Latest ANZ Banking Group News: Finextra Research

ANZ New Zealand trials mobile payments

ANZ New Zealand has begun a limited trial of mobile payments via NFC stickers and Blackberry-based micro-SD cards.

14 June 2011

ANZ and Visa trial contactless iPhone case

Australia's ANZ and Visa have teamed up to pilot an iPhone case that turns the handset into a contactless payments device.

15 March 2011

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CBA upgrade hits eftpos and ATM transactions

Commonwealth Bank of Australia has apologised to customers after scheduled system and security upgrades to its NetBank online service disrupted its nationwide payment network.

31 August 2010

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ANZ dumps M-Banking

Australia's ANZ is axing its M-Banking service next month in response to poor take up, according to ZDNet.

20 April 2010

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ANZ pilots predictive modelling of Eftpos sales data

Australia's ANZ has launched an online tool that uses aggregated data from merchant point-of-sale transactions to give business customers sales and behavioural insights.

16 April 2010

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ANZ and Sydney Uni launch two-in-one student ID and pre-paid card

ANZ has joined with the University of Sydney to launch a student ID card that doubles as a Visa reloadable pre-paid card.

02 February 2010

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ANZ targets teens with MySpace pre-paid card

Australia's ANZ Bank is targeting teenagers on social networking site MySpace with a pre-paid card that can be used for online purchases.

28 August 2009

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ANZ pays US Treasury $5.75 million to settle alleged sanctions-busting violations

ANZ has agreed to pay the US Treasury's Office of Foreign Asset Control (Ofac) US$5.75 million to settle alleged violations of US economic sanctions in trade finance transactions with counterparties in Sudan and Cuba.

27 August 2009

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Visa blinks first in NZ interchange case

Visa is to adjust its interchange rules in New Zealand and pay NZ$2.6 million to the country's competition authority to settle a two-year old civil suit brought against the card scheme. Anti-trust claims against MasterCard and six banks remain outstanding and will be heard at the High Court in Auckland in October this year.

13 August 2009

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Australian ATM skimming gang nets $500,000

Australian police are hunting thieves suspected of stealing over $500,000 from ANZ customer bank accounts using details obtained from a skimming device attached to a cash machine in Melbourne.

24 March 2009

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Social savings outfit SmartyPig targets Australia with ANZ deal

SmartyPig, a US online saving service that uses Web 2.0 technology to enable account holders to deposit money and receive funds from others, has recruited ANZ Bank to launch the system in Australia.

08 October 2008

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ANZ to launch pre-paid Visa payWave card

ANZ Bank will use the upcoming Tri Nations rugby union match between Australia and New Zealand to launch a reloadable pre-paid contactless Visa card.

21 July 2008

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