62 results about this entity
Period: 10 Sep 2004 - 09 Dec 2024
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Australia's central bank is preparing a crackdown on operational disruptions at the country's leading banks following a series of major outages in retail payment systems and Internet banking sites. The RBA's intervention comes as Westpac warned customers that it was experiencing intermittent problems with its Web site.
21 February 2012
Microsoft is pressing the Reserve Bank of Australia to consider adjustments to the domestic payments markets to help consumers conduct transactions in virtual currencies, such as Facebook Credits and Microsoft Points.
06 September 2011
Aussie police have charged Securency International, Note Printing Australia (NPA) and six individuals with bribing public officials in foreign countries to help win contracts.
01 July 2011
The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) is calling for the country's payments industry players to coordinate on system-wide innovation.
29 March 2011
The Reserve Bank of Australia is to offload its 50% stake in Securency, the banknote production company mired in allegations of corruption and bribery.
23 November 2010
Securency, a banknote maker half owned by the Reserve Bank of Australia, has been hit by raids in Melbourne, the UK and Spain by police looking for evidence of corruption and bribery, according to The Age newspaper.
06 October 2010
The Reserve Bank of Australia has decided to continue regulating interchange fees on card transactions after concluding that insufficient progress had been made in opening up the domestic payments system to new competition.
26 August 2009
IntercontinentalExchange has added Royal Bank of Scotland to its roster of clearing members and confirmed that it will be ready to launch its credit default swaps clearing counterparty in Europe by July.
20 May 2009
The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) is looking to halt attempts by online auction house eBay to force sellers in the country to offer PayPal as a payments option on sales listings.
20 August 2008
Australian banks are looking to the country's competition watch dog to derail plans by eBay to force customers to use its PayPal service to make payments on the online auction site.
29 April 2008
Australian police are warning the public not to respond to a new phishing e-mail that claims to be sent by Detective Superintendent Col Dyson, commander of the New South Wales Fraud Squad, on behalf of the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA).
25 January 2006
The Reserve bank of Australia is looking to cap the costs of POS terminal provision on the high street as part of an ongoing series of reforms aimed at stimulating competition in the domestic payments market.
20 December 2005
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