Australian property fund manager ISPT has deployed identity solutions provider HID’s mobile access through its trusted technology partner onUgo to enable employee badges in digital wallets at ISPT’s office in George Place, Sydney.

ConnectID, an initiative of Australian Payments Plus (AP+), has announced a partnership with Hold Access to accelerate the development of a digital wallet (WUNA) to be included within the trusted ConnectID network.

The number of digital wallet users globally will exceed 5.4 billion in 2028, rising from 3.7 billion in 2023, accounting 46% growth reflecting user transition towards financial services.

Digital wallet users will exceed 5.2 billion globally in 2026, up from 3.4 billion in 2022, accounting for a 53% increase, according to market research firm Juniper Research.

Australia’s home-grown digital wallet and payments app is called Beem It, and not only is it issued by Digital Wallet Pty Ltd, which is part of the eftpos group, it is launching "a powerful new rewards feature to empower small businesses to create bespoke rewards and offers" in the first quarter of 2022.

GUEST OPINION by Ashley Diffey, Head of APAC and Japan at Ping Identity: When information technology was first embraced by businesses, it tended to be in a very centralised form. Data centres held core applications and databases while users gained access through authorised devices and network links.

Although it's said that cash is king, a new FIS report says "the sun is officially setting on the use of cash for retail payments in Australia, with the economy projected to be 98% cashless by 2024.

With Samsung recently announcing Heritage Bank was the first to deliver eftpos transactions with Samsung Pay in Australia, it was time to talk with Samsung Australia's Head of Services, Mark Hodgson, to learn more.

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Samsung has nabbed victory by nabbing major Aussie bank NAB in its quest to see Australia's four big banks all offering access to Samsung Pay, as ever more consumers make payments via mobile devices.

CommBank has added Amex to its Android app and more, the day after Amex cards issued by Amex went live on Apple Pay in Australia.

PayPal has extended its instant checkout service One Touch to merchants using the Bigcommerce e commerce platform.

Almost a third of Australian businesses say electronic (non-card) payments are critical to them, according to a new survey.

Apple is a secretive company, but in the modern world it’s hard to keep thing under wraps. We pretty well knew what Apple was going to announce.

A day after MasterCard announced that Australia would be the first country in the world to use its MasterPass digital wallet, rival Visa announced a deal with Samsung to accelerate the use of Samsung smartphones as mobile payment devices.

MasterCard has announced Australia will be the first country in the world to use its MasterPass digital wallet technology. It will launch next month.

PayPal is about to eat even more of the banks' lunch with the release of a free app and dongle that turns a smartphone into an Eftpos device.

Cloud computing vendors may still have a tough sell-job ahead of them to woo Australian consumers to store data on the internet rather than in their own homes. And digital wallet spruikers face a similar marketing challenge.