ANZ’s Mastercard customers will now be able to use their smartphone to make tap and go payments through Apple Pay and Android Pay.

Launching today, over 500,000 ANZ customers with Mastercard credit cards will be able to use the service to make mobile payments at any location where contactless payments are accepted.

Matt Boss, managing director of products and marketing at ANZ, said: “At ANZ we are working hard to build the best digital bank for our customers and this is another important step towards that goal. Our customers want choice in the way they bank and where they bank, and we know our Mastercard customers, both consumers and merchants, will be pleased with this news.”

Garry Duursma, head of market development and innovation at Mastercard Australia, said: “With Mastercard’s Digital Enablement Service (MDES) powering the secure tokenisation service for ANZ, cardholders can benefit from secure payments from their mobile devices everywhere contactless payments are accepted.”

ANZ became the first Australian bank to launch the Apple Pay service earlier this year and remains the only one of the country’s ‘Big Four’ banks to accept Apple payments, after the tech giant ran into a dispute with Commonwealth Bank, NAB and Westpac. These banks want access to the details of Apple’s NFC technology to aid the development of their own digital wallets and are threatening a collective boycott. A final decision is expected from the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission in October.

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