00:00 Dave: Hello and welcome to the Australian Payments Plus Point of View podcast, in which we examine the theme of trust. Today we'll be examining the future of money, payments and identity in supporting businesses with real-time payments and PayTo. I'm your host, Dave Ellett, Chief Commercial Officer at AP+, and joining me are Lisa Vasic and Anuj Mehra. Lisa is ANZ's Managing Director for Transaction Banking and is an industry leader with more than 15 years as a Senior Executive in Payments, Cash Management, Sales, Corporate and Institutional Banking. 


She is known for her customer-centered ethos, strategic execution and building successful and diverse teams. Anuj leads Real-Time Payments Propositions at ANZ, and is here to talk about supporting businesses with real-time payments and PayTo. Anuj, Lisa, welcome to the AP+ Point of View.


00:56 Lisa: Thank you.


00:58 Anuj: Thank you for having me. 


00:58 Dave: Glad to have you both. So, obviously an important topic today. So, I think first question for you, Lisa, how do real-time payments support Australian businesses?


01:07 Lisa: What a big question to start with, I'm first off the rank, but it's a really important one because we're sitting here in 2024, where I'm gonna do a little bit of a forecast. My forecast goes like this, in 2028, 2029, batch will be a word that we'll think about in a historical context. 


01:24 Dave: I like that. 


01:24 Lisa: Whether that is, have I done my batch processing? Have I done my reconciliation? Do I know if my payment has been receipted? Can I release goods if they've been receipted? And that's been so much part of the payments landscape forever. And so when businesses often think about payments, they actually think about as a friction in their business, the thing that they need to get visibility of, the thing that they need to be able to identify, to allocate, to have trust to release services or goods.


And importantly, also the cost of actually supporting payments in terms of having teams that support day two reconciliation requests, queries, et cetera. So, when businesses are thinking about, you know, the digital kind of revolution and what it means for them, these are kind of some concepts that really hang off the way of our historical payments infrastructure, that in our new payments infrastructure, which is the kind of entree into real-time payments are things that are going to hopefully be historical concepts.


02:21 So, what does real-time payments mean to business here in Australia? First of all, it means being available 24/7, a payments infrastructure to support a digital economy. It means having a payments stream that actually has 280 characters, including emojis, versus...


02:40 Dave: Important characteristic.


02:41 Lisa: Very, very important differentiation, particularly for my kids, and also very much from 18 characters in our local ACH or our direct entry system. So, we are living in a world where data matters, data in terms of what it tells about who is paying, what they're paying for, what the information associated with that payment is required for. 


All of these things are really important for businesses, and our historical system has not been able to have the capability to be able to support that. So, real-time payments means a lot of things, but it means different things for different businesses. Some customers will say it's great because now I can offer payments 24 by 7, my business is an e-commerce business, I need that flexibility, I need to be able to receive that, other than acquiring methods, which have been traditionally the only way to operate 24 by 7. 


03:26 Other businesses will be saying it's great because now I have a payments infrastructure that is actually data-rich. Other customers will be saying, it's great because now I can actually have real efficiency in the way that I collect and process payments because depending on the method that I use, I can actually almost kind of have zero reconciliation. 


And the fourth one, which I think is actually the real nugget for you around real-time payments and which I'm going to steal a little bit of your thunder about our favorite topic, which is PayTo. PayTo is a request-to-pay services overlaying our real-time payments network. It's probably the magic ingredient that's been missing in the Australian payments landscape because it addresses two issues on different sides of the same coin. 


04:07 Choice for the consumer and control over who can actually take payments from me and when and for what. And then on the other side of the equation for the businesses, I know who I'm requesting payment from, validation around who I am getting payment from. And I know the exact dollar value and who, so I can actually have zero reconciliation or atomic settlement. Those are actually huge changes in actually creating real trust and support of the real-time payment system here in Australia.


04:33 Dave: So I mean, obviously a lot of compelling reasons there from a business perspective around real-time payments and obviously we're going to explore a bit more in PayTo, but Anuj, I'm interested from a consumer perspective, I mean, how do consumers benefit from real-time payments such as PayTo?


04:47 Anuj: Yeah. Lisa touched on it. The first and foremost thing that stands out is choice. Choice because it's a payment type that customers may want or desire. And you think about bill payments and invoice payments, they default to bank accounts today.


