Reserve Bank of Australia

57 results about this entity

Period: 10 Sep 2004 - 29 Apr 2024

/payments

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.

/regulation

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.

/crypto

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.

/regulation

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.

/payments

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.

/crypto

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)

/payments

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).

/crypto

Monoova executes cross-border settlement using Australian dollar CBDC

On Friday, the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA), in collaboration with the Digital Finance Cooperative Research Centre (DFCRC), held an invitation only conference in Sydney for participants in the Australian Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) pilot project.

/payments

Reserve Bank of Australia tests 14 CBDC use cases in pilot

Today, the Reserve Bank in collaboration with the Digital Finance Cooperative Research Centre (DFCRC) demonstrated the selected organisations exploring potential use cases and economic benefits of a central bank digital currency (CBDC) in Australia with a live demonstration.

/crypto

Canvas demonstrates FX transaction using Australian CBDC

Global fintech CANVAS, today announced a significant milestone in moving towards usable electronic currencies on a global basis, with the first Foreign Exchange transaction using an Australian CBDC.

/payments

ANZ to trial offline CBDC payments via smart cards

ANZ is partnering with two universities to trial offline CBDC payments via smart cards that can be loaded with funds and used like physical cash.

/crypto

Australian banks and fintechs to test use cases for CBDC

The Reserve Bank of Australia is kicking of 14 pilot projects to investigate potential use cases for a central bank digital currency.

/regulation

Regulators increase scrutiny of ASX post-trade arrangements

Today ASIC and the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) (the regulators) have taken further action to ensure that all necessary steps are taken by ASX to support and maintain current CHESS until its replacement is successfully implemented.

/payments

Red-faced RBA found wanting in crippling payments outage

The Reserve Bank of Australia has lifted the lid on a serious outage in October that delayed the settlement of some real-time payments by up to five days.

/crypto

RBA to commence year-long CBDC research project

The Reserve Bank of Australia is to embark on a year-long research project to explore use cases for a central bank digital currency (CBDC).

/crypto

Central banks develop prototypes for cross-border CBDC interoperability

The Bank for International Settlements and the central banks of Australia, Malaysia, Singapore and South Africa have developed two prototypes for a shared platform that could enable international settlements using digital currencies issued by multiple central banks.

/crypto

RBA reports back on CBDC/DLT loan syndication project

A collaborative research project into the use of distributed ledger technology in CBDC loan syndication conducted by the Reserve Bank of Australia in association with Commonwealth Bank, National Australia Bank, Perpetual and ConsenSys Software has demonstrated the potential for significant efficiency gains for businerss customers and market participants.

/people

Reserve Bank of Australia names Ellis Connolly as head of payment systems policy

Mr Ellis Connolly has been appointed to Head of Payments Policy Department at the Reserve Bank of Australia.

/crypto

Central banks to develop prototypes for cross-border CBDC settlement

The Bank for International Settlements has enlisted the central banks of Malaysia, Singapore, South Africa and Australia to test the use of central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) for international settlements.

/retail

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.