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ANZ e-statements back online, BPAY View set for re-design.

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After a security scare saw the ANZ take its credit-card statements offline in December last year, the service is now, for most customers back online. But the incident has forced a re-vamp of the design of BPAY View, and raised some interesting questions about both the status and future

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NAB gives up on BPAY’s Paypal killer – project MAMBO

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In a remarkable and unusual fit of openness and transparency, the National Australia Bank (NAB) has announced it is giving up on BPAY’s project to develop a Paypal competitor, known as MAMBO (Me and My Bank Online). In a prepared media statement, the NAB said it could no longer see value for

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Online merchants unlikely to escape impact of EFTPOS changes

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Project MAMBO revived to meet PayPal online payments competition

Australia’s big banks are once again funding a project to facilitate an indigenous online payment system.  They’ve told the Reserve Bank of Australia that the project, known as MAMBO (Me and My Bank Online) will be completed by the end of 2011. News of the resuscitation of Project MAMBO emerged in the Annual Report of

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Jetstar’s online payments chief explains why POLi, but no PayPal or Bpay.

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Jetstar is one of Australia’s biggest ecommerce businesses. Of the almost one million bookings it handles each month, some seventy per cent, worth hundreds of millions of dollars, are processed online. So when Jetstar recently announced it now offers POLi to its customers as a

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