So, it's not just a choice, it's a preferred option in many cases for our customers. It also is important that a number of Australians now do not have credit cards. And that choice is fundamentally also important for them. But where PayTo starts to stand out is this notion of visibility. Visibility and control within the banking app. 


05:19 So, first, no one can take money out of my account without me authenticating in my banking app and saying you're authorized to do so. That's fundamentally security by default. Not security as an afterthought, security built into the payment process.


Now that provides a huge amount of comfort to Australians as they think about a payment option they use. Secondly, there's visibility. So, all my payment agreements with whoever the merchants are, are within my banking app. That allows for better budgeting, but also adding in that we think about financial wellbeing. If you have visibility of all your payments, then you can take better actions around managing your money. Now, you also then have greater control. 


05:54 You can pause, change bank accounts, and you and I have, perhaps you not, but me certainly, losing a card means having to call all merchants trying to make a change. That'll be self-serve within the banking app, but importantly, we don't lose bank accounts. They remain permanent. So, huge amount of value on the consumer side as they start to adopt this new payment type.


06:16 Dave: Yeah, I mean, I think just that control back to a consumer is kind of so important, particularly in this kind of digital world. So, I can see why, you know, from an ANZ perspective, some of those things would be absolutely important. You've both kind of talked about trust as well. Obviously, this podcast is largely based on trust.


So, I'm interested, why is it important for the economy that consumers and businesses trust the payment system in Australia?


06:38 Lisa: Well, let me maybe turn on the head of saying, what does not having trust cost us? And, you know, if we think about it in the context of scams and frauds, These create uncertainty and they are actually a significant cost on both consumers and businesses alike. So, no one in the broader ecosystem is immune from the cost of scams and frauds. And therefore having that visibility and as Anuj said, you know, the benefit of something like a PayTo system is if I'm a consumer, I know that if a biller, and let me just pick one for visibility sake, if I pay for a biller, with Vodafone, and Vodafone decides to do a payment initiation to me. I know I've got a contract with Vodafone. I know I'm expecting a request for payment. 


I then go into my banking app, I can validate that the request is coming from Vodafone. I can validate that it's actually the same as my contract agreement. And Vodafone knows that the customer that they've contracted to is a customer that's actually paying them. So this known-knowns is a really important kind of foundation. Historically, our direct entry system hasn't given us those foundational abilities of actually those known-knowns.


07:42 It's really been, I will trust the system. But the way that the system is now being used by businesses and consumers alike means that we need to have the known-knowns to create that trust in the broader environment. So, this is why the real-time payments, whether it's through OSCO, through Pay IDs, whether it's through PayTo initiation mandates, now builds up a lot more of those known-knowns to give confidence when people are making payments 24 by 7.


08:06 Dave: Yep. So, I mean, just building on from that, clearly trust is critical and the banks play a key role in building trust. But maybe just explore some of those key elements of how you think about going about it and how can real-time payments enhance this and what will maybe some of the challenges be? Probably a question for both of you.


08:24 Anuj: Yeah, so I think the most important thing, Dave, from my side is that consumers inherently trust the payment system. So, I think it's important, and the design of PayTo very much supports that argument. One, it allows you to provide a consent before money is taken out. So, if you consider to direct debit, you can sign on a piece of paper, and that could be any amount. You could literally be signing off your entire bank account.


Now, we trust the merchant to not do that, but that essentially is possible, and we do know accidents happen. Secondly, it's the layer around authenticating in the banking app and providing consent. Banks are fundamentally very trusted organizations, and going into your banking app and, you know, step up authentication to provide consent to the agreement provides individuals comfort that they are paying a genuine counterparty. Now, it's also very important, right, that the payment agreement that PayTo creates, it's very transparent to both the biller and the consumer. 


09:15 So I, as Lisa said, I exactly can see what a merchant is going to charge me, for what amount, what is the frequency, and that I am in full control of that. So, those sort of, you know, building blocks are really important as the economy becomes even more real-time and we start to transact 24/7.


09:32 Lisa: And if I could just add to that in a way, if I put the business and the biller hat on. What's also important is trust in that I can actually forecast my cash flow.


09:40 Dave: Yeah.


