News

12 November, 2009

Distra will be sponsoring the Online Banking Review event, 'The Future of Money', with Distra's CEO, Mike Aston speaking on 'The Future of Payments Panel', in Sydney, 3rd December 2009. Read more

10 November, 2009

Distra has today announced that PayFair, the first Single Euro Payment Area (SEPA) compliant payment card for European consumers, merchants and banks, has gone live on the Distra Universal Switch. Read more

29 September, 2009

At Sibos 2009, Distra's CEO, Mike Aston spoke to the Investor Services Journal about the transforming payments landscape, the challenges the market faces and Distra's response to meet the market demands- with the Distra Universal Switch. Read more

14 September, 2009

Distra enables payments convergence with Universal Switch. New Universal Switch Enables Retail and Wholesale Payments Convergence in Real-Time Read more

07 September, 2009

Distra, an Australian organisation at the heart of payments transformation, has appointed Metia, a global digital marketing firm, as its transatlantic agency of record. Metia will develop and implement a strategic press and analyst relations (PR and AR) programme, utilising online and offline tools, aimed at raising awareness of Distra’s approach to payments amongst UK and US industry influencers. Read more

03 September, 2009

National Australia Bank and Commonwealth Bank are considered to be among the safest banks in the world, but the lenders have yet to crack the top ten in the latest assessment of risk in the global banking industry. Read more

02 September, 2009

National Australia Bank and credit union automatic teller machine administrator Cuscal have joined their ATM networks after receiving interim approval from the competition regulator. Read more

28 August, 2009

Distra will again be exhibiting at Sibos 2009, September 14-18 in Hong Kong. See a demonstration of the Distra technology that is enabling tier 1 banks and other processors to safely migrate down the path to consolidation, convergence and real time payments and payments information. Read more

14 August, 2009

Distra and the Online Banking Review recently hosted a roundtable to promote retail payments customer, Payfair, and the disruptive Payfair concept- the new European payment scheme that has captured banks and retailers attention. Read more

15 July, 2009

NAB and Cuscal join forces to deliver customers one of the largest ATM networks in Australia. Read more