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Australian consumers are overwhelmingly in favour of small businesses being given the ability to choose the cheapest option to process debit card payments through Least Cost Routing (LCR), according to new research by eftpos.

The total value of transactions processed by POS terminals will exceed US$17.3 trillion in 2026, from US$14.8 trillion in 2021- a growth of 28%, according to a new global report.

Data integration and data integrity vendor Talend is set to be acquired by private equity investment firm Thoma Bravo for US$2.4 billion.

Australians are showing a greater preference for contactless payments during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to debit card provider eftpos which is claiming 400% growth of its mobile payments business.

Digital global domestic money transaction values are exploding around the world, with a new market report forecasting the value of transactions will exceed US$3.5 trillion by 2024 - up from US$1.8 trillion in 2019.

Big data analytics company Splunk’s agreement to acquire SaaS real-time monitoring and metrics for cloud infrastructure vendor SignalFx puts the company in a position as a leader in monitoring and observability at massive scale, according to Splunk president and CEO Doug Merritt.

Australians prefer to use cash, rather than banking or bill-splitting apps, when they share a meal or shout their friends a drink at the pub, a survey carried out by Bankwest claims.

A report states an Australian man trying to pay with cash at the Apple Store in the Sydney suburb of Chatswood was pushed to pay with Apple Pay, resulting in the man buying at a different store instead.

A survey of mobile payments by research service Venture Insights indicates that it will take much more than two decades for Australia to become a cashless society.

Since 2011, Malaysian scammers have run a very sophisticated fake "complimentary lottery" scratch ticket scam, with prizes of hundreds of thousands of US dollars and consumer electronics.

Is MasterCard desperate for Australians to give up cash? Cash may ‘no longer be King’ according to a MasterCard survey, but is that just a credit card company’s dream scenario?

Westpac-owned St.George Bank is the latest to introduce a cardless cash service from ATMs for those who have forgotten their ATM cards just by using your smartphone.

With eBay having placed cheeky ads telling users to browse at malls like Westfield, but then buy on eBay, the auction house is now telling users to sell unwanted gifts on eBay, rather than fighting the post-Christmas sales crowds to take them back to the stores eBay recommended not to buy from in the first place.