09:41 Lisa: Because I know that when I actually run these agreements, I'm either going to get a confirmation or a decline in real time that the funds are coming. I'm not waiting then for a batch process overnight and then waiting for two to three days later for a dishonour to come through that can create uncertainty in the business and create its cost.


So, I think these are the other things too, when we try to think about if we can create a system that is good for the whole ecosystem, it benefits everyone. And this is where generally what the real-time payments are doing and particularly with PayTo in terms of initiation of payments, it creates benefits for many consumers in terms of choice and control and visibility, as Anuj said. 


10:19 And we've seen that in other markets where particularly vulnerable customers feel more comfort about actually knowing what's going to be coming through their bank account, knowing which bills are at play, or being able or billers or institutions being able to construct payments in such a way that meet the needs of those consumers. So I think that's really important that we think about those building blocks and similarly on the biller side, having a payment process that is much more efficient, that gives much more certainty, again, reduces the overall cost of payments. 


And when we think about it, it's not just a payment fee, irrespective of where in that ecosystem it's paid, it's the total cost of payments that's really important for us to think about in this broader ecosystem. And this is why we're quite excited about PayTo.


10:59 Dave: And so we talk about the cost of payments, and you think about real-time payments. Real-time payments can actually typically allow for a much larger transaction, and that could be $50,000 or plus. So if the consumer is kind of making that sort of payment, they really want to know whether the money's going to the right place. 


And this is where the kind of question of friction comes in for me. I mean, I know around the world, some of the real-time platforms are saying, is there a case at some times to add some friction, particularly as you talked around, Lisa, around the rise of frauds and scams, you know, the scammers are kind of looking in this space as well. So, interested in your perspective on the need for friction around payments, and how could this experience be delivered to a consumer or to a merchant?


11:39 Anuj: Yeah, so I think they've authorized push payment fraud as a function of those push payments being enabled for every single account. When we look at PayTo in particular, it's slightly different. A biller needs to be enabled to offer PayTo as a capability. So we at ANZ, and I know AP Plus in particular are also interested in making sure we have the right guardrails around who are these billers. 


We have the right controls around what they are processing for, and we have the right kind of billers launching this service initially. That means that when a payment agreement is offered to a consumer, they're comfortable that the banks and the scheme have done the due diligence around who those merchants are. 


12:14 So, I feel like it's a step change from authorized push payments that comfort around the banks have done the onboarding and make sure that the right quality of billers, the right financial strength, right controls are in place for the billers, is really important. And then when the consumer access it, they feel like they can trust that the due diligence has been covered.


12:32 Dave: Thank you. So when we think about direct debits, I'm interested to know what you think is the timeline for direct debits being migrated to PayTo? Is it going to need an industry push or are there examples where consumers will naturally migrate across? I'm just interested in your perspective on that one.


12:49 Anuj: Yeah, that's a very good question, Dave. It's a question that I get asked all the time. So, I think first, if I take a backward step, so for us at ANZ, we think about Pay2To as a far more horizontal product than direct debit. Direct debit was limited to recurring payments only, so that meant it was a segment of the market that was using it. For us, PayTo is much broader than that. We think PayTo will form part of the payment mix for almost all of our clients, whether they are doing recurring, whether they're doing ad hoc.


And an approach at ANZ we've had is that we're not necessarily fixated on migrating direct debits just as yet. We're very much interested in making sure our customers are ready for the real-time payments economy that we're trying to enable with PayTo. So first and foremost, we've spent a lot of time making sure our customers are ready for the future that is coming very, very soon. So that's been sort of our desire. 


13:36 Within that, we've been trying to convince our customers to find the first use case where they can enable PayTo. And that use case could be a variety of variables you can assign to it, high value, low risk, or whatever the variable you assign to. And our customers are starting to, this year, test with the use cases. And we have had a couple of live merchants now and a number of them going live later this year. 


But really, for us, it's about setting the foundation that our customers are ready to do so. Now in terms of migration, there is various schools of thought around how that migration happens. A number of customers are thinking about test and learn, and then the next iteration is migrate.


14:10 A number of others are thinking about, well, we have a natural end of contract in our plans that we support. Now it could be an insurance company, it could be a telco. How do we start this process that once they end, the new sort of services commences on PayTo. And really giving some thought around, right, merchants are very careful around how much communication they force to their consumers and how many changes do they impose. So, a lot of very good discussions happening behind the scene around what is the appropriate pathway. 


