01 Jul 24 @ 09:21

The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) plans to review regulations governing the country’s retail payments. The review is expected to create a new regulatory regime that directly addresses these payments... read more

13 Feb 25 @ 11:53

Australia’s banking sector is pushing for urgent legislative reform to modernise the country’s payments regulations framework, as digital transactions, particularly mobile wallet payments, soar. With Australians making over 500 million... read more

15 May 24 @ 16:57

Payment providers are considering tokenization and blockchain-based decentralized finance systems to enhance transaction transparency, auditability and exploring various other use cases. Financial institutions and intermediaries are increasingly embracing the adoption... read more

24 Oct 23 @ 10:25

Summer 2023 has seen a bumper crop of good news for CBDCs, including transactions using the digital Yuan hitting $250 billion, a new CBDC consortium announced by Mastercard and the... read more

12 Oct 23 @ 16:36

Mastercard says it has successfully demonstrated capabilities of a new solution that enables a CBDC to be tokenised (or “wrapped”) onto different blockchains, providing consumers with a new option to... read more

05 Oct 23 @ 12:38

The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) and central bank partners have launched Project Mandala. The project explores the feasibility of encoding jurisdiction-specific policy and regulatory requirements into a common protocol... read more

13 Sep 23 @ 16:34

Swift has entered a new phase of its breakthrough work on Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) interoperability, announcing that three central banks are beta testing its solution for interlinking CBDCs.... read more

13 Jul 23 @ 09:37

A new report from BIS presents the results of a survey of 86 central banks conducted in late 2022 about their involvement in central bank digital currencies work, as well... read more

20 Mar 23 @ 17:35

National Australia Bank (NAB) appears to be going head to head with its own Central Bank in a race to launch its own stablecoin AUDN. Earlier this month, Payments Cards... read more

03 Mar 23 @ 17:54

As previously announced, the Reserve Bank of Australia is collaborating with the Digital Finance Cooperative Research Centre (DFCRC) on a research project to explore potential use cases and economic benefits of... read more

17 Nov 22 @ 18:04

Enterprises use a permissioned blockchain — known as an enterprise blockchain — to speed up business processes, improve transparency, and reduce costs. The private nature of enterprise blockchains makes them... read more

26 Sep 22 @ 12:56

The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) has announced a marked change in its position on Least Cost Routing (LCR) – how banks and credit card companies prioritise payments in the... read more

13 Sep 22 @ 17:19

It’s not news the COVID-19 pandemic and lockdowns accelerated an existing shift to digital financial services, including payments. The latest issue of the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) Finance and Development... read more

11 Aug 22 @ 13:35

The Reserve Bank of Australia is collaborating with the Digital Finance Cooperative Research Centre (DFCRC) on a research project to explore use cases for a central bank digital currency (CBDC).... read more

22 Mar 22 @ 17:12

The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) has announced the completion of prototypes for a common platform enabling international settlements using multiple central bank digital currencies (CBDC). Project Dunbar as the... read more

02 Sep 21 @ 09:56

The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) and four central banks will test the use of CBDC for cross-border transactions, as global regulators seek to improve the speed and movement of... read more

18 Dec 20 @ 10:33

The group of three domestic Australian payment organisations are set to merge forming a new company to create a “stronger, unified entity that will aim to reduce costs, increase innovation... read more

19 Mar 20 @ 10:46

Throughout the past two decades corporates have swiftly transitioned from traditional linear business models to platform based as the demand for quality product outlay in record time escalates. With platform-based... read more

10 Feb 20 @ 16:29

It has been reported that the Australian regulator, RBA, will consider intervening to stop banks from automatically directing contactless debit card payments through the Visa and Mastercard networks, the central... read more

11 Mar 19 @ 17:14

According to the World Payments Report, the global volumes of non-cash transaction volumes grew by 10.1%, reaching 482.6 billion between 2015 and 2016. In addition, McKinsey’s recent Global Payments 2018... read more