CFO Dive

JANUARY 22, 2024

Europe, Australia and Singapore as it also opens new markets in regions such as Latin America and Southeast Asia. The startup is looking to expand in the U.S.,

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

The race to develop central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) is underway, but it seems the Reserve Bank of Australia may not be in the running. 17), Australia’s central bank has viewed the issuance of such digital coinage with caution, and even a bit of skepticism. As reported by Cointelegraph Thursday (Sept.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Australia continues to make progress toward its eInvoice standardization initiative and has chosen its accredited partners to provide approved eInvoice services. Last month, MassageXchange announced it had become the first PEPPOL-certified eInvoicing access point service provider in Australia and New Zealand.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 19, 2021

In an effort to simplify B2B payments for Australia, FinTech service provider WEX is teaming with digital business management technology company MYOB. million companies in New Zealand and Australia. Vendors also do not have to make modifications in the way they receive payments.

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OCTOBER 22, 2018

Australia and New Zealand are planning to create trans-Tasman standards for electronic invoicing in an effort to save $30 billion over 10 years. In addition, the Treasury paper supports the creation of “an industry-led, not-for-profit body to oversee eInvoicing in Australia and New Zealand. “Research shows it costs $30.87

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 11, 2019

The pilot will roll out in Australia with Australia Post and Deakin University. Mastercard is launching a new digital resource that has the potential to instantly authenticate someone’s identity in a secure manner, the company said in a press release on Wednesday (Dec.

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Future CFO

OCTOBER 10, 2021

The majority of Hong Kong accountants — at 85% — are committed to achieving net zero , said CPA Australia recently when releasing results of a survey of nearly 300 accounting and financial professionals across various industries in the city. Divisional President of CPA Australia 2021 in Greater China. Survey highlights.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 27, 2019

based payments company Worldpay said it will expand to Australia and New Zealand in an effort to take on more established payments services like Visa, Mastercard and American Express, according to report by Reuters. Worldpay will set its sights on the online gaming, digital content, online retail and travel industries.

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Treasury Talent

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

In its half-yearly financial results, Australian FinTech firm Afterpay Limited reported more customers in the United States than in Australia. million active customers in Australia and New Zealand, with 0.6 It also had 35,500 active merchants in Australia and New Zealand, which marked a 63 percent rise from the same time last year.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 8, 2019

MessageXchange has announced that it is the first PEPPOL-certified eInvoicing Access Point service provider in Australia and New Zealand. Earlier this year, Australia and New Zealand announced that they were both adopting the Pan-European Public Procurement On-Line (PEPPOL) interoperability framework for eInvoicing.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

In an expansion of its effort to “make digital platforms fairer for consumers and developers,” Epic Games took legal action against Apple in Australia, according to a statement posted on Wednesday (Nov. Epic says it is not looking for damages from the tech company in the United States or Australia. 18) Sydney time.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 3, 2020

Gosai, in the release, is quoted as saying that they are “extremely excited to now be regulated and have the appropriate authorisations to move forward with our plans and deliver Infinity to consumers across Australia.”

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 7, 2020

Afterpay and the Red Cross are looking for money donations to help Australia amid the bushfire crisis currently ravaging the country. Based in Australia, Afterpay aims to transform the way people pay for goods and services by allowing customers to pay in multiple installments. Afterpay itself is donating $200,000 AUD ($138,750.86

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

While the business email compromise (BEC) scam is a global pain point for businesses, this week's B2B Data Digest looks at the latest figures in B2B payments fraud and finds BEC heating up in one particular region: Australia and New Zealand.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 11, 2018

What’s more, the ACCC said in the report that it was concerned that the technology companies are hurting media companies in Australia and creating so-called “filter bubbles” by giving more clout to news sources that aren’t as reliable as traditional media.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 2, 2020

Beginning vaccine candidate testing at CSIRO is a critical milestone in the fight against COVID-19, made possible by collaboration both within Australia and across the globe,” CSIRO Chief Executive Dr Larry Marshall said in a statement. “We The candidates were identified by CEPI in consultation with the World Health Organization.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 17, 2019

Apple Pay, in a move that will let users in Australia skip credit card fees at places that support EFTPOS (electronic funds transfer), now has support for dual-network debit cards, according to reports. EFTPOS isn’t available for transactions outside Australia, or Apple Pay on the internet.

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CFO Dive

APRIL 25, 2023

The Australia-based tech company is refreshing its widely-used workplace collaboration tech tools Confluence and Jira and adjusting to its customers' changing needs amid the tech downturn.

