Australia. RBA says outage won’t hit pension payments
Pensions and welfare payments do not appear to have been affected by the outage at the Reserve Bank of Australia’s main data centre that hit some payments systems on Thursday afternoon.
In a statement issued on Thursday evening, Australia’s central bank said that “retail and corporate customers are able to make and receive payments including payments made through the New Payments Platform.”
Crucially, the RBA said “domestic payments, including pensions, are also being processed.”
The prospect of government payments being hit by the outage is understood to have triggered a series of urgent meetings in retail banks and some government agencies after it was initially unclear to if the RITS (Reserve Bank Information and Transfer System) had been affected.
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