Reserve Bank of Australia

62 results about this entity

Period: 10 Sep 2004 - 09 Dec 2024

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Aussie banks hit by internet outages

ANZ, CommBank and Westpac all faced issues with their online banking services on Thursday thanks to a problem with a DDoS mitigation tool run by cloud services provider Akamai.

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Reserve Bank of Australia kicks off CBDC project with NAB and CBA

The Reserve Bank of Australia is collaborating with Commonwealth Bank, National Australia Bank, Perpetual and ConsenSys Software on a project to explore the potential use and implications of a wholesale form of central bank digital currency (CBDC) using distributed ledger technology (DLT).

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Australian central bank sees no public policy case for retail CBDC

Brushing aside concerns over monetary sovereignty, the Reserve Bank of Australia says that the public policy case for issuing a general purpose or retail CBDC in Australia is still to be made.

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Asic and Reserve Bank of Australia outline expectations for Chess replacement programme

ASIC and the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) (the regulators) have outlined their expectations of ASX as it replaces the Clearing House Electronic Sub-register System (CHESS).

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Australia central bank mulls lowering e-payments charge

The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) is considering reducing the charges applied to certain payments due to the high number of people opting for contactless methods in response to the Covid-19 pandemic.

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Reserve Bank of Australia reviews retail payments regulation

Following discussion at the November meeting of the Payments System Board, the Bank has released an Issues Paper as the first stage of its Review of Retail Payments Regulation, which will take place over the coming year.

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Oz central bank laments 'slow and uneven' NPP roll-out by Big Four

The Reserve Bank of Australia has described the roll out of New Payments Platform (NPP) services by major banks "disappointing" and called for action to break down barriers preventing new service providers from accessing the system.

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RBA consults on ISO 20022 migration plan

The Reserve Bank of Australia is canvassing bank views on plans to migrate the nation's payments networks to the ISO 200022 messaging standard.

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RBA chief says cash is becoming a 'niche payment instrument'

Reserve Bank of Australia governor Philip Lowe has painted a picture of a near-future society in which physical cash is a niche payment instrument reserved only for emergencies.

Australian central bank assures public after outage

Full service has resumed at the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) after it suffered a power outage on Thursday.

Aussie real-time payments platform goes live

Australia's real-time payments platform goes live today, with customers of three of the country's big four banks able to transfer funds in seconds.

RBA governor cool on electronic dollar; calls bitcoin 'speculative mania'

The Reserve Bank of Australia has no plans to issue electronic dollar banknotes, says governor Philip Lowe in a speech in which he also dismisses the current fascination with bitcoin as a "speculative mania".