Briefs: Mint moves into the Asian payments market, RBNZ appointment, NZ drops bank probe, Bank of To
Payment processor Mint Payments has signed a service agreement with Asian Business Software Solutions of Singapore to distribute Mint's payment solutions with ABSS's MYOB branded software. Mint will receive a licence fee from ABSS and a clip of the transaction fees generated through use of its services. Mint has had a similar agreement with MYOB in Australia since 2014. Mint has done a number of licencing deals over the past year, including agreements with the payment gateway company eWay, the taxi booking and payment service goCatch and the travel agency software company Tramada Systems. The Reserve Bank of New Zealand has appointed Steve Gordon as its new Head of Currency, Property and Security to replace Brian Hayr, who is taking up a position at Innovia Security in May. Gordon joined the central bank in 2012 from BNZ, where he was Head of Audit. He is currently head of Risk, Assessment and Assurance at the Reserve Bank. New Zealand's Commerce Commission has completed its investigation into claims of collusion by banks in the foreign exchange markets and has decided not to prosecute anyone. "The investigation did not uncover any evidence that would justify enforcement action and as such the case has been closed," Commission Spokesman Christian Bonnevie said. ank of Tokyo Mitsubishi UFJ, Sydney Branch, has mandated Morgan Stanley, MUFG, ANZ and NAB for "a potential" four-year Australian dollar denominated senior unsecured TCD. Whether the deal goes ahead is, of course, "subject to market conditions", as one of the banks on the deal explained. Likewise, Credit Union Australia has mandated ANZ and CBA to arrange a series of fixed-income investor meetings in Sydney and Melbourne in the week of 14 March. Any potential capital markets transaction is, of course, subject to that same phrase. ASIC has released its first assessment report on the cyber resilience of local exchanges ASX and Chi-X. The report concludes that ASX and Chi-X have, up to this point in time, met their statutory obligations to have sufficient resources for the management of cyber resilience, widely regarded as one of the most significant concerns for the financial services industry and the economy at large. Given the central role that financial market infrastructure providers play in our economy, their cyber resilience is of particular importance