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A2A Vision nuance shifts to resilience, access and commercial sustainability

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15 Jul, 2026
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Warwick Ponder
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15 Jul, 2026
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After more than 100 submissions and months of debate, subtle but significant changes have been made to the final Vision for Account-to-Account Payments in Australia, with resilience, access and commercial sustainability emerging as important edits along with the concept of critical national infrastructure.
A2A Vision nuance shifts to resilience, access and commercial sustainability
The final Vision for A2A Payments provides a framework but leaves a lot of detail still to be ironed out. Image generated by AI.

After more than 100 submissions and months of debate, subtle but significant changes have been made to the final Vision for Account-to-Account Payments in Australia, with resilience, access and commercial sustainability emerging as important edits along with the concept of critical national infrastructure.

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