So, I wouldn't say that we need a push just as yet. I think the foundations from our perspective is we are comfortable with how this is progressing. I think 2025 is really the year where we start to see a lot of big brands come up with their first use case. And then when we progressively start to see that positive feedback loop, because someone's live, you need to be live, and then we see the transition out. So, 2025 is a year when we start to see some big brands talk about it. '26, '27, '28, well before 2030 we're covered, I would hope.


15:03 Lisa: And I think that's really important because we do need that network effect. So really, if we think about the system today, the banks have exposed the accounts to be reachable for these mandates. But interesting in the conversations we've had with a number of our customers is they're thinking about it from kind of a couple of perspectives so far, which is new use cases. Then they're also really thinking about it from that customer experience perspective. So there are just different drivers. It's not trying to swap out one for another that are the same. 


They're actually quite different. And so what a lot of our customers are really trying to think about is, what is my customer experience that I want to provide for our services? How does PayTo fit into that customer experience? Does it go to particular principles that I want to make sure that we provide to our customers? And as Anuj said, visibility, transparency, choice, control. We're hearing from a lot of big dealers that these are really important elements of actually what they want to provide their customers.


15:59 And so therefore they're not looking at this as a straight swap. I think to Anuj's comment, I think it'll be a little while before we see kind of direct swap out of it. The challenges is direct debit works. 


16:09 Dave: Yeah, it does.


16:11 Lisa: And so we're not got a huge problem at the moment, but what we do have is direct debit has always had this kind of natural ceiling in the billing hemisphere that really can capture because certain cohorts of customers will not feel comfortable giving open access to their bank accounts to a biller.


So, you find that they're using other methods which can be actually more expensive and not necessarily what the consumer wants, but because the consumer wants control, they won't give direct debit. We genuinely think that some of those cohorts of consumers that have been resistant to direct debit will be much more open to PayTo because it fundamentally is on that basis that gives them control, choice and visibility.


16:48 Dave: I mean, I was gonna ask about the rollout, but it sounds like Anuj has already given us the answer. It's 2025 starting from, so I'll take it from you. That's where we're gonna start seeing some of the migration happen. But it was quite interesting then, I just loved how you were talking about its different use cases, different customers have different experiences and moving at different times. Maybe just expand a little bit more on that for me?


17:07 Anuj: So fundamentally, if you think about commerce is payments are just two forms. One is on-demand, ad hoc payments. Another one is consumption of service and then recurring or subscription style payments. And what we really appreciate about PayTo is that it's not two payments type to solve that problem, it's the one payment type. And Lisa touched on it before, it's really important to a lot of our merchants because it helps with the total cost of ownership of the payment because they can create whatever payment journey they like, but it's the same payment type they're using.


So if I think about the subscription journey, which is the direct debit replacement, if you will, we're seeing use cases from people who are currently using direct debit, as an example, your utilities, your telcos, your insurance companies, but also where direct debit is not used today, your streaming companies. 


17:53 Where, you know, they provide a very similar experience, but they're never meant to direct debit as an example. And there are other examples where subscription services have been used, but defaulted to card rails only. So, that's become an interesting focus point. 


The second one I think about is that ad hoc. And ad hoc has taken variety of forms. We've seen airlines offer it because they need to offer a choice on their sort of online options. We've seen car-buying companies be very interested in purchasing of car. We've talked about buying a property on a Saturday. We've seen B2B payments that have surprised us a fair bit. And we've seen this trend of consumerization of B2B interfaces. 


18:29 So, when you buy wholesale services, now you have a portal to interact with and make a payment. And we see PayTo fitting into that quite a bit. Ad hoc style, on-demand, paying an invoice or paying a statement at the end of the month, we see that as a use case. But the final one that really, really has surprised me is the one around payments being made from my bank account or payments being made from a corporate's bank account. And the way we think about that is, why does someone want to make a payment? Because they desire control, they desire visibility.


Well, those are the two key attributes of PayTo. No one can take money out of my account unless I provide a consent. Really important for a corporate, but important for me in my personal life as well. I have full visibility of when the payment's coming out. So, we think this notion of why make a payment when payments can automatically happen will be this new set of use cases that corporates will start to use it.


