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Visa says we’re living in age of the “couch economy”

Visa says we’re living in age of the “couch economy”

Does your Saturday night include eating a meal that was purchased from an app and delivered to your door, whilst streaming the ...
Is CBA building Australia’s answer to BPCE’s new merchant portal and Stripe?

Is CBA building Australia’s answer to BPCE’s new merchant portal and Stripe?

Groupe BPCE has built a bank-owned merchant platform to challenge Stripe in Europe. Commonwealth Bank’s IPSI acquisition raises the question: is the ...
Mastercard’s wallet launch goes beyond cards with no Aussie partner

Mastercard’s wallet launch goes beyond cards with no Aussie partner

Mastercard has unveiled a global platform to put digital wallets onto its payments network, but no Australian bank, fintech, PSP or wallet ...
RBA puts retail digital dollar on ice as tokenised wholesale push grows

RBA puts retail digital dollar on ice as tokenised wholesale push grows

Australia’s central bank sees little need for a digital dollar for consumers, but is pushing ahead with plans to reshape RITS for ...
Western Union & TenPay Global partner to launch Weixin Mini Program

Western Union & TenPay Global partner to launch Weixin Mini Program

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. ...
Stripe Treasury launches in Australia, unifying payments and global money management

Stripe Treasury launches in Australia, unifying payments and global money management

Stripe Treasury gives Australian customers a unified financial platform to manage incoming and outgoing flows across currencies from a single account, bypassing ...
Pay with a smile: Verifone brings biometric-capable devices to Australia

Pay with a smile: Verifone brings biometric-capable devices to Australia

Straight out of a Ridley Scott sci-fi thriller, Aussies could soon pay with face and palm verification technology as Verifone brings biometric ...
Stripe’s tiny fee cut won’t achieve RBA’s claimed savings

Stripe’s tiny fee cut won’t achieve RBA’s claimed savings

If payments behemoth Stripe’s tiny 0.05% fee cuts are anything to go by, the RBA has no chance of achieving its promised ...
PayPal tops AFCA merchant facilities complaints with Stripe close behind

PayPal tops AFCA merchant facilities complaints with Stripe close behind

PayPal remained the most complained-about merchant facilities provider in Australia during the 2025-26 financial year, with new Australian Financial Complaints Authority (AFCA) ...
Tyro and GapOnly launch portal to streamline pet insurance claims

Tyro and GapOnly launch portal to streamline pet insurance claims

Tyro Health has launched a new GapOnly Vet Portal that combines real-time pet insurance claims and digital payments in a single workflow ...
Hello Clever targets Stripe Connect with real-time platform launch

Hello Clever targets Stripe Connect with real-time platform launch

Sydney-based fintech Hello Clever has launched a new payments platform product aimed squarely at competing with Stripe Connect, promising real-time settlement, dedicated ...
Local banks face a global online monopoly as Stripe moves on PayPal

Local banks face a global online monopoly as Stripe moves on PayPal

With CBA the only local bank to have flagged using its local “on-us” advantage to create a strong local challenger, the deal ...

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