Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA)

Kabul joins queue for bank services

AUSTRALIA - Two months after John Howard promised Australian help to rebuild Afghanistan's war-ravaged central bank, the Reserve Bank of Australia official chosen to advise his Afghan counterparts is still cooling his heels in Sydney, The Australian…

Speech by Ian Macfarlane, Governor, RBA, 22 Mar

SPEECH - Macfarlane's address, on 'Sir Leslie Melville: His Contribution to Central Banking in Australia', outlined Melville's role at the Commonwealth Bank of Australia when it served as both the central bank and a commercial bank.

Banks tackle RBA in new card twist

AUSTRALIA - The Australian Bankers' Association (ABA) says the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) has hired a lobbyist to promote credit card reform.

Banks in fight over card fees

AUSTRALIA - Banks and credit card issuers are in disagreement with the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) over credit card reforms.

Speech by Glenn Stevens of the RBA, 6 March

SPEECH - Stevens said in the speech titled 'Economic Performance and Issues in 2002' that "as best as we can judge, the economy is not only continuing to expand, but has reasonable prospects of continuing to do so in the near term".

Credit card clean-up in Australia

AUSTRALIA - The Reserve Bank of Australia is poised to make sweeping changes to credit card regulations in 2002. Should it prohibit the banks' interchange fee structure, as has already been flagged, Australia's banks will lose a collective $A400 million…

RBA names new deputy governor

AUSTRALIA - The appointment on Thursday of Mr Glenn Stevens as deputy governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia makes him the frontrunner to become the central bank's next governor.

Speech by David Gruen of the RBA

SPEECH - Speech by David Gruen, Head of Economic Research at the Reserve Bank of Australia at the 2001 Comview Conference of the Victorian Commercial Teachers Association, Melbourne, 27 November.

Banks deal with coin shortage in Australia

AUSTRALIA - Banks in some parts of Australia are experiencing coin shortages. The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA), which recently implemented a new coin distribution system, blames the shortfall on teething problems with the new system.

Bank's rising star tipped to back rate cut

AUSTRALIA - Long serving central banker Glenn Stevens is the emerging frontrunner to become new deputy governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia - and his first decision is likely to be for another cut in interest rates.

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