•    Bank of Queensland will stump up almost A$145 million to redeem up to 1.41 million convertible preference shares issued in December 2012. In filings to the ASX on Monday BoQ said it would complete the redemption program on 16 April. The bank issued an early conversion/redemption notice in February and trading in the preference shares was suspended on 5 March.•    Bendigo Bank, apparently unwilling to miss out when it comes to contactless cardless payments gadgets, will add Fitbit Pay and Garmin Pay to its existing Apple Pay, Samsung Pay and Google Pay systems, making it just the second bank, after ANZ, to offer all five of the most popular alternative payments systems. Customers of Bendigo Bank - the retail arm of Bendigo and Adelaide Bank - make about 11 million contactless payments transactions each month, "with mobile wallet transactions steadily growing", the bank said.•    Vittoria Shortt, who replaced Barbara Chapman as CEO of ASB, has now been appointed to the ASB board of directors as well.