Australia’s new real-time banking payments platform

Re:Australia’s new real-time banking payments platform by sien on Tuesday February 13, 2018 @04:28PM (#16370944)

Australian who lived in the US here.

It used to make me laugh when Americans would describe Australia as 'like the US 10 years ago'.

Then I would write them a check.

Then I would try and send a text message that wouldn't go across networks as had always worked in Australia for years...

In Australia leaving in the 1990s I had never written a check because even then B-Pay was around and people did direct deposit for rent and things.

But Australia probably has about as many banks as California, so we have a much smaller problem.

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Re:Australia’s new real-time banking payments platform by idonotknowwhy on Thursday February 15, 2018 @07:18PM (#16388952)

This is good to hear. I've been getting increasingly disappointed with a lot of things we do in Australia, so it's good to hear that we're ahead of or on par with other "developed" countries in at least a few things.

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