19:18 Now, we're not suggesting that all your payments are being done via PayTo, but your lease payments, your subscription payments, your telco, your council, whatever it might be, there will be a need to automate some of those payments, or there is a desire to automate some of those payments, and we'll certainly see some of those use cases happen over the next little while.


19:34 Dave: Sounds like there's loads of use cases that particularly you and ANZ are working on and from different segments, at different levels, potentially, but obviously, it sounds like it's also servicing some new use cases for yourself.


19:45 Lisa: And I think the other, Anuj just talked about it, the B2B space. We often really focus around that kind of consumer experience, but the middle bit that's often been forgotten is that B2B, whether it's big B to little B, and particularly we've got 2028 check issuing being phased out. We've got, obviously, the retirement of the direct entry system in 2030. Now, for us in the payment space and payment nodes, we know this stuff, right? But for the average business and the average consumer, it's irrelevant.


What's relevant is how do payments impact the way that they manage their businesses? And what we're seeing, particularly in the B2B space, there are some genuine opportunities now with PayTo about providing a real alternative to checks and to cash payments, particularly where it's picking up stock and taking delivery of stock where traditionally it's been the handover of a cheque to be able to facilitate that exchange piece. 


20:33 So this is a bit I think that's going to be really exciting is that a cohort that's probably been somewhat bypassed by some of the real-time payments experiences to date will really be opened up. The key thing for us though as an industry is we've got to do a big job around education and I know Anuj and his team here at ANZ has been very much focused around having the conversation with the customers and asking and inquiring about how they would see this being relevant to their business. 


What are some of the opportunities in new business cases, but importantly also what are some of the existing use cases that they see the PayTo will provide a genuine alternative to. So I think there's still a lot more to do on that space particularly over the next kind of 12 to 18 months, but as we get this network effect up as we start to see more PayTo in the broader economy, I think we'll start to see many more use cases come through particularly in that B2B space.


21:21 Dave: Great, thank you. When I think about real-time payments as well, I mean obviously we're focused a lot domestically here, but I'm interested just going a bit further afield. So Lisa, what do you see as some of the challenges in building and maintaining trust in real-time payments across different countries where there's different financial systems?


Let me take a step back is real-time payments isn't a phase. Real-time payments is happening across the globe. There are 80-odd countries that have some form of real-time payment system. If we look across the ditch in New Zealand, there is seven-day payments, which is a kind of a hybrid of real-time payments. But each consumer now expects things that can happen in real time. There is this concept of Monday to Friday between a start and an end time and cut-off times. 


22:02 And again, I started with batches probably being one of those anarchic kind of concepts, so is cut-off times. And I think in the cross-border space, we've... I have to do a little bit of a plug here. So forgive me for this one. 


22:13 Dave: Go on then, I'll allow you this one.


22:15 Lisa: Just one little one is that we've always been a very large provider of services to international banks. We think it's very important around supporting the global economy and creating that access to the payment rails. And to do that, one of the things we've been very focused around is making sure that there's access from the cross-border into our real-time payment rails. 


So, if you're a mum or dad in the UK and you want to get money to your partner, your relative, your family member for the birthday that falls on a Sunday, you can actually send money 24 by 7 because it'll connect via the SWIFT network and now using our express payment service, it'll go into the real-time payment rail. 


22:51 So, this whole kind of concept, I sent money on Friday, but my niece didn't get the money until Tuesday. Well, that's actually going to be a thing of the past as we leverage this kind of connectivity across the real-time payment rail. So, that's one. Two is also within our region. We often look to the kind of North America and to Europe as the leading parts around real-time. Well, actually, a lot of that leadership is actually happening in our own region here in Asia-Pacific and particularly around the connectivity between different countries' clearing systems and particularly using real-time payments. 


So, Project Nexus is one of those where they're looking at actually connecting some of the real-time payment rails across different geographies. So soon, what is gonna be seen as a domestic service will actually, I think, they have elements to be connected globally, which means that I can get money anywhere in the world 24 by 7. That's not today.


23:37 Dave: I was gonna ask about that.


