RBNZ to assess 3-hour settlement system outage

RBNZ to assess 3-hour settlement system outage
Staff reporters
Transactions are now flowing through the Reserve Bank's exchange settlement account system after a three-hour outage this morning, the central bank said in a statement.“While the system is back online we are continuing to work with ESAS users to keep them updated about the outage. We will also be undertaking an assessment to confirm what caused the outage,” said assistant governor Christian Hawkesby.ESAS allows individual transactions between financial institutions to be settled electronically as they happen. For example, when t...