The Payments Spotlight

Feature stories about the movers and shakers in the payments industry

Monoova says PayTo is reaching its next phase of growth

Monoova's new CEO Bianca Bates says that four years after its launch, PayTo is entering a new chapter. The conversation is no ...

Guest Contributor
July 14, 2026

PayTo is just getting started says ANZ

Lisa Vasic, ANZ Managing Director for Transaction Banking, explains the next phase of PayTo will be about scale and integration - expanding ...

Guest Contributor
July 14, 2026

PayTo is moving from emerging innovation to the mainstream

Global Payments' Head of Integrated & Platforms APAC Masseh Haidary writes that the next stage of PayTo will be determined not by ...

Guest Contributor
July 14, 2026

PayTo is “much more than faster and cheaper payments” – Zepto

Zepto’s General Manager, Commercial Emily Curlewis, says PayTo is often described as an instant direct debit replacement, but the opportunity is much ...

Warwick Ponder
July 14, 2026

Just 4 years after launch PayTo’s pumping billions through the economy

This month PayTo turns four years old and it's already pumping an impressive 6 million transactions a year through the Australian economy, ...

Warwick Ponder
July 14, 2026

GT Insurance demonstrates the operational value of PayTo

GT Insurance's implementation of PayTo with NAB shows how the new payments capability can improve the customer experience while also solving operational ...

Guest Contributor
July 14, 2026

First with Apple Pay and an early investor in NPP, ANZ strives for innovation

ANZ’s Managing Director Transaction Banking, Lisa Vasic, explains that as the first bank to introduce Apple Pay to the local market, ANZ ...

PayDay News
April 19, 2026

From cheque books to agentic AI: Global Payments looks at how Australia’s payments system grew up

Forty-two years after Australia's first eftpos payment was made in a Sydney supermarket, Global Payments, Head of Integrated and Platforms for APAC, ...

Alex Zaharov-Reutt
April 19, 2026

How eftpos changed the way Australians pay

Australian Payments Plus (AP+) General Manager Retail Payments, Colin Sultana explains that the first eftpos transaction marked the beginning of electronic payments ...

PayDay News
April 19, 2026

CBA and the evolution of Aussie payments

As the biggest player in the market, the Commonwealth Bank has been at the forefront of electronic payment milestones for the past ...

Staff Reporter
April 19, 2026

New eftpos brand campaign

Australian Payments Plus (AP+) has launched a new eftpos merchant brand campaign, coinciding with the 42nd anniversary of the first electronic card ...

Rachel St Clair
April 19, 2026

The Woolies transaction that sparked a $1 trillion revolution in Aussie card payments

After processing the first EFTPOS transaction back in 1984, Woolworths sparked an electronics payments revolution that now sees Australians make more than ...