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Business Definition for: Reserve Bank Of Australia

  • Australia's central bank, which is responsible for managing the Commonwealth's monetary policy, ensuring financial stability, and printing and distributing currency.
  • Abbr. RBA

Additional Resources

Australian interchange review--three years on: in 2002, the Reserve Bank of Australia announced it would reduce credit card interchange. The end result has been far from the predicted destruction of the Australian card market.(OPINION)
THE RULING ON CREDIT CARDS by the Reserve Bank of Australia RBA was the first step in 'refining' the Australian payments system. The RBA is the first central bank to make a definitive decision on the contentious issue of association members...
Tags: credit card, MasterCard International, Visa Inc.
Research articles 2007-02-15
Visa calls Reserve Bank "unAustralian".
ABIX via COMTEX) -- The Reserve Bank of Australia RBA has again been criticised for its attempt to intervene in the matter of credit card charges. Visa International's executive vice-president for Australia and New Zealand, Gordon Wheaton, speaking ABIX via COMTEX) -- The Reserve Bank of...
Tags: credit card, Visa Inc.
Research articles 2002-06-26
Visa takes RBA to court over fees. (Global News).(Reserve Bank of Australia)(Brief Article)
Visa International has taken legal action against the Reserve Bank of Australia to stop the national regulator from dramatically reducing the interchange fees charged on card transactions. Visa International has taken legal action against the Reserve Bank of Australia to stop the national regulator...
Tags: Visa Inc.
Research articles 2002-11-01
Payments system reforms.
May 24, 2006 (Reserve Bank Bulletin - ABIX via COMTEX) -- The Reserve Bank of Australia has released a package of reforms to the EFTPOS and scheme debit systems. The designation of the Bankcard system has been revoked. The bank determined that the ...
Tags: payment, Visa Inc.
Research articles 2006-05-24
VISA INT'L TELLS COURT RESERVE BANK OF AUSTRALIA EXCEEDED POWERS.
SYDNEY, May 19 Asia Pulse - Credit card company Visa International today began its case against the Reserve Bank of Australia RBA, saying the central bank had acted outside of its powers when it introduced new standards for the credit card industr SYDNEY, May 19...
Tags: credit card, Credit card company, Visa Inc.
Research articles 2003-05-19
Reform of debit card systems in Australia.
Jul 25, 2006 (Reserve Bank Bulletin - ABIX via COMTEX) -- In April 2006, the Reserve Bank of Australia RBA released a package of reforms to Australia's debit card systems. The package includes the standards to apply to Visa Debit interchange fees Jul 25,...
Tags: debit card, Visa Inc.
Research articles 2006-07-25
NATIONAL AUSTRALIA BANK CHIEF EXPECTS RBA TO MAINTAIN CASH RATE.
SYDNEY, Nov 11 Asia Pulse - National Australia Bank Ltd (ASX:NAB) boss Frank Cicutto expects the Reserve Bank to adopt a "wait and see" approach to interest rates. SYDNEY, Nov 11 Asia Pulse - National Australia Bank Ltd (ASX:NAB) boss Frank Cicutto expects the...
Research articles 2002-11-11
VISA, MASTERCARD TO TAKE COURT ACTION VS RESERVE BANK AUSTRALIA.
SYDNEY, Oct 11 Asia Pulse - Two international credit card companies say court action against the Reserve Bank of Australia is likely to take four to six weeks and involve calling expert finance witnesses. SYDNEY, Oct 11 Asia Pulse - Two international credit card...
Tags: MasterCard International, Visa Inc.
Research articles 2002-10-11
RESERVE BANK OF AUSTRALIA WRONG TO CUT FEE: VISA INT'L.
SYDNEY, May 20 Asia Pulse - The Reserve Bank of Australia cut the fees banks pay each other to provide credit card transactions even though it had previously acknowledged the need for such fees, a credit card company said today. SYDNEY, May 20 Asia...
Tags: credit card, Visa Inc.
Research articles 2003-05-20
Cancellation of RBA media releases via Telerate.
Sep 26, 2005 (Reserve Bank Bulletin - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Reserve Bank of Australia RBA media releases will no longer be available through Telerate, due to Reuters' recent acquisition of Telerate. ...
Tags: Thomson Reuters Corp.
Research articles 2005-09-26
APPLICATIONS APPROVED UNDER BANK HOLDING COMPANY ACT: By Federal Reserve Banks - Illustration
