In October 2026 the Reserve Bank of Australia published its Summary of Submissions to the Review of Payments System Regulation Issues Paper; the document itself is dated 6 October 2026. Seventy-five stakeholders answered the Issues Paper released on 25 June 2026. The RBA published 56 of those submissions in August and received the rest on…
On 27 August 2026 the Reserve Bank of Australia’s Payments System Board met and reported developments across four areas: it endorsed the annual assessment of ASX’s clearing and settlement facilities against the Financial Stability Standards, discussed progress on the account-to-account (A2A) payments roadmap, endorsed the proposed approach to consulting on the future role of the…
Final settlement of many Australian dollar interbank obligations occurs across Exchange Settlement Accounts at the Reserve Bank, accessed through RITS. When RITS-related services are disrupted, some file-based payments and property settlements can miss normal processing windows. On 27 January 2026 that is roughly what happened, and the Reserve Bank’s 2026 RITS assessment, released on 19…
An Australian acquirer that keeps surcharging logic running past 30 September 2026 will be applying fees the rules no longer permit. A designated card network or large acquirer that misses the new publication dates will be out of step with the RBA Standards registered on the Federal Register of Legislation. The June 2026 RBA Payments…