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• Alipay pilots ‘Sydney City Card’ for Chinese tourists

  ​Payments giant Alipay is piloting a ‘Sydney City Card’ aimed at visiting Chinese tourists.

• NAB to roll out support for Alipay

  NAB has become the first of Australia’s big four banks to support the Alibaba Group-backed Alipay mobile payment platform.

• Jack Dorsey’s Square opens engineering hub in Melbourne

  ​Merchant services, point-of-sale and mobile payments firm Square is expanding its Australian operation, by launching the company’s first engineering hub outside of North America in Melbourne.

• Samsung Pay connects Four

  Samsung Pay can now be used by NAB customers, making the smartphone mobile wallet the first to be compatible with all of the Big Four Australian banks.

• Cabcharge to accept Alipay to tap lucrative Chinese tourism market

  ​Chinese tourists and business travellers taking taxis in Australia will soon be able to pay their fare with Alipay, following a partnership between the payment platform’s operator Ant Financial Services and Cabcharge Australia.

• Apple cartel bidders CBA, NAB and Westpac launch payments app

  Commonwealth Bank, Westpac, and National Australia Bank have announced they are launching a new payments app.

• ANZ adds Samsung Pay

  ANZ has added Samsung Pay to its offering, leading the big four in its coverage of the major contactless mobile payments options.

• ​NAB launches mobile payments service

  NAB is the latest bank to unveil a mobile payments service, launching an offering that allows consumers to use their Android smartphone to make purchases without the need for a physical card.
  

• Android Pay coming to Australia in 2016

  Google has announced it will release Android Pay in Australia during the first half of 2016, allowing users to make mobile payments by tapping their Android smartphones on terminals.

• ​Apple Pay now live in Australia, but only with American Express

  From today, Apple Pay will be available in Australia for contactless payment solutions on select iOS devices, but only for American Express customers.

• St George Bank releases Cardless Cash

  St George Bank on Tuesday released its Cardless Cash mobile app feature, which allows customers to withdraw money using their smartphone.

• Apple, Google and others look to goose mobile payments

  Because of slack buyer interest and other obstacles facing mobile payments in the U.S., Apple and other companies must inject new features and inducements to boost adoption.

• Commonwealth Bank to launch Ripple payments between its subsidiaries

  Commonwealth Bank of Australia will soon launch Ripple technology for its subsidiaries to transfer payments between them, CIO David Whiteing said today at a AIIA event in Sydney.

• CurrentC mobile pay to kick off in a single market mid-year

  Merchant Customer Exchange (MCX), a group of large U.S. merchants, said Monday it expects to launch an early version of its CurrentC mobile payment app mid-year in an unnamed, mid-sized market.

• Jawbone to have AmEx payments in future fitness band

  Fitness-band maker Jawbone and American Express plan to allow cardholders to buy goods using a future fitness band equipped with NFC, according to a report.