69 results about this entity
Period: 10 Sep 2004 - 21 Jul 2025
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The Reserve Bank of Australia has warned that it will be "duty bound" to use its regulatory powers should the nation's banks fail to deliver on promises to modernise the country's payments infrastructure.
24 October 2014
Australian banks, retailers and payments specialists have signed on to a new co-ordination body that aims to step up the pace of innovation in the country's payments industry.
26 August 2014
Amid allegations that the Oz government has been spying on the Indonesian president, a member of Anonymous Indonesia has claimed responsibility for an attack on the Reserve Bank of Australia Web site.
21 November 2013
Australia's central bank has admitted that it has been repeatedly targeted by computer hackers but insists that no data has been lost and its IT systems remain uncorrupted.
11 March 2013
The Reserve Bank of Australia has set up a project team to explore the creation of a central payments hub for real-time bank account transfers.
28 September 2012
VocaLink, First Data and Accenture are planning to build a system similar to the UK's Faster Payments service in Australia, enabling consumers and businesses to transfer funds between bank accounts in near real-time.
11 September 2012
The Reserve Bank of Australia has appointed former Westpac tech chief Sarv Girn as its new chief information officer.
09 August 2012
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
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