Reserve Bank of Australia

62 results about this entity

Period: 10 Sep 2004 - 09 Dec 2024

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RBA payments data shows massive surge in mobile wallets

New data released today from the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA), shows Australians continue to embrace the ease of mobile wallets when making payments.

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Australia seeks industry participation in CBDC project

The Reserve Bank of Australia is calling on industry players to take part in the experimental research phase of a project exploring the development of a wholesale CBDC and tokenised bank deposits.

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Central banks prove use case for embedding compliance into cross-border transactions

The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) along with central banks in Australia, Korea, Malaysia and Singapore have successfully demonstrated the feasibility of embedding regulatory compliance requirements with cross-border financial transactions.

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RBA consults on card cheme fees and surcharging

The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) is commencing its Review into Retail Payments Regulation.

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Australia gives priority to wholesale CBDC over retail

The Reserve Bank of Australia is to prioritise the issuance of a wholesale central bank digital currency over a retail CBDC, arguing that a clear business case for the latter has yet to emerge.

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RBA releases report on interlinking fast payment systems for cross-border transfers

The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) today released a report analysing the benefits, design choices and challenges associated with linking fast payment systems across countries.

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Australia moves to give RBA oversight of Apple Pay

Australia's government has set out plans to regulate digital wallet providers such as Apple and Google in the same way as other payment services.

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Mastercard demonstrates interoperable CBDC for Web3 commerce in RBA pilot

Mastercard today announced that it has successfully demonstrated capabilities of a new solution that enables CBDCs to be tokenised (or “wrapped”) onto different blockchains, providing consumers with a new option to participate in commerce across multiple blockchains with increased security and ease.

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Central banks bid to embed compliance requirements into real-time transactions

The Bank for International Settlements, along with the central banks of Australia, Korea, Malaysis and Singapore, is exploring the possibility of embedding regulatory requirements into cross-border transactions.

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RBA to push ahead with payment card tokenisation and least-cost routing for debit cards

The Bank has released a Conclusions Paper setting out the conclusions of its recent public consultation on options for further enhancing the competitiveness, efficiency and safety of Australia’s debit card market.

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Australian central bank CBDC research highlights long path to any future deployment

A year-long research project by the Reserve Bank of Australia has uncovered a number of legal, regulatory, technical and operational issues that could stymie the introduction of a central bank digital currency (CBDC)

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Reserve Bank of Australia responds to outage report

In January 2023, the Reserve Bank of Australia commissioned a comprehensive review of the operating environment supporting the Reserve Bank Information and Transfer System (RITS).