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AUGUST 13, 2019

PayPal Australia’s small business lending operations have reached a new milestone, facilitating $500 million in working capital loans, reports in Finder said on Monday (Aug. PayPal Working Capital is looking to fill the small business lending gap in Australia, according to Andrew Baines, the firm’s general manager in Australia.

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PYMNTS

MAY 3, 2020

and Australia broke lockdown rules, fatigued by the long time spent indoors. In Australia, travel dropped 80 percent as the pandemic escalated, but by late April as the rates of new cases slowed, the rates of travel began to creep back to normal.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 24, 2018

Australia is the next jurisdiction to embrace payments speed, with the country preparing for the rollout of its New Payments Platform (NPP), a real-time payments infrastructure, in the coming months. Reports in OpenGov said Tuesday (Jan.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 9, 2020

Nium , a financial technology platform, has become a Visa issuer in Australia as part of its membership in Visa’s FinTech Fast Track program. Singapore-based Nium said that with this business arrangement, it will be able to shorten the time for issuing a Visa card to just four to six weeks.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Australia will take a name-and-shame approach to combatting the issue of late payments to B2B suppliers, according to Smart Company reports Monday (November 12). The Business Council of Australia has already introduced its own code of conduct for the private sector, a voluntary initiative for businesses to promise to pay on time.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

and Australia helped depress Q3 earnings revenue for Cardtronics , the world’s largest owner of ATMs. and Australia. Meanwhile in Australia, the balance seems to be tilting away from cash, with contactless card-based payments powering close to a third of point-of-sale (POS) transactions, according to PYMNTS research.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

San Francisco-based DoorDash is moving beyond North America and is now taking orders in Melbourne, Australia, taking on UberEats, Menulog and Deliveroo, Reuters reported on Wednesday (Sept. million people, and Australia is the world’s 14th biggest economy. million people, and Australia is the world’s 14th biggest economy.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 24, 2019

Australia is including an additional $390 million in its new budget to boost its financial regulation sector, according to Reuters. Commonwealth Bank of Australia also charged some of its client accounts even after customers died, the report stated.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

Currently, Australia’s top four banks , Commonwealth Bank, Westpac Bank, Australia and New Zealand Banking Group and National Australia Bank, secure about 80 percent of their small business financing by property. Reports in Reuters said Wednesday (November 14) that the government will purchase up to $1.44

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 1, 2018

Business lending in Australia probably won’t face tougher loan regulation when it comes to small business loans. The banking and financial services Australia royal commission released its interim report late last week, covering consumer lending, financial planning, business lending, farm finance and Indigenous finance.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 21, 2020

Those countries include Australia, Canada and the U.K. Amazon has filed for a trademark for Amazon Pharmacy in several countries, according to a report by CNBC. The trademarks illustrate how Amazon could potentially move its nascent online pharmacy business overseas, despite the numerous challenges it faces in the U.S.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 24, 2020

The Australian Securities & Investment Commission (ASIC) has reported an increase in the volume of investment scam reports by investors and consumers in Australia amid the pandemic, according to a press release.

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PYMNTS

JULY 1, 2019

In response to plans by regulators to require banks to conduct more detailed credit checks in lieu of depending upon indices, banks in Australia are pushing back. Banks in Australia depend heavily on an index that estimates an average Australian’s minimum living expenses based on levels of income.

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CFO News

OCTOBER 30, 2023

The talks' collapse will be a major disappointment to the EU, which is seeking to push through ambitious free trade agreements with major world markets, including India and the Latin American nations in the Mercosur bloc.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Amazon Australia is partnering with buy now, pay later (BNPL) startup Zip Co, Reuters reported on Wednesday (Nov. The popularity of the BNPL space, however, has prompted the Reserve Bank of Australia and other regulators to closely examine the sector. News of the arrangement triggered a 24.1 million of Zip’s shares at a fixed price.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) Philip Lowe told reporters that he wanted more retailers to take advantage of EFTPOS, which is owned by financial institutions (FIs) that are local to Australia. Visa and Mastercard, as well as the four major banks, control all of the card payments in the country.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 30, 2018

The Reserve Bank of Australia had an outage Thursday (Aug. According to Reuters , the Reserve Bank of Australia tweeted that maintenance of its “fire control systems caused an interruption of power to the bank’s main data center” and that it was “re-establishing full services.”

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 25, 2021

Google Raises Specter of Making Search Inaccessible in Australia. Last week, Google put forward the possibility that it would make its search engine inaccessible in Australia in the event that the government proceeds with proposals to force Big Tech to provide payment for news, CBC reported. "If

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