62 results about this entity
Period: 10 Sep 2004 - 09 Dec 2024
News/retail
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.
17 June 2021
News/crypto
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).
02 November 2020
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.
14 October 2020
Company announcement/regulation
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).
01 October 2020
News/payments
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.
03 June 2020
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.
03 December 2019
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.
14 June 2019
The Reserve Bank of Australia is canvassing bank views on plans to migrate the nation's payments networks to the ISO 200022 messaging standard.
09 April 2019
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.
26 November 2018
News
Full service has resumed at the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) after it suffered a power outage on Thursday.
30 August 2018
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.
13 February 2018
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".
14 December 2017
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