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    Smart payments

    April

    India is still as cash intensive economy.

    Payment provider Findi lands licence for branded ATMs in India

    Findi is backed by Wilson Asset Management and the Flannery family. The company expects to rebrand about 4000 ATMs which it already operates for the State Bank of India.

    • Primrose Riordan

    August 2019

    Afterpay shareholders have been rattled by news Visa may enter the buy-now-pay-later space

    Investors vie for $US3trn in payments boom

    Welcome to the world of digital payments, the epicentre of a transnational battle between financial services incumbents and swarms of technology companies, big and small.

    • James Eyers

    June 2019

    Street Talk.

    Sting in the tail at Afterpay as shares fall sharply

    There's time for one last twist at Afterpay before investors rule off their books to finish the financial year.

    • Sarah Thompson and Anthony Macdonald

    January 2017

    When India killed the 1,000-rupee note, Paytm hustled to gain market power

    The founder and chief executive of India's largest digital payments company has barely slept and is nursing a head cold.

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    • Saritha Rai

    December 2016

    Contactless issues still to be resolved

    The real battle at the moment is for access to the digital wallet.

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    • Mark Eggleton
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    China and India making huge leaps through technology

    Australian usage of smartphone wallets remains low compared to many countries in the region.

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    • Mark Eggleton

    Making the shopping experience more personal through smart platforms

    Emerging smart payments platforms and connected technologies will generate massive amounts of data that businesses can use to personalise customer relationships.

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    • Ian Grayson

    ABBA's Bjorn Ulvaeus urging Sweden to cashless future

    ABBA's Bjorn Ulvaeus has become one of the more prominent figures in Sweden espousing the benefits of a cashless future.

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    • Dan Ferguson

    Unprecedented information flow on consumers from Singles Day and Black Friday

    Online sales from Black Friday alone clicked over $US3 billion with over $US1 billion being generated from mobile devices.

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    • Mark Eggleton

    New systems transforming the payments sector

    There is a fundamental shift in the way monetary transactions are occurring between individuals and businesses.

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    • Ian Grayson

    Thieves do not always wear balaclavas

    One of the most daring heists in banking history took place recently in the UK and the robbers were not carrying guns.

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    • Mark Eggleton

    Facial recognition could be next major breakthrough in payments

    Rapid developments in facial recognition technology and the integration of chips into other devices may soon change the smart payment landscape.

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    • Ian Grayson