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Teachers Mutual Bank is planning to roll out video-conferencing in the coming year in order to provide more of its 166,000 members with face-to-face services. read more

Up to 55,000 of Australia's small businesses may qualify for PayPal loans of up to A$20,000 when the payments facilitator's credit program launches later this year. read more

CBA let NAB steal its thunder of a CBD-based innovation hub this week in the Fin, giving the latter a rare piece of decent PR. read more

Not everything will work out in technology gaming in banking. The Albert point of sale device, being developed in association with Wincor Nixdorf, is still not released, despite being announced well.. read more

MasterCard has invited Melbourne-based programmer Peter Fillmore, who this week claimed to have been able to clone secure content from his contactless payment cards onto a smartphone and use that to b.. read more

A Melbourne based programmer claims to have cloned the secure content on tap-and-go payment cards by copying and uploading that information onto a specially written smartphone application. He then use.. read more

Poor data quality and lack of standardisation is holding back the financial sector's ability to effectively analyse and reap value from big data. read more

MasterCard has started talks with issuing banks in Australia ahead of the official launch of its "Priceless Engine" in the first quarter of 2015 - a service intended to deliver a marketing leg-up to t.. read more

Apple may want a slice of the payments market following this week's announcement of the NFC-enabled iPhone6, the new smartwatch and the Apple Pay system. But the technology giant will first have to ov.. read more

Westpac yesterday unveiled 'the hive', a $4 million early stage innovation hub set up in the old St George headquarters building in Kogarah, NSW. read more