When the COVID19 pandemic was declared, government departments charged with responding to the emergency used the NPP to access funding in near real-time, thanks to a significant program of work that was completely literally weeks before. In this episode of NPP Soundbites, Deputy Head of the Reserve Bank of Australia’s Banking Department, Stephanie Connors, describes this work and why we are just seeing the beginning of the modernisation of the government’s banking capabilities using the NPP.