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Aussies have 25% chance of being hit by significant payments outages, data shows

Senior Business Analyst
24 Feb, 2025
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Peter Drennan
Senior Business Analyst
24 Feb, 2025
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How likely is a major payments outage for Aussie consumers and businesses? We have the new data on retail payments service reliability that shows you have about a 25% chance of being hit this year.
Aussies have 25% chance of being hit by significant payments outages, data shows
Over the course of the year, there was a 25% chance that a payment service provided would see a ‘significant’ outage.

How likely is a major payments outage for Aussie consumers and businesses? We have the new data on retail payments service reliability that shows you have about a 25% chance of being hit this year.

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