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Australia: New Payments Platform helps fintech startups innovate

Tuesday 20 February 2018 09:32 CET | News

The New Payments Platform (NPP), a real-time payment platform, is expected to help fintech startups develop solutions utilising the NPP network, according to GlobalData.

For example, the QR-based payment acceptance would have a great potential in the Australian market through the NPP platform.

Australia struggles with a segment of merchants that have yet to take up electronic payment acceptance. With QR acceptance, the cost can be greatly reduced and implementation can also be done swiftly.

QR-based payment is not entirely new to the Australian market. For example, BPAY, the electronic bill payment system in the market, introduced a QR system in 2013.

From a cost and technical perspective, a QR-based solution will be the most efficient solution to implement for profit-driven fintechs.

According to GlobalData’s Smart Money Analytics, a database that tracks funding in the fintech space by the world’s top venture capital and private equity firms, payments have consistently ranked among the top three sectors for investment.


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