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NAB receives green light to acquire 86 400 OCBC trials face verification log-in at ATMs Commonwealth Bank using emergency services data to find vulnerable customers The renaissance of digital banking Beem now has peer-to-peer real-time payment service Westpac to block abuse from money transfers How to build a cryptomining rig: Our favorite components Xinja Bank relinquishes Australian banking licence Singapore issues four digital bank licences instead of five Singapore gives non-banks access to e-payment platforms Bank of NZ to launch text-to-Kiwi voice service Singapore to offer grants for regulatory financial data reporting Westpac adds Afterpay to its digital 'bank-as-a-service' platform Afterpay gets a-okay from Austrac following anti-money laundering investigation TPG Telecom chosen to provide network services for NAB