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News

Australia Watchdog Fines X

The Australian watchdog for Internet security has fined the social network X, which has been owned by billionaire Elon Musk since October last year.

Blockchain & Crypto

Mastercard Reports on Wrapped CBDC Solution Success

Mastercard has participated in the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) and the Digital Finance Cooperative Research Centre’s (DFCRC) central bank digital currency (CBDC) pilot project, showing positive results.

Fintech & Ecommerce

Australia Plans to Regulate Digital Payment Services

The Australian government has officially announced plans to introduce new legislation that will give the Reserve Bank of Australia the authority to carry out activities to regulate digital payment services, including providers of virtual wallets.

Blockchain & Crypto

Swyftx Earn and Learn Platform Pays Aussies for Crypto Education

Australian crypto exchange Swyftx is going to reward customers learning about crypto scams through a new “Earn and Learn” education platform

News

FinTech Startup Yeeld Partners With Airwallex to Accelerate Global Payments

Fintech startup Yeeld announced the beginning of cooperation with the financial company Airwallex in order to accelerate global payment operations and other transactions for customers.

Fintech & Ecommerce

Amazon’s Robot Workers to Manage Warehouse in Australia

The Australian branch of Amazon plans to move to the largest warehouse in this country.

Finance & Economics

Westpac Splits Consumer and Business Banking Unit

The combined Westpac business unit is going to be split into two, each with its own CEO

News

Australian Firm Facilitate Corp Sues Twitter

An Australian company that carries out project management activities has filed a lawsuit against Twitter in a US court.

Society & Lifestyle

Australia Threatens to Fine Twitter

The Australian cybersecurity regulator turned to Twitter, the current owner of which is billionaire Elon Musk, with a request to provide an explanation of the concept of this digital platform to combat the spread of materials that promote hate speech in the virtual space.

Blockchain & Crypto

Australian Bank Limits Transfers to Crypto Exchanges

Commonwealth Bank (CBA), the largest bank in Australia, would decline or put “certain payments to cryptocurrency exchanges” on a 24-hour hold, and limit crypto transfers

News

Australia Wants to End Check Payments

In Australia, the era of paper checks is gradually coming to an end.

News

Kasisto Introduces Banking-Specific LLM KAI-GPT

The KAI-GPT large language model (LLM) is designed to address the banking industry’s unique needs for accuracy, transparency, trustworthiness and customization

News

FinTech Australia and FDATA Call For CDR Roadmap

The leading Australian peak body of the fintech industry, FinTech Australia, and the global non-profit organization supporting open banking companies, FDATA, have published a joint appeal addressed to politicians calling for the creation of a roadmap for the implementation of consumer data rights (CDR).

News

Reserve Bank of Australia Tests CBDC Use Cases in Pilot

In Australia, the Reserve Bank, in collaboration with the Digital Finance Cooperative Research Centre (DFCRC), demonstrated the potential use cases and economic benefits of the central bank’s digital currency (CBDC).

News

Lululemon Adds Textile Recycling to Its Circularity Initiatives

Lululemon has directed a minority investment in the Australian waste recycling company Samsara Eco.

Blockchain & Crypto

Westpac Bans Transfers to Binance

The Australian bank Westpac has blocked the possibility of financial operations for the transfer of funds to a division of Binance, which operates in Australia.