Media Releases

Sydney, 16 December 2015: Cuscal, one of Australia’s leading providers of end-to-end payments solutions, is pleased to announce that it will be ready to connect its financial institution clients to Android Pay as soon as it launches in Australia. Cuscal’s clients include over 70 Australian financial institutions to which it supplies a range of products […]

Aschheim (Munich), 29 May 2015: Wirecard Group, with its New Zealand subsidiary GFG Group Limited, today announced that Cuscal Limited, one of Australia’s leading payment services companies, has selected Wirecard as solution partner for its next generation acquiring and issuing processing business. Cuscal, established in 1992, provides payment services to more than 100 banks, mutual […]

Sydney, 21 May 2015: Customers using their Android phone for ‘tap and pay’ purchases are most likely to be buying their groceries or a takeaway meal, spending an average of $27 per transaction, according to new data to be released at a national conference in Melbourne today. In July last year, customer-owned financial institution CUA […]

Sydney, 13 November 2014: The shareholders of Cuscal Limited (Cuscal), one of Australia’s leading providers of end-to-end payments, have today voted to approve the acquisition of Strategic Payments Services Pty Ltd (SPS). According to Managing Director Craig Kennedy, the acquisition cements Cuscal’s unique market position as the only independent ADI licensed wholesale payments company to […]

Sydney, 13 October 2014: Cuscal Limited (Cuscal), one of Australia’s leading providers of end-to-end payments, has today announced plans to acquire Strategic Payments Services Pty Ltd (SPS), subject to shareholder approval. If the transaction is approved it will cement Cuscal’s unique market position as the only independent ADI licensed wholesale payments company to deliver banking […]

Sydney, 14 July 2014: Cuscal, and Australia’s largest customer-owned financial institution, CUA, today announced the first commercial rollout of a mobile payments application using HCE (Host Card Emulation) to turn an NFC-enabled smartphone running the latest Android operating system (KitKat 4.4 or later), into a ‘tap and pay’ payments device. As of today, CUA cardholders […]

Next generation rediATMs offer extensive withdraw and self-service functionality Sydney, 25 June 2014: End to end payments leader Cuscal has commenced of a national refresh of Cuscal-owned rediATM machines. The combined $17 million software and hardware upgrade, which will be completed by June 2015, will replace Cuscal’s existing fleet with 1,200 next generation rediATMs that […]

Sydney, Wednesday 18 June 2014: On his first trip to Australia, China UnionPay’s President Shi Wenchao was formally welcomed by Cuscal’s Managing Director Craig Kennedy where they officially launched a joint ATM access partnership at a ceremony at the company’s Sydney headquarters attended by His Excellency Huaxin Li, General Consul, Consulate-General of the People’s Republic […]

Cuscal’s mobile contactless payment solution enables quick and seamless provisioning – an Australian first delivering tomorrow’s world today Sydney, 27 March 2014: End-to-end payments leader Cuscal has today announced the launch of the first trial of a HCE (Host Card Emulation)-based mobile payment capability, for Visa cardholders, in Australia and the Asia-Pacific. The future-ready solution […]