Australia Post promises at least 4,000 retail outlets, but some already operate without cash and hundreds lack Bank@Post, raising questions about what ...
On The Interchange Bench this week, TNS promotes PAX chief Johnson to global role, Walsh appointed pay’s marketing chief, Younes takes on ...
Coles has shut down Coles Pay but is stepping up Flybuys rewards ahead of Christmas just as Australia’s banks cut credit card ...
Australian merchants using Adobe Commerce and Magento were last week urged to apply security patches immediately after authorities warned a critical vulnerability ...
Crypto executives say AUSTRAC’s recent crackdowns will strengthen the industry’s legitimacy. ...
India has put account-to-account (A2A) payments behind the same tap consumers use for cards, potentially removing a critical adoption barrier that has ...
In a regulatory free environment, American Express has created a Supplier Trade Fee (STF) allowing eligible B2B merchants to recover transaction costs ...
Australian customers were not impacted after the global fintech was tricked into handing sensitive customer information to scammers raising fresh concerns about ...
Commentator Vibhu Arya breaks down the recent RBA submissions, analysing who is lobbying for what at a high level. ...
Australian merchants on Shopify will have another BNPL option to pay with the launch of Shop Pay Installments. ...
NAB and Australian Payments Plus (AP+) have warned that card tokenisation could undermine the merchant benefits of least-cost routing, but differ on ...
Melbourne-based gifting group Limitless Technology has consolidated four payment gateways onto Adyen, simplifying payments across five brands and six Asia-Pacific markets as ...
Australian fintech heavyweights led by Airwallex, Adyen, Azupay and Digital Economy Council has put access to the NPP at the centre of ...
Australia’s central bank sees little need for a digital dollar for consumers, but is pushing ahead with plans to reshape RITS for ...
Local American Express boss Corrina Davison has found herself increasingly isolated as banks, merchants and card schemes urge the Reserve Bank to ...
As the RBA mulls Australia’s payments future, Vietnam offers an intriguing case study: cash remains strong, while high card fees have helped ...
Australia’s card networks have joined forces on an industry marketing “education” campaign to sell the October surcharge ban they lobbied for, after ...
Western Union is now under enforcement investigation over its agent network six weeks before its biggest Australian agent walks after 22 years. ...
Suncorp Bank merchants face a firm December deadline to find a new payments provider, months before 1.2 million Suncorp customers complete their ...
Debit card spending grew 10.1% over the 12 months to July to $693.2 billion, in the first double-digit reading since late 2023. ...
Payments talent recruiter and CEO of Paralel Craig Danvers looks at change in the Australian payments market over the past decade – ...
On The Interchange Bench this week, Tyro's Lee learns the hard way, a familiar face resurfaces at Salter Brothers, Revolut's unlikely wingman, ...
Treasury will consult on a refreshed Strategic Plan for Australia’s Payments System later this year as part of a broader push to ...
Armaguard has become the first company captured by Australia’s new cash distribution regime, giving regulators significant new powers as unresolved battles over ...
The company has seen a reshuffle at the top, with Kevin Butler moving to CPO. ...
A collaboration between DataMesh and Castles Technology brings a range of devices to Australia, giving customers more choice. ...
When Government IT veteran Charles McHardie steps into the role of Chief Information Officer, the central bank will be battling decade-long delays ...
New research from AP+ and Crisil Coalition Greenwich says corporate Australia is embracing real-time payments as finance leaders look beyond speed, in ...
The RBA has been regulating interchange for more than two decades but not everyone is a winner. The savings are distributed unequally ...
A new partnership will focus on integrating Chinese-originated payment methods with Australian and New Zealand card payment infrastructure, allowing businesses seamless payment ...
Businesses that play an important role in helping detect and prevent money laundering but are not enrolled under Australia’s AML and CTF ...
If Australian banks are trying to kill cash, Italy offers a fascinating warning: even mandating electronic payment acceptance across virtually the entire ...
Through the partnership of global company’s TenPay Global and Western Union, Weixin Mini Program launches, making Australia-to-China remittances more convenient and accessible. ...
Commonwealth Bank will cut its blended merchant fees to 0.99% from October, but the reduction does not appear to pass on all ...
On The Interchange Bench this week, Stripe walks away from $53bn PayPal takeover, the ACCC advises on October 1 price displays, NSW ...
Aussie fintech Hello Clever has partnered with Banking Circle to expand the payment, settlement and treasury services it delivers to merchants both ...
Macquarie wants AP+ running BECS and the NPP, while fintechs have attacked the NPP access costs. ...
Lower interchange caps from October 1 are forcing both airline programs to move to direct earn and push customers to payment platforms, ...
Move over American Express, Commonwealth Bank (CBA) just secured the exclusive rights to be Discover's issuer in Australia, with plenty of perks ...
Tyro's share price took another hit yesterday as the company delivered its FY26 guidance with profit before tax jumping 40 per cent ...
Stripe Treasury gives Australian customers a unified financial platform to manage incoming and outgoing flows across currencies from a single account, bypassing ...
Commonwealth Bank has launched PaidIt, combining identity verification and real-time payments to help organisations find recipients and deliver settlements, remediation payments and ...
With organic growth at 6%, the company concedes an already flat acquiring line will be its challenged business in FY27 but claims ...
Westpac New Zealand has added personalised cashback offers to its hotpoints Mastercard program, using customer spending patterns to deliver targeted merchant rewards ...
Luxury Escapes is considering varying its own rewards points by payment method, and its CEO Adam Schwab says the merchant fee savings ...
AUSTRAC has confirmed payment platforms are included in its mortgage fraud crackdown, with CEO Brendan Thomas pointing to source-of-funds verification as the ...
Amongst the noise of CommBank’s announcement about its Yello rewards program there was a more significant announcement that has rocked the card ...
Bill platforms including Sniip, pay.com.au and B2Bpay will still charge card payers fees after October 1, on volume the Reserve Bank's ban ...
The ACCC has cleared the National Australia Bank, Westpac, ANZ and Bank of Queensland to start their regional ATM experiment, but has ...
November 1 is when things get messy