TheGuardian

JUNE 13, 2020

Now there’s a sequel, Market Meltdown II, in which a virus threatens to destroy the world economy before the suits return to slash interest rates and pump the system full of billions of dollars to save the world and send stock markets soaring back up. Related: 'It's not capitalism': why are global financial markets zooming up?

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 18, 2019

Citi Australia wants in on the burgeoning buy now, pay later market and is launching a new installment loan product with Kogan that will swap flat rates for interest rates, The Sydney Morning Herald reported on Sunday (Aug. Klarna is an Afterpay rival in the U.S.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

Australia has introduced tougher rules on banks that will go into effect as early as next month, including capping executives’ salaries, delaying their bonuses and driving them out of the industry if they are guilty of wrongdoing.

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TheGuardian

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Reserve bank’s outlook upbeat in final meeting of 2020 – though it laments slow wage growth Follow today’s Australia news live blog Australia’s banks remain well placed to deal with the economic shocks from the Covid pandemic, the reserve bank has found, even though its effects were likely to be worse than the global financial crisis.

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TheGuardian

MAY 25, 2022

Sign up to receive an email with the top stories from Guardian Australia every morning Continue reading. Sign up to receive an email with the top stories from Guardian Australia every morning Continue reading.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

ANZ, one of Australia’s largest banks, is set to doll out nearly $8 billion in refunds to small business customers using the FI’s commercial card products. 9) said the refunds will be paid out across 52,000 credit card accounts held by business customers as a result of failure to disclose fees and interest charges.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 17, 2020

Buy now, pay later (BNPL) providers are currently enjoying heightened interest from businesses, consumers and merchant partners, leading to market growth and new funding for many industry startups. Global retailers’ average mobile cart abandonment rate is approximately 86 percent, according to some studies.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 17, 2020

This has led to growing interest in buy now, pay later (BNPL) installment payment options for both debt-wary consumers as well as retailers looking to encourage online browsers to buy. Cash-strapped consumers in Australia have been turning to BNPL as an option for buying essential items during the pandemic.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 12, 2018

News this week surfaced that FAO Schwarz is planning to have a flagship store in New York City once again – this time at Rockefeller Center instead of the Fifth Avenue location where Tom Hanks tapped out “Chopsticks” on a dance-on piano in the 1988 movie “Big.”. In Other Brick and Mortar News. percent stake in Starbucks.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 18, 2019

Executives from the Australia and New Zealand banking group are looking with interest at the prospect of real-time international payments. Getting to that point will require Australia to be able to handle the domestic leg of the instant payment journey, however. Around the Faster Payments Wor ld.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 5, 2019

Listed on the Australian Stock Exchange, Credible’s platform is a clearinghouse and broker offering pre-qualified rates and options for the $1.6 Fox Corp, a spin-off of Twenty-First Century Fox, debuted on the Nasdaq and focuses on live cable sports and news. in cash per CHESS depository interest (CDI). trillion U.S.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 12, 2018

The financial institution did not mention news of Prospa’s IPO delay , announced just minutes before the company was scheduled to float on the Australian Securities Exchange, following criticism from regulators over its interest rates. However, Westpac is not the only traditional lender to nix a partnership with a FinTech.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 11, 2020

In this week's news, we saw two blockbuster IPOs, arguments and stalemates over a new stimulus bill, and new data on consumers' digital shopping trends. Fun, Cool And Otherwise Interesting. Pet Scams Rise As Holiday Buyers, At-Home Workers Seek New Pets. The Weekender is here to catch you up.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 20, 2016

The firm announced last week that it has set down roots in Sydney, following news earlier this year that it had also established a presence in San Francisco to focus on the U.S. As for a roadmap, the executive said that the likely near-term plan is to move into Australia and New Zealand first, with Hong Kong also on the horizon.

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PYMNTS

JULY 29, 2016

Those who favor this option would like to remove banks and large unaccountable corporations from being in control of the transactions so that there is more transparency in the creation of new money. However, although this could be good news for bitcoin, the markets are already moving to prevent or minimize any benefit to bitcoin.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 5, 2016

The world is preparing to enter into a new year, and small businesses are getting their New Year’s resolutions lists in order. and Australia and finds a few spots that could be cause for concern. PYMNTS checks up on the health of the small business in the U.S., Luckily, analysts expect that, with the conclusion of the U.S.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 29, 2018

Among the most recent: The World Bank said that it has launched the first bond on a blockchain with the Commonwealth Bank of Australia – the first bond to be created and transferred across seven investors in the blockchain, which include First State Super, Northern Trust and others. Ah, but amid the breathless coverage, a few wrinkles emerge.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 22, 2020

As infection and mortality rates rose and consumers became more concerned about their health and the health of others, it’s not hard to understand why their interest in contactless payments – tepid at best in a pre-pandemic world – skyrocketed overnight. Afterpay’s Banking Expansion . Things can change a lot in eight years.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

The Deutsche report cites data from Euromoney, which shows that as many as two thirds of executives have interest in adopting automated, round-the-clock currency conversion activities. Wissema told PYMNTS that prepaid cards can be an effective tool in risk management, as the cards pre-load multiple currencies at pre-determined exchange rates.

