About the AUD/BND rate
The AUD/BND rate is how many BND one Australian dollar buys. It moves constantly with interest-rate expectations, commodity prices and global risk sentiment - see what moves the rate. Tradergy shows the mid-market reference rate and does not forecast where it’s heading. For the 52-week highs and lows and a daily table, see the AUD/BND rate history.
Related views of this rate: the reverse rate, BND → AUD, is on the receiving Brunei dollar view, and sending Australian dollars to Brunei is covered on the AUD → BND transfer page. Every AUD pair sits on the convert hub, and to work in more than one currency at once there is the currency converter.
What Brunei stopped issuing, and why
Brunei has issued denominations up to B$10,000, and stopped. A press release from the country's monetary authority dated 29 September 2020 announced that from 2 November that year the B$10,000 note would no longer be issued to banks in Brunei Darussalam and would subsequently be withdrawn from circulation, as one of the steps taken to reduce the risks associated with financial crimes such as money laundering, terrorism financing and the counterfeiting of high denomination currency notes. The note remains legal tender and retains full face value; what ceased was issuance.
The new series confirms the direction. In September 2025 the central bank announced a Family Banknotes Series for circulation in the first half of 2026, in five denominations only: B$1, B$5, B$10, B$100 and B$500. Existing banknotes stay legal tender and circulate alongside the new ones, with no requirement to exchange them, and the notes carry a raised tactile feature in the lower right corner with a distinct arrangement of dots for each denomination.
The portraits carry across the change. The BND1 through BND100 notes retain the portrait of the Sultan and Yang Di-Pertuan of Brunei Darussalam, and the BND500 retains Al-Marhum Sultan Haji Omar 'Ali Saifuddien. The coinage is on a slower cycle still: the central bank introduced its fifth series of coins in 2017 and says it will continue to monitor whether a new one is needed. One older piece of wording is being dropped along the way: across the new series the term "Ringgit" has been replaced with "Brunei Dollars". Polymer notes were first introduced in Brunei in 1996, on the central bank's own account, and under the Currency Order of 2004 only that bank may issue the country's notes and coins.
Sources: Autoriti Monetari Brunei Darussalam, press release on the B$10,000 currency note, 29 September 2020 · Brunei Darussalam Central Bank, new Family Banknotes Series, 22 September 2025 · Brunei Darussalam Central Bank, frequently asked questions on the new banknote series · Brunei Darussalam Central Bank, currency issuance and management