System Availability Statistics 2026

The RBA has committed to providing quarterly operational reliability figures for its payment settlement services. For more details on each of these services and the availability calculations and targets, see About RITS, System Availability.

System Availability: 2026
System March quarter
Per cent
RITS(a) 99.560
RITS settlement services for:
– Cash Transfers(b) 99.954
– SWIFT(c) 99.940
– Austraclear(d) 99.948
– Batch feeders(e) 98.718
– LVSS(f) 99.242
FSS(g) 100.000
LVCS(h) 99.556

Notes: Availability is calculated as the amount of time that a system is not experiencing an outage, as a proportion of the core operating hours for that system. Availability for recent quarters may be subject to revision.

(a) RITS availability is the average of the availability of the component settlement services for Cash Transfers, SWIFT, Austraclear, Batch feeders and LVSS.
(b) Cash Transfers are entered directly to RITS by ESA holders to transfer ES funds between each other. They are typically used for the settlement of interbank overnight cash market transactions and obligations arising from agency arrangements for the low-value clearing systems.
(c) Real-time Gross Settlement (RTGS) of high-value payments exchanged via SWIFT.
(d) RTGS of interbank obligations arising from debt securities settlements in the ASX Austraclear system.
(e) Batch settlement services for property (PEXA and ASXF batches), CHESS, eftpos and Mastercard.
(f) Multilateral net settlement services for other low-value payments clearing systems (e.g. cheques and direct entry).
(g) RTGS of payments exchanged via the NPP.
(h) A non-settlement service that facilitates the transfer of payment clearing files between participants in low-value clearing systems (e.g. cheques and direct entry).

Source: RBA

March Quarter

In the March quarter there was an incident involving the LVCS and the LVSS resulting in 6 hours and 49 minutes of disruption. It also delayed property settlement in RITS, a disruption of 7 hours and 28 minutes, followed by a second separate issue interrupting property settlement processing for a further 2 hours and 52 minutes. A deliberate 25-minute outage to Cash Transfers, SWIFT and Austraclear settlement was initiated to enable safe resumption. See the Final Incident Report for detail.