At its meeting today, the Board decided to leave the cash rate unchanged at 2.5 per cent.

At its meeting on 16 August, the Payments System Board welcomed the outcome of discussions that Bank staff have had involving the three debit card networks (eftpos, MasterCard and Visa) over dual-network debit cards.

At its meeting today, the Board decided to lower the cash rate by 25 basis points to 2.5 per cent, effective 7 August 2013

Media Release Number 2013-14: The Reserve Bank of Australia is today publishing the finalised Cash Flow Waterfall Reporting Template for Repo-Eligible RMBS. The template is one of four new reporting templates that will need to be completed for RMBS to be considered for eligibility for repurchase agreement (repo) with the Reserve Bank from 31 December 2014.

At its meeting today, the Board decided to leave the cash rate unchanged at 2.75 per cent

At its meeting today, the Board decided to leave the cash rate unchanged at 2.75 per cent.

Media Release Number 2013-11: At its May 2013 meeting, the Payments System Board decided to hold a consultation on the access regimes applying to the MasterCard credit and the Visa credit and Visa debit systems.

At its meeting today, the Board decided to lower the cash rate by 25 basis points to 2.75 per cent, effective 8 May 2013.

Media Release Number 2013-09: The Reserve Bank of Australia today launches its 2013 RBA/ESA Economics Competition in conjunction with the Economic Society of Australia (ESA) and the UNSW Economics Society. The competition is for Australian university students and each year challenges them to examine important and topical economic issues affecting Australia.

Media Release Number 2013-08: In October 2012, the Reserve Bank announced that it would be introducing new criteria for eligibility of residential mortgage backed securities (RMBS) in its operations. This reflects the Bank’s desire to receive more comprehensive and standardised information on the RMBS that are eligible under repurchase agreements (repo), and to promote broader transparency in the securitisation market. At that time, the Bank released, for comment, the reporting templates that issuers of RMBS will need to complete and make publicly available for their securities to be eligible for repo with the Bank (for details see Media Release 2012-31). The consultation period closed on 28 December 2012.