Tag: New Payments Platform

How NSW govt is embracing digital payments

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
The New South Wales government is readying plans to complete its transition to Australia’s real-time payments system, with the digital foundations that will enable the shift already in place at...

Australian FinTech: Worth its weight in gold

Posted on   |  by Jane Hume
One of the most remarkable things about the COVID pandemic is how investors rushed to listed technology equities as panic struck global markets. Whereas gold has traditionally dominated as...

Digital ID too fragmented, RBA says

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The Australian digital identity ecosystem is “fragmented and siloed”, leading to security and privacy concerns, according to Reserve Bank governor Philip Lowe. At an address to the 2019 Australian...

NPP to open new FinTech growth

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Disruption is streaming through the arteries of Australia’s financial institutions as they attempt to ward off new payments giants like Apple, adapt to FinTech athleticism and a new open...

PC’s grim view of finance sector

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The Productivity Commission’s draft report into competition in the Australian financial system says we lack robust price rivalry, that FinTechs and neo-banks should have better market access, and that...