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PYMNTS

MAY 7, 2018

This modest debt could, if necessary, be paid off with one year’s net profits, providing a very effective buffer against the likely interest rate rise in the coming years. In Other Brick-And-Mortar News. Esprit is closing 67 stores in Australia and New Zealand — in other words, all of them.

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FICO

JUNE 13, 2019

The findings of FICO's second annual global survey on consumers’ automotive finance experience revealed two very different consumer markets in Australia and New Zealand. Those who plan to go with a bank or lending institution said, “I believe I get the best rate at the bank.”.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

Now, however, new details have surfaced as to why China’s banks were finally ready to jump on the Apple Pay bandwagon. According to a report in the Chinese news site Caixin , Apple cut a deal with Chinese banks to charge them less fees than what it charges banks in the U.S. China is the fifth country for Apple Pay, with its U.S.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 1, 2019

Additionally, the company has said there are no late fees, international fees or penalty interest rates. Apple also touted subscription options for cable, video gaming and news (on top of the music subscription service it already offers), though concrete details were somewhat slimmer than on the Apple Card.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

But that’s old news, since we already see it happening today. But even that’s old news, because we are seeing some of this happen today, too – and the consumer’s interest in and adoption of these new ways to shop and pay has accelerated rapidly. Which will become less frequent and involve trips to far fewer stores.

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TheGuardian

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Households diverting at least 30% of their disposable income to service a mortgage – a standard stress gauge – will account for 48.5% of total borrowers, according to the Australian National University’s Australian tax and welfare system model.

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PYMNTS

MAY 20, 2017

In fact, he isn’t even the first person to center his argument on avocado toast – the consumption of which, along with other fancy toasts, has apparently has risen to irritatingly endemic levels in Australia. So, eat that avocado toast, millennials, and enjoy it. may remain out of reach for all but the wealthiest of them.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

Apple had some good news this summer — they are still Apple after all — but even the good and mostly good news didn’t get the level of buzz it might once have when Apple was the undisputed king of new and innovative tech. But the big news was about subscriptions. Not a lot of great news.

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TheGuardian

MAY 1, 2023

The dynamic reflects that the rapid-fire rises in the official cash rate, used by the Reserve Bank to combat high inflation, created a highly profitable period for the country’s biggest lenders to charge borrowers more for loans than what they pay savers.

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TheGuardian

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

So it was interesting on Wednesday to hear a more candid reflection about what he went through in 2020. Australians saw this quality during the opening months of the coronavirus pandemic when he was communicating with the public reasonably regularly on television. Continue reading.

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DECEMBER 12, 2014

Based on the rate of cash-free transactions and the percent of the population that relies on a debit card, here is a look at the 10 countries leading the pack toward a nearly cashless economy. One interesting lesson to look at right now is the relationship between “tap and pay” and “app and pay”. On my last trip to Australia.

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TheGuardian

MARCH 13, 2023

The rapid shift in sentiment is good news for indebted homeowners grappling with rising mortgage repayments, although high inflation continues to pressure households. Sign up for Guardian Australia’s free morning and afternoon email newsletters for your daily news roundup Continue reading.

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TheGuardian

AUGUST 7, 2023

Mortgage rate analysis shows lenders are lifting rates for new borrowers at a faster pace than official cash rate increases. Fixed rates are also leaping higher. Sign up for Guardian Australia’s free morning and afternoon email newsletters for your daily news roundup Continue reading.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 3, 2019

An interest rate cut from Australia’s Reserve Bank has caused controversy in the small business banking sector, with Treasurer Josh Frydenberg praising small banks and criticizing larger ones for their response to the rate cut. According to SmartCompany reports Wednesday (Oct.

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TheGuardian

APRIL 21, 2023

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has opened its inquiry into retail deposits for submissions, and will assess the criteria banks use when making rate decisions. Sign up for Guardian Australia’s free morning and afternoon email newsletters for your daily news roundup Continue reading.

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PYMNTS

JULY 15, 2016

But we really do have bad news for Twitter: bitcoin P2P using the convenience of Twitter handles won’t help. Charge off rates at Lending Club are up 38 percent while charge-off rates for loans made by traditional banks, according to the Wall Street Journal , are at their lowest levels since the 1980s. Or maybe trade them.

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TheGuardian

MAY 1, 2022

Analysis: The Reserve Bank of Australia finds itself in a strategic and political bind.

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TheGuardian

MARCH 27, 2023

The question is whether that will grow into a threat to bank stability and the broader economy Follow our Australia news live blog for the latest updates Get our morning and afternoon news emails , free app or daily news podcast Australian banks are susceptible to a shock – but not necessarily for the reasons you think.

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