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New EFTPOS deal to cost Australian small businesses $200million a year in higher bank fees

Australia’s giant retailers Woolworths and the Wesfarmers-owned Coles are the big winners from a new deal on EFTPOS fees announced this week by EFTPOS Australia Limited (EPAL). So too are the big fast-food chains like McDonalds, and the big petrol retailers – Caltex, BP and Shell. But more than half a million Australian businesses can

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Transaction Network Services – Australia’s biggest online payment gateway?

They may be one of the world’s largest payment technology providers, but most Australian businesses wouldn’t have even heard of them. They’re US company – Transaction Network Services (TNS) – and next time you buy an Australian airline ticket chances are you’ll be using their technology. “Globally, we carry over 13 billion transactions per annum”

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ANZ Bank 3 hour system-outage hits online merchants hardest

Both online and offline businesses right across Australia on Tuesday 11th August  were hit by a complete failure of the ANZ bank’s card processing system.

ANZ spokesman, Paul Edwards, said that the outage affected both ATM’s and EFTPOS terminals. “We had a technical issue that affected both our ATM’s and ANZ supplied EFTPOS terminals. It

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Both Uighurs and Chinese attacking Film Festival site

Chinese nationalists are undoubtedly responsible for most of the online attacks against the Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) online ticketing system but pro Uighur groups are also involved. So says Rob Raulings, a director of Melbourne based eFirst.com.au, developers of the online ticketing system and associated online payments gateway at the MIFF web-site. The MIFF

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Intabill rises again as Payovation

Failed Brisbane based payments business – Intabill – appears to have risen from the dead, under a new name, and at a new web-site at www.Payovation.com. But Intabill’s creditors, including high-profile gaming sites like Pokerstars.net, are unlikely to get any joy from the miraculous news. Its also doubtful whether Payovation Pty Ltd will be helping

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