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News about card payments, including debit, credit and pre-paid cards
Fintech
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Dec 17, 2025
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Airwallex takes on Square, PayPal, Stripe and Adyen with global omnichannel POS play
Aussie-born payments outfit Airwallex is about to venture into the POS terminal market globally, with a slick new machine to take on big players like Square, PayPal, Stripe and Adyen in 2026.
Fintech
+4
Dec 17, 2025
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Blockley hangs up his payments consulting hat
After 37 years of consulting for some of the nation’s biggest banks and global card schemes, the big end of town’s gun for hire Lance Blockley is hanging up his hat at The Initiatives Group (TIG) and passing on the mantle.
Cash
+12
Dec 17, 2025
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Massive year in payments but 2026 looms even larger
There will be little rest for the payments industry this summer, as businesses, regulators and lawmakers get ready for a raft of big changes in the New Year. In the final edition of PayDay News for 2025, we look at the big changes this year, and what to expect in 2026.
Fintech
+2
Dec 17, 2025
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Mint Payments partners with Zip Co to add flexible payment options for travel merchants
Mint Payments and Zip Co have partnered to introduce flexible payment options for travel bookings across Mint’s merchant network.
Cash
+2
Dec 10, 2025
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Device-not-present transactions account for 85% of card payment growth
The dominance of device-not-present payments continues to reshape the Australian payments landscape. The latest RBA data shows that of the $107.4 billion increase in annual card spend over the past year, $90.8 billion, 84.6% of total growth, has come from online shopping, bill payments and subscriptions.
Cards
+1
Dec 10, 2025
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Littlepay taps Wellington, showing Australia how a city's contactless transit can be done
In stark contrast to Australian transit payment project overruns and delays, Melbourne transit payments outfit Littlepay will deliver a contactless transit system for Wellington, New Zealand, for NZ$5.5 million in just six months.
Fintech
+1
Dec 3, 2025
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Emma Burke to steer Tyro through critical Christmas peak
When Jon Davey leaves Tyro’s head office for the last time on Friday, the company’s CFO Emma Burke will temporarily take charge of one of the nation’s biggest acquirers for a critical five-week period – the annual peak payments period over Christmas and the Boxing Day sales.
Banks
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Dec 3, 2025
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NAB completes Citibank migration, becomes nation’s super Issuer
NAB just became Australia’s biggest card issuer with the completion of the Citibank migration, and now it wants relief on the Reserve Bank’s proposed interchange cuts.
Fintech
+2
Dec 3, 2025
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Staff get 12 month reprieve as Cuscal completes Indue deal
Cuscal has completed its acquisition of Indue on schedule, and while staff get a 12 month reprieve on job cuts as we head into the holidays, Indue executives might not be so lucky.
Fintech
+1
Nov 26, 2025
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Cuscal celebrates ASX 1st birthday with “best IPO” award
Cuscal celebrated its first birthday on the ASX yesterday and took out “Best IPO Listing” at the Adam Smith Awards Asia 2025 in Singapore.
Fintech
+2
Nov 26, 2025
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Tyro cuts rates in Christmas deal with Visa and Mastercard
Tyro’s outgoing CEO Jon Davey has handed some small business customers a fee cut from next week, lowering prices just in time for Christmas.
Fintech
+3
Nov 19, 2025
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Aussies to sleigh holiday sales using AI as Santa’s helper
More than half of Aussies under 45 are planning to use creative AI tools to assist with holiday shopping, according to new research from PayPal.
Banks
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Nov 19, 2025
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NAB races to land Citi migration by December as customers brace for rewards change
Former Citi customers will be migrated to the new MyCard platform but more work remains on balances and with partners, as looming RBA interchange cuts threatens existing rewards.
