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Melbourne-based consumer finance business Latituide Financial Services has launched its fifth mobile payment platform this year, with the launch of Fitbit Pay and Garmin Pay.

The number of mobile users adopting NFC ticketing will exceed 375 million by 2022, up from an estimated 122 million globally in 2017, according to a new report from Juniper Research.

I noticed yesterday on the home page of Bendigo Bank that Apple Pay had finally arrived, so I set it up, which was effortless, and I've been using it via Apple Watch since!

If you're an iPhone and Apple Watch owning Woolworths customer, you can add your Woolworths Rewards loyalty card into the Apple Wallet app on both devices, from today, and even use Apple Pay.

Westpac's PayWear delivers contactless microchip payments from your account, using a silicone wristband or a ‘keeper’ device that easily attaches to an existing watch or fitness band.

With eftpos the most widely used debit card system in Australia, ANZ Access customers can now CHQ and SAV their transactions using iPhones, Apple Watch and Apple Pay.

Issued by Macquarie Bank, upmarket retailer Myer lets its customers link its new credit card to Apple Pay and Android Pay, and is reported as the first retailer to do so.

With Mexican eatery Guzman y Gomez one of the first Braintree merchants to integrate Apple Pay in Australia, it surely won’t be the last. Olé!

Fintech analyst Juniper Research claims that Apple Pay customers will reach about 86 million this year, nearly doubling from a figure of 45 million in 2016.

Amazon Cash is targeted at an entirely different market from the other digital pay services offered by technology companies and what remained to be seen was whether it could attract any additional market share by streamlining this process, a senior official of an American payment processing company says.

The Australian Consumer and Competition Commission has denied four Australian banks permission to collectively bargain with Apple and collectively boycott Apple Pay.

A group of Australian banks, which have applied to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission for leave to jointly talk to Apple about gaining access to Apple Pay and the near field communication (NFC) on iPhones, have modified their demands, stating that they only want open access to the NFC function.

Apple sold a record 78.3 million iPhones during the first quarter of fiscal 2017 which ended on 31 December 2016, the company announced on Tuesday, US time.

Financial services company FlexiGroup announced on Monday that customers of its subsidiary cards brands, Lombard Finance and Once Credit, would now be able to use Apple Pay.

The Commonwealth Bank has attempted, on its own, to break the impasse with Apple over Apple Pay, by offering to pay the tech firm for use of its payment infrastructure.

Users of the accounting software Xero will now have access to Apple Pay, with the service being made available through the online payments solution Stripe.

Tasmanian banking group, MyState Bank, has launched a new Internet banking platform and mobile banking apps in another step in the bank’s ongoing digital transformation.

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission is leaning towards denying a request from a number of banks to collectively bargain with Apple over Apple Pay.

ANZ has extended its tie-up with Android Pay to its Mastercard customers from today.

ANZ Bank is the first Australian bank to participate in the Apple Pay digital wallet.