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Cash
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Jun 17, 2026
Cash tax imminent for Aussie regions as Armaguard confirms new pricing is close
Armaguard has confirmed the long-delayed Deloitte pricing model is close to final, but industry insiders warn it will feature a tiered model that gets more expensive the further you get from the capital city CBDs.
HR
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Jun 17, 2026
Tyro cuts jobs, chases big customers as Lee shifts gear for "growth phase"
After revealing plans to finally put its under-utilised banking licence to work, Tyro, CEO, Nigel Lee, is now taking an axe to headcount, reprioritising resources and chasing bigger customers in an effort to bolster the company's lagging performance.
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TRENDING
Featured
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Jun 17, 2026
Banking Circle opens Australia to pipeline of global stablecoin players
Banking Circle is expanding its Australian stablecoin push, introducing a pipeline of international digital asset firms to local payment rails while remaining silent on recent PayTo disruptions involving two customers.
Featured
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Jun 17, 2026
Home Affairs wants telcos and cloud giants to stop cyber threats upstream
The new Horizon 2 plan leans on the companies sitting above your screen, the telcos and cloud operators, to kill attacks at scale and speed before they result in system attacks, data breaches, fraud and scams in Australia.
Featured
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Jun 17, 2026
ConnectID rolls out nationally through Telstra retail network as Canberra’s scam rules loom
With the fight against scams and fraud firmly on the political agenda, Telstra just made it simpler to verify your identity using the payments rails, allowing you to check in with an organisation that already knows who you are - like one of the Big Four banks, Westpac, Commonwealth Bank (CBA), ANZ and NAB – without sharing sensitive documents.
Featured
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Jun 17, 2026
Amex ordered to compensate customer after privacy breach
The Australian Privacy Commissioner has ordered American Express Australia to compensate a customer, apologise and strengthen internal controls after finding the card issuer failed to adequately protect personal information from unauthorised employee access.
Cash
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Jun 10, 2026
Big four move to outfox Armaguard at arm's length
ANZ, CBA, NAB and Westpac have asked the ACCC for authorisation to run cash distribution through a jointly owned company that replaces Westpac as the Reserve Bank's licence holder, spreads the banknote liability 25% each, and keeps Armaguard at arm's length.
Banks
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Jun 10, 2026
CBA unleashes AI “Companion” for testing on real customers
Commonwealth Bank’s AI vision just got real, with the bank unleashing “CommBank Companion” for testing on both businesses and consumers last week.
Cards
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Jun 10, 2026
No concessions as Melbourne turns on $2B tap transit tech and Sydney moves on
A “successful trial” of standard tap and go transit payments tech in Melbourne will finally see the service expand over the coming week - just as Sydney rapidly moves to the next generation which includes concession ticket-holders such as kids, pensioners and people with disabilities.
Fintech
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Jun 10, 2026
Volt and Trade Nation launch real-time payments for Australian traders, starting a global partnership
Kicking off a global launch in Australia with PayID, a partnership between Volt, Trade Nation and Praxis promises to bring A2A capabilities through a single integration to trading clients.
Cash
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Jun 3, 2026
Cards remain top of the charts but is cash making a comeback?
The Reserve Bank has released the results of the 2025 Consumer Payments survey, showing that cards remain king, account-to-account adoption remains slow, and cash might be making a resurgence.
Banks
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Jun 3, 2026
CBA sounds the bell on AI job losses but are payments functions on the block?
So far most Australian institutions have been reluctant to identify AI replacing jobs but the evidence from offshore on fraud, AML, compliance and back office staff is clear. The nation’s biggest payments player - Commonwealth Bank - is leading the AI charge locally, in the footsteps of global counterparts like HSBC, Citi, JP Morgan, Visa, Mastercard, PayPal and Block.
Fintech
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Jun 3, 2026
Fiserv doubles down - bans its merchants from recovering fees from all networks and international tourists
While the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) and ACCC have only talked about surcharge restrictions for Visa, Mastercard and eftpos, US payments giant Fiserv’s Australian operation is going the whole hog - banning its unwitting merchant customers from surcharging everything from Amex, China Union Pay and Discover.
