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Alphabet features self-driving garbage cans, apartment noise monitors in Toronto smart city project
NBN Co is skipping "thousands" of premises a month
New Zealand to get 10 Gbps fibre to premises in 2020
Negative interest rates threaten to choke bank IT systems
Twitter tightens bans on political ads and causes
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API days for eftpos plan to undercut Afterpay
Kids stolen your old Bon Jovi shirt? Your debit card could be next ...
Oct 25 2019 1:29PM
Facebook's Libra faces support test after payment giants jump ship
Faces a pivotal meeting of backers on Monday after severe setback.
Oct 15 2019 6:59AM
EBay, Stripe join PayPal in exiting Facebook's cryptocurrency Libra
More setbacks amid major backer exodus.
Oct 14 2019 6:45AM
Visa, Mastercard reconsider backing Facebook's Libra - WSJ
Credit card giants feel global regulatory heat.
Oct 2 2019 1:05PM
India tells tech firms to protect user privacy, prevent abuse
As government draws up a data privacy law and pushes local data storage.
Sep 20 2019 6:55AM
Visa, Mastercard pile into fintech Plaid
Disclosed as strategic investors in a $250 million round of financing in December.
Sep 17 2019 6:59AM
NAB wants Android handsets to replace card payment terminals
Partners with Quest to accept NFC -to-phone transactions.
Aug 6 2019 6:15PM
Goldman hopes to lure iBorrowers with Apple card launch
Could be in stores later this week.
Aug 6 2019 12:52PM
Opal travel discounts extended to credit cards
Buses to accept scheme payments.
Jul 29 2019 10:24AM
CBA moves to salve tap-payments cost sting
Enables contactless to run over eftpos.
Jul 2 2019 7:15AM
UK extends deadline for tougher online payment ID checks
If compliance steps are already underway.
Jul 1 2019 7:00AM
Banks to be fined for online fraud failures
Tardy merchants will also cop sting.
Jun 25 2019 12:52PM
Tap-and-go fee gouging explodes
Retailers cop $100m contactless cost-shift.
Jun 24 2019 12:56PM
Exclusive: US tells India it is mulling caps on H-1B visas to deter data rules
Over rules that force foreign companies to store data locally.
Jun 20 2019 12:58PM
Facebook reveals Libra cryptocurrency, with lofty goals
Attempts move into e-commerce and global payments.
Jun 18 2019 8:00PM
Eftpos debits HSBC’s tech chief in battle against US card giants
Bolsters senior tech ranks for online push in months.
Jun 5 2019 6:23PM
Aussie banks face legacy time bomb under massive SWIFT upgrade
RBA reveals deadline for Australian systems migration.
Apr 8 2019 12:36PM
UK competition watchdog probes Visa's acquisition of Earthport
Investigates planned acquisition of payment company.
Apr 8 2019 6:55AM
Bank of England tells Visa Europe to hire PwC after 2018 outage
To avoid a repeat.
Mar 11 2019 6:25AM
Westpac poised to switch on Apple Pay
After upgrades at subsidiaries push eftpos through Google Pay.
Feb 27 2019 6:45AM
