69 results about this entity
Period: 10 Sep 2004 - 21 Jul 2025
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
News/payments
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
News/crypto
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
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
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
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
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