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RBA flags greater scrutiny of payments resilience

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3 Sep, 2025
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Warwick Ponder
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3 Sep, 2025
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The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) has endorsed an ongoing research program examining interoperability, third-party and concentration risks, resilience arrangements for high-value payments and the vulnerability of the payments system to utilities outages.
RBA flags greater scrutiny of payments resilience
The RBA has announced ongoing research program into payments resilience. Photo credit: Anna Tarazevich

The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) has endorsed an ongoing research program examining interoperability, third-party and concentration risks, resilience arrangements for high-value payments and the vulnerability of the payments system to utilities outages.

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