Critical payments infrastructure that delivers payrolls and property settlements across Australia has been hit by another major outage, with the Reserve Bank of Australia confirming on Thursday that one of its core transactional systems fell offline between 10.30am and 5.20pm on Tuesday, delaying some settlements nationally. The RBA, which usually polices technology outages at banks, said that while its Fast Settlements Service had not been hit by the outage, the incident had “resulted in some file-based payments being unable to be processed.”