23:38 Lisa: It's not today yet, but coming into Australia, yes, using a lot of the banks that ANZ supports, but in the future, I think we're gonna see that becoming much more of a standard kind of proposition as we see that connectivity across the cross-border and into the real-time payment space.


23:50 Dave: How far away is that? I mean, you gave a prediction at the start about four, five years. This is what it's gonna look like...


23:55 Lisa: Oh, look, it's a really, I think if you look across some of the G20 initiatives, you know, trying to make sure that we can bring down the cost of cross-border payments, making sure that we have financial inclusion is, I think, really important. Through some of the connectivity of the real-time payment networks, you can start to see the facilitation of some of those objectives. And I think that's where a lot of banks, again, are gonna be leading towards, making sure that they can give the best customer propositions for their customers.


So, we're gonna see a lot more connectivity. And by default, I think, you know, if we're sitting here in four years' time and we're still talking about batch, it's gonna feel very old. It's gonna feel very clunky. And I think the difference when we talked about friction earlier on in the context of real-time payments, friction in the context of real-time payments is adding safety layers. 


24:39 Friction in today's payments is all about cutoff times and batch payments and the system constraints. So, I think we're going to have a gruel inverse of that in terms of actually, you know, how we think about payments in a 2028 concept.


24:50 Dave: Yeah, I mean, it's interesting you talked about that experience about sending money from the UK. I've actually done that several times and just waiting for three days, hoping it's going to turn up is not a nice experience. So, I can't wait for that to be a real-time personally. But I just want to lead on to my last question for both of you. I know we've focused on PayTo but I just want to go a little bit broader as well.


So, what do you think are the key issues with how direct debits are processed today using BEX that can undermine a customer's trust and confidence and how will pay to address these?


25:20 Anuj: Yeah. So, let me kick off and Lisa, you'll have a view here as well. But I think there are a couple of things, Dave, that stand out from direct debit. First is there is no account validation. When a consumer is signing up to an agreement with a merchant, merchant has no way to know that they are the rightful owner of the bank account. And we see that can be used in variety of ways, including fraud and accessing services that they are not required to own. 


Now, the other big issue is that it's a blanket open-ended agreement. That is not helpful for a lot of consumers who would not like an open-ended agreement signed off. 


25:54 Dave: Yeah, they  want certainty.


25:54 Anuj: Correct. They want to trust the merchant, but also they are hesitant to sig n off access to my bank account completely. But what frustrates the merchants most is, and Lisa touched on this, cut off and running on a Monday to Friday schedule, but then also have a three-day dishonour window where you have collected a payment and you don't know until the fourth day whether you have the money or not. That means that you're running multiple experiences. 


And I've seen examples where if the first payment is needed immediately, you know, they will offer, a merchant will offer me a card acceptance so that they can be sure that they've received the money and then put me on a direct debit schedule. And all of these frictions, as you can see, are adding to the cost of ownership from the merchant perspective.


26:33 Lisa: And they're not a great consumer experience. And I think this is where we've got to come down to again, you know, why we are very buoyed by PayTo as a proposition is, yes, we deal predominantly with the biller end of the equation, but the real strength of PayTo is the control and choice it provides consumers. And billers know that if they can give customers that optionality, they know they're onto a winning proposition.


And I think that's where we can continue to see really positive feedback coming through. And why direct debit, you know, is not a payment rail of the future, because it doesn't offer those things. If you try to cancel a direct debit, it's a really painful experience. Yes, you know, depending on it's got to be validated as to why, then you've got to, you know, claim it back.  Also, if that direct debit's on a credit card and your credit card expires, there's breaks in delivery of the process. 


27:23 You could find that your insurance could be elapsed without you knowing because of a break in the direct debit process. And then there's a cost that applies to that. So, you know, having something like PayTo, where you're not having those dishonour experiences, particularly from a consumer experience or from a bill expense, I think is going to be really positive as we move forward.


27:41 Dave: Yeah, look, I think I can tell you're both very passionate about this. I think there's a lot of benefits that we've gone through today on the consumer side and on the business side. And it'd be great to see where kind of PayTo gets to in a year's time. So I just want to thank you both for joining me today on the AP Plus Point of View. And I'm sure our listeners will gain a lot of valuable insights from everything you shared today. 


28:01 Lisa: Thank you for having us.


28:02 Anuj: Yeah, likewise, Dave.


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