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    Market Infrastructure

    RBA: Find Common Ground on Decommissioning BECS

    By Sanday Chongo Kabange | 11/03/2025

    The RBA found insufficient industry coordination, planning and certainty regarding decommissioning the BECS.

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    Market Infrastructure

    Australia Publishes Response to Clearing and Settlement Inquiry

    By Sanday Chongo Kabange | 04/03/2025

    The government already actioned two recommendations from the parliamentary inquiry, which focused on competition in clearing and settlement and the ASX CHESS replacement project.

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    Crypto / Digital Assets

    ABA Calls for Swift Passage of Payment System Reforms

    By Sanday Chongo Kabange | 05/02/2025

    ABA CEO Anna Bligh said the reforms “first flagged over 1,200 days ago” are “urgently needed” and can be passed “this sitting fortnight”.

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    Crypto / Digital Assets

    Digital Asset Regulation: A Turning Tide in Australia

    By Natasha Teja | 13/01/2025

    Amid mounting pressure at home and abroad, Australian regulators are slowly turning to face digital assets

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    Fintech / Regtech

    ASX Recovers from Worst Market Disruption in Four Years

    By Editors | 23/12/2024

    No trade settlements took place on Friday due to a “CHESS batch settlement delay”. Engineers had to work through the weekend to resolve the issue.

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    Market Infrastructure

    Australia Passes Bill to Overhaul RBA’s Governance Structure

    By Thisanka Siripala | 03/12/2024

    From 1 March 2025, the Reserve Bank of Australia will operate with two separate boards, a Monetary Policy Board and a Governance Board.

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    Crypto / Digital Assets

    RBA Invites Industry to Participate in Digital Money Experiments

    By Editors | 11/11/2024

    The project will explore how different forms of digital money and associated infrastructure could support the development of wholesale tokenised asset markets in Australia.

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    Crypto / Digital Assets

    BIS and APAC Central Banks Release Results of Project Mandala

    By Sanday Chongo Kabange | 29/10/2024

    Project Mandala demonstrated that jurisdiction-specific regulatory requirements can be embedded in cross-border transaction protocols.

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    Big Picture

    Banks, Central Banks Expect Tokenised Assets to “Leapfrog” in Asia

    By Georgina Lee | 28/10/2024

    Banks are actively exploring tokenisation use cases in Asia, saying the region has greater potential for the technology than Western countries.

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    Fintech / Regtech

    Australia Rolls Out Merchant Choice Routing for Mobile Payments

    By Thisanka Siripala | 27/09/2024

    AP+ said merchants will for the first time have the choice to process mobile wallet payments via the lower-cost eftpos network.

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