ANZ Bank to Trial NFC Contactless Payments Service

Published on: 4th Oct 2012

­The Australia and New Zealand Banking Group (ANZ) has launched a trial of a mobile wallet, which is a contactless mobile phone payments system using NFC technology on Android devices.

"A trial of an ANZ mobile wallet will kick off today. This will see 25 of our staff, including me, live testing our solution with the aim to make this available to our customers in mid- 2013," ANZ CEO Australia Philip Chronican said.

"We know our customers prefer to do their day-to-day transactions in their own time either online or by using mobile devices so our task is to respond to this change by embracing the online and digital challenge and enable our customers to bank with us on their terms," Mr Chronican said.

In addition, 800 of NCR's 'next generation' intelligent ATMs will be progressively introduced into branches from next year, providing 24-hour access to many transactions that are traditionally done in branches such as providing instant value for cash or cheque deposits.

"The upgrade also means that we will be more readily able to introduce cutting edge technology that makes banking easier such as contactless or cardless transactions," Mr Chronican said.

 

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