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We recently became the first Authorised Deposit-taking Institution (ADI) to become Payment Card Industry (PCI DSS 3.1) compliant throughout our whole business. Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) compliance is designed to protect customers’ card data information while it’s processed, stored or transmitted. As our whole company is certified it shows that we […]

Cuscal CIO, Brian Parker, has taken on a new role as General Manager, Emerging Business. In Brian Parker’s new role his focus will be on exploring emerging business opportunities, and translating these into deliverable opportunities for clients. Brian will also continue to be the executive lead responsible for the successful end-to-end implementation of the NPP […]

We have recently enhanced the functionality of our white-label, full-mobile banking app to include biometrics (fingerprint login), overseas notifications and feedback form as well as enhancing some current features. The next release of extra functionality is due in April/May. Users with an iPhone 5s and above can now sign in to the app using their […]

As we jump feet first into 2016, RFi Group had the pleasure of sitting down with Ashley Williams, Cuscal’s Senior Manager – Digital, and someone right in the Cuscal workroom, to discuss progression in the mobile banking and payments apps space and what the latest is when it comes to digital wallets. As General Manager […]

The New Payments Platform (NPP) will be arriving in 2017 and will be a catalyst for fundamental change in the way financial institutions, businesses and everyday people make payments. Most people in Australian payments-focused companies are aware of this much, but at Cuscal we’re finding that people are a bit hazier on the finer details […]

The announcement just before Christmas that Android Pay will arrive in Australia in early 2016 is big news for payments, but it’s also another significant step that’s slowly, but inevitably, taking mobile payments from niche to mainstream. There has been a lot of chatter about mobile wallets being the future of payments in Australia, but […]

A few of my Cuscal colleagues, some of our financial institution clients and I have recently returned from a payments study tour to the USA. We started at Money 20/20 in Las Vegas (the world’s biggest fintech conference) where 10,000 delegates from 75 countries gathered to hear about the latest global trends in finance – […]

Within the span of just a few years, mobile technology has changed virtually every aspect of the world that we live in. That’s because the mobile devices that we now happily or dutifully carry around have evolved from basic communication tools into portals that we use to not only engage with others, but also manage countless […]

As we race towards the launch of the NPP, the Industry Program has reached another significant milestone. It’s exciting to hear that BPAY is creating the first overlay service, the Initial Convenience Service (ICS), for Australia’s New Payments Platform. Due to launch in 2017, the NPP will facilitate faster, richer, more versatile payments in Australia, […]

With Australia’s New Payments Platform (NPP) still around two years from starting it would be easy to assume that financial institutions still have plenty of time to get ready, but the reality is that time is rapidly running out. Financial institutions that get ready now will receive clear economic benefits – those that don’t will […]