Tag: visa
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Small Queensland bank creates wearable Visa card
The Heritage Bank in Queensland has beaten the big 4 banks within Australia in the race for wearable tech. The wearable tech has been given to 40 Heritage Bank customers and allows them to pay with a chip on a wristband, which is also waterproof. The wristband features the Visa Paywave chip that allows people to…
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Visa is changing how people pay
Payments technology has changed significantly over the last twenty years, with traditional cash payments being slowly outmoded by other methods of payment. This is due in large part to Visa, which, along with other credit card companies, has driven and revolutionised payment technology. Their latest payment innovation is a wearable pay band. According to Visa, the payment…
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Brexit may make it easier to work in the UK
If you’re looking for a change of scene, and looking toward the UK to work and live in a different country, then Brexit may have helped your cause. Currently, there are quite stringent conditions on working and living in the UK for an extended period of time. However, Australian high commissioner to the UK, Alexander…
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Staff paid a measly $4 an hour
It has been revealed that Taiwanese company Chia Tung Development Corp have been breaching several Fair Work Acts for temporary visa holders. 43 staff, largely from the Philippines were exploited as they undertook work as welders, metal fabricators and electricians in regional NSW. The workers received as little as $4 an hour. Not only was the pay grossly…