Digital & Online
News about payments in the online and digital space
Cash
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Mar 25, 2026
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Cyclone Narelle exposes Australia's cashless fragility
Cyclone Narelle ripped through Cape York and slammed into the Northern Territory, affecting dozens of remote communities scattered across the Top End, including their ability to buy anything at all.
Fintech
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Mar 25, 2026
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Pay.com.au's new CTO wants to turn $4.2 trillion in “dead payments” into rewards
Dee Kulkarni on scaling a $633 million Australian fintech into the US, why indecision is the only bad decision, and the budget risk nobody's ignoring.
Fintech
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Mar 4, 2026
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Lessn rewards growth with new investment round
Australian B2B payments platform Lessn has celebrated surpassing $100 million transacted on its platform within its first year of operations, as it enters a new investment round.
Fintech
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Mar 4, 2026
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ParliPay - hours of action-packed TV with a pinch of fiction
Last week I spent two days watching the parade of banking and payment seniors strut their stuff in Canberra at the House Economics Committee – the ParliPay hearings.
Fintech
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Feb 25, 2026
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Bills-for-points fintechs surge as Pay.com.au float looms
A wave of Australian platforms letting businesses put payables on cards to earn frequent-flyer points is accelerating in a sector shaped as much by loyalty economics as payments innovation.
Fintech
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Feb 18, 2026
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DJs adopts Weixin Pay for big spending Chinese tourists
David Jones now accepts Weixin Pay – formerly known as WeChat Pay - enabling big spending Chinese customers to make purchases at preferential exchange rates, and eliminating the need for cash or cards.
