Six weeks into Payday Super, MYOB data shows payroll rhythms changed faster than expected, handing Australian Payments Plus fresh New Payments Platform volume while the risk shifts to super fund connectivity.

The end of card surcharging on October 1 has merchants across Australia looking at ways to hand out and handle more cash.

Federal government agencies and at least two state governments are collectively looking for ways to dodge more than an estimated $100 million in card fees when credit and debit card surcharging ends on October 1.

AusPayNet's first Resilience in Payments report calls preparedness an industry-wide job, but its only Australian case study is the 2023 Optus outage, not July's Telstra failure.

Visa's average credit card merchant fee reached 1.00% in the June quarter, the highest since the RBA began publishing fees by scheme, and up five basis points over the year, further than any other scheme. Amex was the bigger mover in the quarter, and eftpos the only scheme merchants paid less to accept than a year ago.

On The Interchange Bench this week, Brazil’s A2A network draws a tariff, a fake Matt Comyn offers us US $35 million in a Whatsapp scam, former RBA payments policy boss Tony Richards is looking for new recruits, Hello Clever gets a new legal eagle and payments industry veteran, kiwi Centrapay recruits Tim Wixon and Pyng launches rewards play.

Ubiquitous, domestically-owned, cheaper and faster, account-to-account (A2A) retail payments are booming in Malaysia, so why isn’t it taking off in Australia?

Australia's real-time payments future is moving deeper into detailed deliberations about roadmap development, with customers still waiting to join the official conversation and regulators keep close watch.

Three reforms are converging to strengthen PayTo, delivering stronger consumer protections, clearer fraud liability and greater confidence in account-to-account payments as merchants search for trusted, low-cost alternatives to cards.

The Commonwealth Bank says escalating geopolitical tensions, cyber threats and artificial intelligence are transforming operational resilience from a compliance obligation into a competitive advantage for financial institutions and payments providers.