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Identity and fraud prevention platform provider FrankieOne has closed its $20 million Series A funding round, led by AirTree Ventures and Greycroft.

The European Union is set to file an anti-trust suit against Apple over the NFC chip technology it uses for tap-and-go payments, a report claims.

Changes to Westpac Group's digital gambling block feature mean more customers can restrict their spending on gambling.

Payments technology company mx51 has raised $25 million in a Series A round led by Acorn Capital, Artesian, Commencer Capital and Mastercard. 

Decision-making platform provider Board International has made four senior appointments.

Westpac has announced new measures intended to reduce the use of online and mobile banking to send abusive messages.

Scammers are taking advantage of the busy shopping season and trying to relieve customers of Westpac of some of their earnings, setting up a site that looks very much like the real thing to try and lure customers into entering their credentials.

The Westpac Group, one of Australia's big four banks, has announced Afterpay as its first partner on its new digital banking platform.

Network and application performance vendor Riverbed has promoted John Milionis to the role of head of channel for the APJ region.

Banking group Westpac is collaborating with NBN Co and Cisco to rollout new technology in all its branches across Australia, as part of an infrastructure transformation program designed to deliver efficiencies and improve employee and customer experience.

RSP Aussie Broadband has appointed a new chair and two replacement directors.

Optus says it has strengthened its executive leadership team with the appointment of three senior executives to the team, including Kate Aitken who will join the telco in August to take up the role of Vice President, Human Resources.

The ACCC has formally released the Competition and Consumer (Consumer Data Right) Rules, which it says is is a “key development” in progressing the Consumer Data Right in banking.

Big four bank Westpac will finally catch up with the rest of the industry, making a commitment on Thursday to deliver Apple Pay for its customers by June next year.

Australian bank Westpac and automated debtor management and fee finance solutions provider FeeSynergy have collaborated to offer an integrated digital payment solution designed for the accounting industry.

A surprisingly high proportion of MIT's Center for Information Systems Research sponsors are Australian organisations.

A Telstra outage hits ATMs and eftpos machines around the country on Thursday, with the problems beginning at about 3pm.

Westpac and PoS provider Kounta have partnered to connect the former's Presto Smart payment terminal to the latter's PoS system using cloud-based technology.

Three of Australia's big four banks have joined IBM and the Scentre Group - which looks after Westfield's properties - to launch a digital platform named Lygon which uses blockchain technology to manage bank guarantees that are often needed to lease a retail properly.

The banking industry is increasingly becoming a favourite among cyber criminals, according to security vendor MailGuard, which has detected a new phishing email scam purporting to be from Westpac.