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Writer's pictureKian Jackson

Payment Gateways Australia

Fintechs have been grabbing the spotlight over the last few years and with rapid changes in business models there are opportunities to disrupt and offer a better customer experience.


As digital technology changes we have seen a new competitive landscape in online lending, banking, e-commerce, the transfer of money and payment platforms.


For many online gateways or internet gateways that operate in Australia they follow a variety of variations to get payment authorisations to the issuer.


Below is a common way to send an authorisation to the issuer. Many online payment gateways create a partnership with a preferred Acquirer to offer a combined solution to a merchant. This gives the merchant an online gateway, ability to process payments and settle funds through one payment provider rather than traditionally maintaining multiple commercial relationships. Although this is a combined offer multiple points of failure remain throughout the flow.

 

The next model is called the switch to Issuer model and this reduces a point of failure at the Acquirer. In this case the gateway communicates directly with the schemes to reach the issuer.


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