collection processes in line with the use of the new management systems.
A program destined to have a strong impact on the organization of the state network and on communication between the various entities, involving, among others, the entire national banking system, Poste Italiane S.P.A., RGS, Corte dei conti, INPS, ADM, CDP, MIUR and MAECI.
January 1, 2025
The last thirty years have seen major regulatory and technological innovations that have allowed State Treasuries to evolve significantly, and above all to digitize information and move to electronic payments. An evolution that has been based mainly on an ever-increasing interconnection between the Public Connectivity System and the International Interbank Network, and on the promotion and use of electronic payment systems.
Central and peripheral administrations, local and national bodies, INPS, Poste Italiane and many other contexts have been involved in these changes. Over the years, the telematization of communications, the general computerization of processes and new security protocols and standards have continued to evolve and progressively involve the entire state fabric.
Only recently (a few years) the possibility of reorganizing and modernizing all these new technologies implemented over the last decades has given rise to the need for a new program that could support all the strengths of the technologies in use, introduce innovations and new protocols and modernize the State Treasurer, Re.Tes.
On January 1, 2025, after several years of programming and testing that saw PC Cube play the important role of technological partner alongside the Bank of Italy, Re.Tes. became officially operational, also responding to a new regulatory framework (Legislative Decree 73/2022 then Law 122/2022) which requires a centralized State Treasury and greater attention to digital payments and operating methods. Suffice it to say that approximately 30 million transactions will be managed through Re.Tes every month, and that no more than a few weeks ago two million transactions were issued for the payment of salaries of public bodies, for an amount of approximately two billion euros, in the space of a single day.
Re.Tes is therefore a program intended to modernize our entire state structure, which certainly originates with a focus on the payment system and interconnection between institutions, but which could also have a positive impact on other areas of administration and in general be an important national point of reference from the point of view of innovation.
