Consumers embrace contactless payments

Enthusiasm for contactless payments continues to surge, with new research showing almost three in five Australians now have a contactless card, and 40 per cent of this cohort use them regularly. read more

RBS shows the way with big data

The Royal Bank of Scotland is deploying ground-breaking analytics to deliver a new class of service to its business clients. Its analytics division has developed techniques that allow it to map and.. read more

Healthy demand for workplace banking

ME Bank plans to roll out services to 70 more workplace-based banking locations in the next year, adding to the 83 already installed since the program was launched in July 2011. The following year,.. read more

Bankers told to 'embrace the threat'

Banks must embrace experimentation if they are going to keep pace with customer expectations and the speed at which start-up financial service providers operate. Bankwest's chief executive of enterp.. read more

NAB ahead of schedule with technology upgrade

NAB spent $200 million on software related to its NextGeneration technology transformation during the last financial year and claims it is on track for its 2016 project completion deadline. Chief e.. read more

New NFC payment standard for New Zealand

Payments NZ has completed drafting a series of standards intended to steer the rollout of Near Field Communication-enabled contactless mobile payments applications. The final version of standards and.. read more