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News about payments outages, their causes and their effect on Australians.

AusPayNet’s first resilience report skips the Telstra outage

AusPayNet's first Resilience in Payments report calls preparedness an industry-wide job, but its only Australian case study is the 2023 Optus outage, ...

Alex Zaharov-Reutt
August 12, 2026

Can you air-gap Visa? ASD’s 3-month isolation target meets Australia’s payment rails

The Australian Signals Directorate today released revised advice on cutting critical infrastructure off from the internet, corporate networks and everything else. ...

Alex Zaharov-Reutt
July 29, 2026

Getting paid is priority 1. Always

Last week’s Telstra outage reminded us that getting paid is the most important thing that a business does. Treat it accordingly. ...

Brad Kelly
July 15, 2026

Telstra outage killed cards again but are we dismantling the cash backup?

Tens of thousands of merchants couldn't accept card payments last Wednesday, and customers were left with cash as the only option to ...

Alex Zaharov-Reutt
July 15, 2026

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 ...

Warwick Ponder
April 1, 2026

RBA confirms an expired certificate took down Australia’s payments settlement backbone

The RBA's post-incident report on the 27 January RITS outage reveals an uncomfortable truth: the plumbing that moves billions through Australia's financial ...

Alex Zaharov-Reutt
March 25, 2026

Missed deadline on RBA outage review – the system keeps breaking

Australia built a cashless economy on infrastructure that can't stay online. The Reserve Bank knows it. The telcos know it. And now, ...

Alex Zaharov-Reutt
March 11, 2026

RBA releases details of CS crisis powers to protect financial markets

The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) has published its rules for intervening if there is a threat to domestic financial stability or ...

Staff Reporter
February 25, 2026

Expiring certificates crashed RBA batch settlements

Expiring certificates were responsible for a 7 hour Reserve Bank outage that saw pays and property settlements delayed for up to four ...

Warwick Ponder
February 11, 2026

RBA outage delays some payments for four days

Pays were late and property settlements delayed after a 7 hour Reserve Bank outage last week caused flow-on impacts across the industry ...

Warwick Ponder
February 4, 2026

Aussie eftpos moves on outage risks with Stand-in Processing but will card issuers play?

In an increasingly less-cash world, Australia’s domestic card network eftpos has moved to reduce the impact of bank outages with a new ...

Warwick Ponder
January 7, 2026

ATO urges employers to move early on payday super or risk compliance nightmare

Employers have been warned to move early on payday super, with the ATO expecting 25 times the number of rejected contribution payments ...

Warwick Ponder
November 26, 2025

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