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Hospitality technology specialist me&u has hired three finance and sales leaders.

The Australian Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre (AUSTRAC) has been awarded the Best Collaboration of the Year Award by the International Compliance Association (ICA).

The European Union has taken aim at Apple for its refusal to open its mobile payment system to its rivals, accusing the company of restricting access to the technology used for mobile wallets.

Australia’s small businesses are investing in their recovery, with the Commonwealth Bank saying that financing for equipment and machinery across the sector is up 17% so far this financial year, compared with the same period last year - and investing in IT is also on the investment lists for SMEs.

Commonwealth Bank is partnering with the Australian Business Forum (ABF) to present the inaugural SmallBiz-Week in Melbourne from 17-19 May 2022.

Workforce intelligence platform provider Reejig has appointed Jonathan Reyes to the role of vice president for North America.

Major Australian bank Westpac has appointed Damien MacRae to the role of CEO of Westpac Banking as a Service.

Fintech MonetaGo has appointed Mark Borton to the newly created role of ANZ managing director.

GUEST RESEARCH: Strategic research and consulting agency, Fifth Dimension, has released the results of its worldwide research into sustainability and what consumers want governments and companies to do about it.

Great Southern Bank (formerly CUA) has appointed Tom Richardson to the role of CIO.

GUEST OPINION: Australia is progressing steadily with an open banking rollout. The Big Four banks – CBA, Westpac, ANZ and National Australia Bank – introduced open banking in July 2021, and other banks and financial services are expected to follow in 2022. According to many fintechs, however, the introduction is going slower than expected, and they are pushing financial markets to open their banking services online by signing additional data holders.

The National Australia Bank has topped the 2021 Forrester customer experience index which benchmarks the quality of customer experience of five banks in Australia.

The Commonwealth Bank has formed an exclusive partnership and taken a minority stake in global Artificial Intelligence (AI) provider H2O.

The Commonwealth Bank has joined with cryptocurrency exchange Gemini and blockchain analysis firm Chainanalysis to offer customers the ability to buy, sell and and hold cryptocurrency assets.

A parliamentary panel has delivered a riposte to Commonwealth Bank chief executive Matt Comyn who has been pushing for the regulation of Apple Pay, saying it is not convinced that there is any need for regulatory intervention at this time.

Australia’s economy could be $18 billion larger and more than 42,000 extra full-time jobs could be created over the next decade if the country adopts a hybrid working future.

Personal services businesses, such as hairdressers and beauty salons, in Victoria welcomed a 481 per cent increase in sales in their first weekend post-lockdown compared with the previous weekend, according to Commonwealth Bank merchant terminal data.

Australian Telco, More, today unveiled a consumer facing re-brand to align with its increased focus beyond the company’s traditional B2B customer base into the B2C market.

Debit card operator eftpos says several big name banks, retailers and fintechs are supporting the rollout of the eQR QR payments platform.

GUEST INTERVIEW: Eftpos has announced that some of Australia's most iconic banks, retailers and FinTechs – CommBank, NAB, Coles, Woolworths, Azupay, Beem It and Merchant Warrior – are partnering with eftpos to support the rollout of its new QR payments platform, eQR.