57 results about this entity
Period: 10 Sep 2004 - 29 Apr 2024
Company announcement/payments
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.
29 April 2024
News/regulation
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.
13 October 2023
Company announcement/crypto
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.
12 October 2023
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.
05 October 2023
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.
03 October 2023
News/crypto
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)
23 August 2023
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).
31 May 2023
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.
30 May 2023
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.
26 May 2023
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.
18 May 2023
News/payments
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.
08 March 2023
The Reserve Bank of Australia is kicking of 14 pilot projects to investigate potential use cases for a central bank digital currency.
02 March 2023
Company announcement/regulation
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.
15 December 2022
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.
29 November 2022
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).
10 August 2022
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.
22 March 2022
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.
13 December 2021
Company announcement/people
Mr Ellis Connolly has been appointed to Head of Payments Policy Department at the Reserve Bank of Australia.
01 December 2021
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.
02 September 2021
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
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