David Glance, University of Western Australia Australia’s banks have always enjoyed a lucrative income from credit card “interchange fees”, the charges that the banks levy on merchants’ sales. These fees amount to AU $2.5 billion... Read More
One of the great things about Apple Pay is that it ‘just works’ – wherever you can already make contactless payments, Apple Pay should work. Retailers and merchants don’t need to explicitly support Apple Pay.... Read More
18eftpos is finally available on Apple Pay in Australia, marking all four payment networks (Visa, Mastercard, American Express and eftpos) available for payments on iPhone and Apple Watch (and iPad and Mac for online/app payments).... Read More
NAB (or the National Australia Bank) has finally followed CommBank and introduced support for Apple Pay, along with their sister brand, UBank. Read More
Over a year since Apple launched ‘Apple Pay’ in the United States, and after adding the United Kingdom and then Canada.. it’s finally Australia’s turn to join in on the fun. But there’s a catch... Read More
Apple is set to enhance transit support in iOS 12.3, allowing an existing EMV (Amex, Visa or Mastercard) card to be used for 'Express Transit' Read More
Apple Pay offers a little known feature called 'Express Transit', allowing you to use Apple Pay at transport readers without needing to authenticate, and iOS 12.3 adds support for using payment cards. Read More
The Australian Competition & Consumer Commission (ACCC) has denied four of Australia’s banks an interim authorisation to act collectively against Apple and other third party wallet providers (Samsung and Google) in Australia. Read More
TriMet is the first transit provider to support Apple Wallet in North America with the 'Hop Fastpass', supporting concession fares, and longer term passes which aren't available with payment cards in Apple Pay. Read More
With Apple releasing iOS 8.1 overnight, the big question since the iPhone 6 was unveiled in September has been – will Apple Pay work in Australia? The answer is…. yes – if you have the... Read More