Australian Payments Network – APCA Blog http://blog.apca.com.au APCA Views & News Wed, 06 Dec 2017 02:00:22 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.2 How Australians Make and Take Payments http://blog.apca.com.au/australians-make-take-payments/ Wed, 20 Sep 2017 06:16:49 +0000 http://blog.apca.com.au/?p=4368 The RBA recently published its 2016 Consumer Payments Survey.  Key findings were that survey participants made 37% of their payments with cash (compared to 69% in 2007) and 52% of their payments with a card (compared to 26% in 2007).  This…

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]]> Australia’s new $10 banknote http://blog.apca.com.au/australias-new-10-banknote/ Tue, 19 Sep 2017 22:00:07 +0000 http://blog.apca.com.au/?p=4353 On 20 September 2017, the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) released the second banknote in the Next Generation Banknote (NGB) program. We are pleased to be coordinating industry efforts to transition from old notes, released nearly 20 years ago, to…

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]]> Judging the Australian Payments Council Hackathon – eftpos http://blog.apca.com.au/judging-australian-payments-council-hackathon-eftpos/ Fri, 11 Aug 2017 04:40:12 +0000 http://blog.apca.com.au/?p=4259 The inaugural Australian Payments Council hackathon is upon us, beginning tonight! We managed to sneak in a quick chat ahead of the event with Paul Jennings, CTO of eftpos, who will be one of our judges on Sunday. What sparked…

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