Does your Saturday night include eating a meal that was purchased from an app and delivered to your door, whilst streaming the latest Yellowstone spin off? You are
University students are jumping on PayID to pay their fees, thanks to an Azupay integration with Curtin.
Australia’s wholesale financial system has fallen behind its dynamic retail payments market, prompting the RBA and banks to accelerate tokenised deposits as stablecoins emerge as a competitive threat
Groupe BPCE has built a bank-owned merchant platform to challenge Stripe in Europe. Commonwealth Bank’s IPSI acquisition raises the question: is the same model coming to Australian merchants
RBA Governor Michele Bullock expects to see problems after surcharging disappears next month, while small business merchants must wait months for clearer statements and regulators keep watch on
Can I use crypto for that? Industry experts tell PayDay News that regulation and the growing availability will soon accelerate the growth of crypto in Aussie retail but key problems still need to be addressed.
Westpac has undercut CommBank’s 0.99% flat rate with a market-leading 0.79% but it applies only to instore transactions at standard terminals, excluding American Express acceptance and its EFTPOS Air mobile terminal product.
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Payments COMMENTARY ▸
The distinction between three and four party schemes in Australia is increasingly blurry, writes Vibhu Arya. ...
$200 billion-plus. That is the scale and opportunity around NSW Government's annual payment activity, with money moving in and out of government every day. ...
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THE INTERCHANGE BENCH ▸
On The Interchange Bench this week, Ollerenshaw joins Cuscal as chief people officer, Haylock goes to market at Hello, Amex serves up NFL slice of Americana, Visa’s up for some ...
On The Interchange Bench this week, TNS promotes PAX chief Johnson to global role, Walsh appointed pay’s marketing chief, Younes takes on platforms at Stripe, Edwards lands as head of ...
A2A ▸
University students are jumping on PayID to pay their fees, thanks to an Azupay integration with Curtin.
After a direct transfer of its Australian Payments Plus (AP+) relationship, the newly acquired Bolt Group app continues to be directly banked through Cuscal, despite its new owner’s
India has put account-to-account (A2A) payments behind the same tap consumers use for cards, potentially removing a critical adoption barrier that has frustrated Australian payment providers for almost
As the RBA mulls Australia’s payments future, Vietnam offers an intriguing case study: cash remains strong, while high card fees have helped QR-based account payments leapfrog cards.
Australian fintech heavyweights led by Airwallex, Adyen, Azupay and Digital Economy Council has put access to the NPP at the centre of the RBA’s regulatory review, calling for
CARDS ▸
Square is routing debit transactions through Visa and Mastercard rather than eftpos, raising questions about Cuscal’s role and the future economics of Australia’s domestic debit network.
When the first post-surcharging merchant statements hit struggling small businesses on 1 November, expect a loud and ugly reaction to the bill shock.
Coles has shut down Coles Pay but is stepping up Flybuys rewards ahead of Christmas just as Australia’s banks cut credit card perks, reframe loyalty offerings and consumers
Local American Express boss Corrina Davison has found herself increasingly isolated as banks, merchants and card schemes urge the Reserve Bank to bring three-party card networks inside equivalent
NAB and Australian Payments Plus (AP+) have warned that card tokenisation could undermine the merchant benefits of least-cost routing, but differ on how far regulators should intervene and
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Topics: CASH ▸
The Reserve Bank says the cash it prints remains critical to Australia’s payments system, while leaving industry to resolve the ...
Australia Post promises at least 4,000 retail outlets, but some already operate without cash and hundreds lack Bank@Post, raising questions ...
Armaguard has become the first company captured by Australia’s new cash distribution regime, giving regulators significant new powers as unresolved ...
Topics: BANKS ▸
Australia’s wholesale financial system has fallen behind its dynamic retail payments market, prompting the RBA and banks to accelerate tokenised ...
CBA-owned ASB is changing leaders as New Zealand confronts major decisions on cash, real-time payments, open banking and stronger Trans-Tasman ...
The ACCC has approved an ABA regional ATM trial, but limited it to 20 machines, three years and narrowly defined ...
Topics: SCAMS & FRAUD ▸
The Intergenerational Report warns AI-powered scams, cyberattacks and geopolitical fragmentation will reshape payment risks, while Payday Super embeds payments infrastructure ...
Australian customers were not impacted after the global fintech was tricked into handing sensitive customer information to scammers raising fresh ...
Australian merchants using Adobe Commerce and Magento were last week urged to apply security patches immediately after authorities warned a ...
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