Australian Banks vs Apple

In one corner is the largest company in the world, Apple. In the other sit three of Australia's all-powerful banks, Commonwealth Bank, Westpac, National Australia Bank, and the country's fifth biggest lender Bendigo and Adelaide Bank.

The banks want to form a negotiating bloc to apply pressure to change Apple's tight contract conditions, even though it hasn't done so for much larger banks in other countries.

Academic economist Joshua Gans says it would be "blatantly anti-competitive," because one of the things that forces banks to provide technology people want (like Apple Pay) is pressure from rivals. He says "Put simply, what the banks are doing smells awful."

It's estimated the local banks collectively make $2 billion a year in revenue from interchange fees.

Read more in The Sydney Morning Herald

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