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The National Australia Bank (NAB) has signed agreements with two global financial institutions — Israel’s Bank Leumi and the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC) — to form an international banking innovation alliance.

Customers of the National Australia Bank will have instant use of new, approved personal Visa credit cards, even before they receive their “physical” card, with the bank’s new mobile banking app to be released in coming weeks.

Australian businesses say the most significant barrier to innovation and business change is simply not having enough time to turn their ideas into reality, according to a new study revealing that traditional innovation measures, such as R&D and patents, had been growing solidly since 1990 but have flatlined since the end of the mining boom.

Business conditions in the small business sector are at their highest level in six years with trading and profitability “surging ahead”, reaching levels not seen since 2009, according to the latest National Australia Bank quarterly SME Index.

Software platform company, IODM, debuted on the ASX on Monday as it prepares for what it says is an "aggressive" strategy for significantly increasing sales and marketing capabilities in the Australian market.

Change management and better ways for organisations to navigate that change will be on the agenda for discussion at the next Computing Technology Industry Association (CompTIA) channel community meeting in Sydney later this month.

Melbourne-based payments technology start-up Airwallex has boosted its coffers with US$3 million raised through a pre-series A investment round and will use the funds to strengthen its Melbourne and Chinese development teams and accelerate research and development of its technology.

National Australia Bank has launched a new product that allows customers to keep using their Visa accounts even if their debit or credit card has been stolen or lost.

Telstra and the National Australia Bank (NAB) have joined forces to create a digital business marketplace — dubbed Proquo — designed to provide small businesses with an online platform where they can network, trade or swap services with each other.

Two of Australia’s major banks — National Australia and Westpac — and Qantas have led investment in data exchange platform Data Republic in the company’s first major funding round.

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

The National Australia Bank has unveiled its latest customer innovations which are being delivered through its digital hub, NAB Labs.

UBank - ‘Just The Bank You Need’ - will be telling customers to borrow less money, and encouraging users to be more mobile-banking focused, including applying for home loans via mobile or tablet.

The National Australia Bank (NAB) has launched its new mobile payment service – NAB Pay - backed by Visa, making it the first bank to use Visa’s Tokenisation Service as the mobile security platform.

The future, or lack of it, for the Dick Smith stores may become clearer later this week as administrators look at options for the group ahead of a creditors meeting scheduled for Thursday.

Creditors, shareholders, suppliers and customers of electronics retailer Dick Smith have been left in limbo as they wait to see what is to happen to the company’s hundreds of stores throughout Australia and New Zealand after the business was placed in voluntary administration.

Data centre operator NextDC is seeking to raise at least A$70 million to fund development of a new Brisbane data centre.

Storage vendor Tintri has made four senior sales and systems engineering appointments.

National Australia Bank has launched a digital advice platform which it says provides personalised, tailored financial advice to customers through internet banking.

Cloud accounting software company Xero has established integration agreements with financial services providers to facilitate access to services and loans for small businesses.