Payments System Board Annual Report – 2010 The Board's Announcements and Reserve Bank Reports

This section lists developments since mid 2009. The Payments System Board's 2006 Annual Report contained a list of the Board's decisions and related Bank reports up to that time. Subsequent Reports have contained an annual update.

2009

Media Release 2009-20, ‘Payments System Issues’ (announcing the release of a consultation paper on proposed changes to the EFTPOS Interchange Fee Standard; the results of the Bank's 2008/09 assessment of Australia's licensed clearing and settlement facilities against the Financial Stability Standards; and a self-assessment of the Reserve Bank Information and Transfer System against the Core Principles for Systemically Important Payment Systems), 22 September 2009.

2008/09 Assessment of Clearing and Settlement Facilities in Australia, Reserve Bank of Australia, Sydney, September 2009.

2009 Self-Assessment of the Reserve Bank Information and Transfer System, Reserve Bank of Australia, Sydney, September 2009.

Media Release 2009-27, ‘Payments System Issues’ (announcing the Board's decisions to amend the EFTPOS Interchange Fee Standard to make the regulation of EFTPOS interchange fees more consistent with that for scheme debit interchange fees; and to give in principle approval to BPAY's application for approval of the multilateral netting arrangement administered by it under section 12 of the Payment Systems and Netting Act 1998), 27 November 2009.

A Revised Interchange Standard for the EFTPOS System, Reserve Bank of Australia, Sydney, November 2009.

2010

Media Release 2010-10, ‘Payments System Issues’ (announcing the Board's decision to undertake a strategic review of innovation in the Australian payments system), 28 May 2010.

Reform of the ATM System – One Year On, Reserve Bank of Australia Bulletin, Sydney, June 2010.

Media Release 2010-14, ‘Strategic Review of Innovation in Australia's Payments System’ (announcing the Bank's invitation to interested parties to share with it their views on relevant issues for its strategic review of innovation in the Australian payments system), 22 July 2010.