Australian organisations can now add secure digital identity verification to their online forms and customer journeys more easily, following a new integration between Snapforms and ConnectID. Snapforms helps organisations turn processes that traditionally relied …

For businesses considering the move to real-time payments, speed may be the most obvious benefit. But for those already making the transition, the bigger opportunity can lie in what happens around the payment.  Better …

This Scams Awareness Week, Australians will hear from banks, telcos, digital platforms and the National Anti-Scam Centre about how they’re working to fight scams – and that shared goal is exactly why protections keep …

Australian Payments Plus (AP+) has confirmed that a zero-surcharge limit will apply to eftpos transactions from 1 October 2026.  The change aligns with the RBA’s broader review of merchant card payment costs and surcharging1.and upcoming surcharge ban.  AP+ …

Australian Payments Plus (AP+) recently participated in Project Acacia as one of 13 lead industry organisations, contributing to a collaborative effort led by the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) and the Digital Finance Cooperative …

The Account-to-Account Payments Roundtable has today released a public consultation on the draft vision for the future of account-to-account (A2A) payments in Australia. Submissions close 22 May.  The Roundtable brings together Australian Payments Network (AusPayNet), Australian Payments Plus (AP+), the Reserve Bank of Australia …

Australian Payments Plus (AP+) has signed an agreement for Bolt to acquire its consumer payments app, Beem. AP+ CEO Lynn Kraus said: “While Beem has become a much-loved app within Australia, the time has come to hand …

Australian Payments Plus (AP+) welcomes today’s RBA decision to ban surcharges on debit card transactions, a change that will make everyday payments more predictable for Australians.   “Debit is how most Australians pay for …

In 2025, the NPP processed nearly 2 billion real-time payments and momentum is continuing to build. Research from Coalition Greenwich indicates that nearly one-third of large Australian corporates already have plans underway to move to modern payments systems, …

This week, leaders from across Australia’s payments ecosystem joined us in Sydney for AP+’s third annual Beyond Tomorrow summit.  Our biggest summit yet, the event brought together more than 700 policymakers, regulators, government, merchants, financial institutions and innovators to explore how payments infrastructure …