Premium Case studies APS culture needs a serious shake-up to deliver Albo’s lean, green, electric dream Australian Capital Territory The bureaucracy will need to have a lot more technical people working directly for it if it wants to make the ‘renewables superpower’ dream happen.
Premium Case studies From real-time to go-slow: Britain’s great payments misadventure brakes hard April 16, 2024 By Julian Bajkowski Economy & Industry The road to hell is paved with good intentions. Then there’s Authorised Push Payments, which will soon see UK transactions take a week to clear.
Premium Insights and analysis Banks get jitters over digital ID December 7, 2023 By Julian Bajkowski Economy & Industry Banks now agree they disagree on digital identity. So, like, after 20-years, thanks for that. Where did you say my money went?
Premium Insights and analysis Banks’ Scam-Safe Accord still a liability-free zone November 27, 2023 By Julian Bajkowski Communications & Technology Institutions try to dazzle regulators with $100 million security jazz hands as imported UK model comes without fraud indemnity airbags.
Premium Insights and analysis Treasury excises screen-scraping fintechs from the bottom of its shoe September 8, 2023 By Julian Bajkowski Communications & Technology Dangerous screen scraping could soon be banned, with risk appetites changing after millions of Australians had their personal data stolen.
Premium Insights and analysis Real-time reckoning comes to Stephen Jones, RBA and retail banks July 13, 2023 By Julian Bajkowski Federal The world of unintended consequences from technology is boundless. Just add lawyers and some dreamy regulation.
Jones pulls handbrake on Consumer Data Right expansion June 5, 2023 By Julian Bajkowski Communications & Technology With risks seeming to outweigh the benefits, an extension of the Coalition’s signature consumer data rights reform is uncertain.
Premium Insights and analysis Apple runs rings around regulators by bringing real competition to banks May 22, 2023 By Julian Bajkowski Economy & Industry Apple has released Tap to Pay in Australia, the second jurisdiction outside of the US to have the ‘cash killer’ technology turned on.
Banks conspicuously cold shoulder $88m Budget boost for Consumer Data Right May 10, 2023 By Julian Bajkowski Economy & Industry Notable support for the CDR’s expansion into ‘action initiation’ is conspicuously absent, despite the Budget’s commitment to the scheme.
RBA outage autopsy reveals real-time payments mess November 29, 2022 By Julian Bajkowski Economy & Industry Australia’s central bank has found itself apologising to the very institutions it’s meant to police.
Medibank data theft hits 10 million people as ransom payment refused November 7, 2022 By Julian Bajkowski Federal A line is being drawn on ransomware, with Medibank citing a stance “consistent with the position of the Australian Government.”
Premium Insights and analysis Switched-on competition and microeconomic reforms ready to pay off in spades October 18, 2022 By Julian Bajkowski Economy & Industry Andrew Leigh is a lot closer to the everyday aspirations of the bulk of Australians who earn a living outside the public sector than are many of his partisan peers.
Premium Insights and analysis Demarcations fade as NSW Police activate cyber operations hub August 30, 2022 By Julian Bajkowski Communications & Technology The facility, at a protected location, is a direct response to NSW Police systems and assets becoming a key target for criminal and state-sponsored hackers.
Consumer data right scheme expanded December 16, 2021 By Melissa Coade Economy & Industry Changes to the ‘consumer data right’ mean third parties can now initiate actions on behalf of businesses and consumers — with consent.
Recommendation for telco sector to join CDR scheme November 25, 2021 By Melissa Coade Communications & Technology Public input is sought for a new draft instrument that sets out data holders and datasets proposed for designation under the Consumer Data Right reform.