Industry Trends

17 December, 2007

There are major technology challenges on the horizon as institutions have to come to some sort of decision about their legacy systems... Read more

03 December, 2007

Seated alphabetically in a huge square, delegates at last week’s Reserve Bank of Australia/Melbourne Business School payments conference appeared to be participating in some grand peace plan... Read more

03 December, 2007

National Australia Bank will replace its 1600-strong ATM network by next September, transforming the machines from cash outlets to full service channels with the potential to sell insurance, trade shares and respond to customer enquiries... Read more

19 November, 2007

As the business world increasingly operates in real time, consumers expect the same kind of fast, convenient services from their financial institutions that they receive from retailers. In the U.K., the response to this demand is the Faster Payments initiative... Read more

30 October, 2007

Mercator Advisory Group has announced a new report titled "Decoupled Debit - Let's Take a Closer Look" that the company says "evaluates the recent emergence of this new and possibly disruptive technology in the financial services industry, decoupled debit... Read more

03 September, 2007

As it's meeting on 27 August 2007, the Payments System Board considered an industry-developed proposal for reform of the ATM system in Australia. Read more

02 July, 2007

London, 2 July 2007. Today marks the completion of the merger of two market leaders, Voca and LINK... www.vocalink.com Read more

01 June, 2007

The US health care payment system, which processes $1.9 trillion a year, is ripe for transformation... Read more

03 May, 2007

The combined group will form one of the leading payments processors in Europe... Read more

03 April, 2007

National Australia Bank has signed up to the federal government's scheme to process Medicare refunds via the Eftpos network... Read more