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An Aussie start-up with a new take on online mortgage brokerage is betting a good number of people will. Flongle encourages consumers to carefully map out their ideal mortgage for a new property or re...
If you want a new debit or credit card in Australia, you're getting PayWave or PayPass - there's no choice. And Australian police forces, and at least some consumers, don't like it. Police are bemoan...
There's been a lot of hype and controversy about Bitcoin. Exchanges have bloomed, been taken down, been hacked and evolved. Regulators are running this way and that. The tech and mainstream media has ...
The answer seems to depend on where in the world you are, and who's backing these new entrants. News today out of Australia and China highlights two possible approaches. In Australia, one of the promi...
I came across an interesting blog post recently about how the untrained human brain is disadvantaged when it comes to recognising or thinking about big numbers. These limitations, and reliance on g...
With PayPal and others pushing the "it's time for wearable payments line", more handset payment developments and Visa and MasterCard trumpeting the increasing penetration of their respective...
The International Finance Corporation (IFC) estimates that microfinance has reached some 130 million people worldwide in the last 15 years. This is impressive growth, certainly, and has no doubt cont...
I can't say I was too surprised to see that Swedbank has scrapped its QR-code payment initiative. While the scanning of a QR-code could feasibly be used to trigger any function or transaction that ca...
Well, it looks like I'll finally have to remember the PIN on my infrequently used credit card. Visa and Mastercard have got their way after lobbying regulators so come August 1, POS terminals will on...
Referencing the move by Barclays in the UK to introduce mobile cheque imaging in response to the reversal of banking industry plans to kill off cheques by 2018, APCA CEO Chris Hamilton recently said ...
Prompted by this article reviewing games created by central banks that I found in Finextra's always excellent Best of the Web section, I've recently been catching up on what's happening more broadly ...
Catching up on online reading after some self imposed offline holiday time I was just reading about the latest US retailer to be plundered for customer personal and card data. For those who also misse...