Invest and coordinate: more work ahead to build real time resilience

Warwick Ponder
Editor
1 Apr, 2026
Commonwealth Bank, Westpac, ANZ and NAB are among the industry players who who could make better use of “underutilised critical infrastructure” to finally unlock the power of resilience, trust and real time payments in Australia.
Invest and coordinate: more work ahead to build real time resilience

Commonwealth Bank, Westpac, ANZ and NAB are among the industry players who who could make better use of “underutilised critical infrastructure” to finally unlock the power of resilience, trust and real time payments in Australia.

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