APPLICATIONS APPROVED UNDER BANK HOLDING COMPANY ACT By Federal Reserve Banks Recent applications have been approved by the Federal Reserve Banks as listed below. Copies are available upon request to the Reserve Banks. Section 3 ...
Tags: bank, Federal Reserve Board, Iowa
Research articles 2001-06-01
Debit-free scrutiny on the cards for Visa.
ABIX via COMTEX) -- The fees attached to Visa debit cards may come under scrutiny in Australia. It is not certain because a Reserve Bank of Australia RBA working group is looking mainly at interchange arrangements for the Eftpos network. There has ABIX via COMTEX)...
Tags: card, Visa Inc.
Research articles 2002-06-30
Logica announces the first Australian installation of its funds transfer and payment system; Logica's BESS implemented at National Australia Bank, the largest bank in Australia
LEXINGTON, Mass.--BUSINESS WIRE--March 14, 1995--Logica, one of the leading systems integration, consulting and software firms in the world, announced that it has successfully completed installation of the wireroom module of BESS Bank Electronic Support System for the National Australia Bank Ltd., the largest bank in Australia.
Tags: bank, payment
Research articles 1995-03-14
VISA INT'L TAKES LEGAL ACTION AGAINST AUSTRALIA'S RESERVE BANK.
SYDNEY, Sept 19 Asia Pulse - The Reserve Bank of Australia RBA is the subject of legal action from card operator Visa International over its proposed credit card reforms. SYDNEY, Sept 19 Asia Pulse - The Reserve Bank of Australia RBA is the subject...
Tags: Visa Inc.
Research articles 2002-09-19
RBA dead wrong on Visa debit: reforms proposed by the Reserve Bank to the Visa Debit payment card will have the perverse effect of flooding more credit cards into the market.(Reserve Bank of Australia)(Brief Article)
CUSCAL has warned the Reserve Bank that its reform proposals will actually worsen payments system efficiency. "The RBA is supposed to be about improving payments system efficiency but its plans for Visa Debit will have the opposite effec ...
Tags: credit card, payment, Visa Inc.
Research articles 2005-07-15
First Virginia Community Bank Federal Reserve Bank Membership Approved
FAIRFAX, Va. -- David W. Pijor, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of First Virginia Community Bank, in organization, announced the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond has approved the organization's application for membership in the Federal Reserve System. "Membership in the Federal Reserve System provides our new bank with extensive products...
Tags: Federal Reserve Bank
Research articles 2007-10-09
Reforms create 'unfair' market.(Special Feature--Credit Cards)
THE AUSTRALIAN CREDIT CARD market has effectively been turned on its head by the controversial, Reserve Bank of Australia reforms, which have just come into effect. And the argument rages on about whether the changes will actually achieve the ...
Tags: card, charge card, credit card, MasterCard International, regulation, Visa Inc.
Research articles 2003-10-31
Economic growth in top quartile of performers.(Australia's economic growth)
The following is an edited text of a speech by the Governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia, Ian Macfarlane to Asian investors recently. THE AUSTRALIAN economy has attracted much favourable attention lately because it has performed so well du ...
Tags: exchange rate, financial, Government, inflation, OECD
Research articles 1999-07-14
Bank of Smithtown Sells Stock in Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Today, Bank of Smithtown sold its shares of stock in the Federal Reserve Bank of New York back to the Fed, thereby withdrawing from its membership in the Federal Reserve System.
Tags: bank, Federal Reserve Bank of New York, stock
Research articles 2007-03-08
Deutsche topples NAB as premier bond seller. (Current Account).(Deutsche Bank AG, National Australia Bank)(Brief Article)
DEUTSCHE BANK AG OUSTED National Australia Bank as the leading arranger of bond sates in Australia in the first half of 2002, as financial companies and banks sold the most debt. Europe's biggest bank, National Australia and UBS Warburg AG, i...
Tags: bank, bond, Deutsche Bank AG
Research articles 2002-07-17
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