Australian Banks Indirectly Help Bitcoin By Boycotting Apple Pay

The mobile payment sector is heating up, as every company and financial institution are scrambling to launch their platform in the near future. Over in Australia, it will not be smooth sailing for Apple Pay by any means, as the country’s major banks continue to boycott the popular mobile payment solution. NAB was among the first to launch their own mobile app, and now ANZ Mobile Pay is here as well. Bitcoin, on the other hand, is creating a far less fractured payment ecosystem around the world.
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Apple Pay Battle in Australia Becomes A Lot Harder Even when consumers might be preferring to use Apple Pay for their mobile purchases, they will be unable to do so unless their bank participates in the project. In Australia, the likelihood of being able to pay with Apple Pay is becoming is becoming much smaller on a monthly basis, as the country’s major banks keep boycotting this solution.
Similar to the struggles Apple is facing in Canada; bank participating remains a key issue in Australia. There is a lot of friction between all parties, only because the technology giant is looking to take a slice of interchange revenues in these countries. Needless to say, in this day and age of financial turmoil, banks are even less keen on sharing their revenue with other players.

This post was published at Bitcoinist on 2016/02/10.