Visa

• Ian Rogers

Interchange will be in the spotlight in the Reserve Bank of Australia’s upcoming review of payments fees and payments regulation. read more

• Ian Rogers

Following its entry into Eftpos and the New Payments Platform, JP Morgan Australia is poised to enter the acquiring business. read more

• Ian Rogers

The federal government expects banks and payments providers to voluntarily end surcharging on debit payments by the end of 2025. read more

• Ian Rogers

Jerome Laxale, the Labor MP for Bennelong and a member of the House Economics Committee yesterday announced the beginning of a “campaign for fee-free digital payment reform.” read more

• Ian Rogers

Interchange fees in New Zealand may be slashed hard, if one of the preferred reform options outlined by the Commerce Commission ends up being adopted. read more

• Ian Rogers

Ellis Connolly, the Reserve Bank’s head of payments policy touched on every hot-button issue in online payments in a speech yesterday, one that foreshadows “a holistic review” on the Reserve Bank’s ap.. read more

• Ian Rogers

A clutch of opinionated voices have formed the Independent Payments Forum. They are Brad Kelly, Warwick Ponder, Russell Zimmerman, and Peter Drennan. A trio of influential small business associations.. read more

• George Lekakis

Two of Australia’s major banks are considering whether to offer discounted interchange fees for small businesses under a special program currently being rolled out by Visa. read more

• George Lekakis

Global card scheme giant Visa Inc has begun offering big incentives to some local small and medium sized retailers choosing to route their debit payments to its processing network. read more

• George Lekakis

Exponential market share gains in online payments processing made by domestic debit scheme Eftpos appear to have induced price responses from Visa and Mastercard. read more

• George Lekakis

The Australian stranglehold on leadership roles in Visa’s Asia Pacific business is set to continue following the elevation of a former Westpac and CBA executive to the top management post in the regio.. read more

• George Lekakis

Visa’s Australian arm has acquired a large portion of the liabilities of the global card company’s underperforming UK subsidiary known as Fraedom Holdings. read more

• Staff reporter

Might BNPL yet crush the credit card business, or has the physical card already been replaced and we haven’t really noticed?  read more

• George Lekakis

Mastercard is facing a drawn out legal battle over alleged anti-competitive pricing activity in the card payments market after the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission launched an civil acti.. read more

• George Lekakis

The industry debate between banks and small business groups over merchant fees is set to escalate after the Australian Banking Association accused independent research firm - CMSPI - of “inflating” th.. read more

• George Lekakis

Latitude Financial faces a public backlash after a controversial decision to abandon the rewards programs attached to several of its Visa and Mastercard products. read more

• George Lekakis

National Australia Bank is set to stir strategic tensions with global card schemes Visa and Mastercard after revealing it would pay $1.2 billion to buy Citi Australia’s consumer banking assets. read more

• John Kavanagh

The decline in credit card activity, which has prompted one commentator to describe the credit cards as a “legacy product”, has taken on serious proportions, with banks’ credit card balance falling by.. read more

• John Kavanagh

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has released 23 submissions to its review of the proposed amalgamation of BPAY, eftpos and NPPA, with the majority of them opposed to the merger. read more

• Ian Rogers

Red apple peel or a Woolworths discard? eftpos, thinking big, are retooling branding amd imagery and a chance to stans clear of the 3-wau payments scheme merger going nowhere. read more