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• Let’s have a debate about bank account portability

  Australia’s payments industry has dodged a bullet in the latest review of payment system reforms, but will need to continue to develop the EFTPOS scheme and M@MBO project if it is to convince the Reserve Bank to step away entirely from interchange fee regulation.Although the industry has revived M...

• Flycke prepares to take on BPAY

  A new payments start-up using the billing system of the Centricom-owned POLi is preparing to take on BPAY.Flycke general manager Anthony Johnston told Online Banking Review the group will launch “in the next couple of weeks” and is currently in talks will small and large billers from the Governm...

• The future for payments – we’ll discuss it at BarCampBank

  If there’s one sector in banking that looks set to transform dramatically in the next few years it’s payments. The investors behind oneTXT and MoBank must agree, having gambled millions of dollars on start-ups seeking to capitalise on mobile and social network payments.The mobile & social ne...

• Payments innovation stalls, starting with project MAMBO

  Australia’s payments industry is looking tired and second-class. It’s something we’ve written about many times, and an issue not lost on the Reserve Bank of Australia, which has done little to hide its concern over the industry’s lack of recent innovation.Now it appears another payments alte...