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Insights report

June

Insurers have been able to pass on cost increases in recent years, but affordability is an issue.

Housing woes collide with climate change and could hit every household

Like housing construction, the insurance industry is at the point where both the corporate and consumer sides are screaming for help.

May

Jeff Byrne

New research reveals business value is driving real-time transition

There’s almost universal awareness of the requirement to transition to real-time payments, new research reveals.

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by Westpac

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Real-time payments’ early adopters reap rewards

With so many competing priorities and limited resources, banks are taking a measured approach to implementing instant payments tech.

Real-time payments.

Race to real-time payments: big business ditches legacy systems

Two-thirds of big businesses say real-time payments will affect their market position. A new survey shows who’s moving now, and who risks getting left behind.

David Higgins, chief technology officer for financial security and fraud prevention firm, Eftsure, warns real-time payments can equal real-time fraud.

How banks can fight fraud in an instant-payments world

Security needs to be ironclad as faster transactions mean less time to detect and stop illicit flows by cybercriminals.

Westpac customers suffered major outages on three consecutive days this week.

Banks help businesses gain early-mover payments advantage

Lenders are embedding new technologies as regulators breathe down their necks and customers demand instant payments.

Former ASIC deputy head Jeremy Cooper says a legislated objective for superannuation should constrain governments from letting people use super to buy a house.

Cbus joins pilot program to speed up super payments

The fund has been part of the trial with a handful of large construction industry employers to get a clearer picture of how digital payments will work.

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