Wellington, Oct 4 NZPA - Merchant services company SmartPay Ltd said it is considering listing on the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX). The company's shares last traded at 3.4 cents each on the NZX.

Wellington, Sept 8 NZPA - Merchant services provider Smartpay is raising $4.3 million via a placement of shares in two tranches and will then move to reduce the number of shares on issue.

Wellington, June 28 NZPA - Merchant services company SmartPay is expanding its services to include prepay top-ups for mobile network operator 2degrees.

Wellington, June 24 NZPA - The New Zealand sharemarket barely moved on a day in which a quickly executed change of leadership in neighbouring Australia came on top of growth figures for this economy.

Wellington, May 31 NZPA - Eftpos terminal company Smartpay, which acquired the payments division of rival ProvencoCadmus from receivers, has reported a loss before tax of $2.648 million in the year to March 31 from a loss of $4.748m last year.

Wellington, May 7 NZPA - Telecom fell to a new record low of 207 today before recovering to 213 after reporting a drop in earnings on a day equity markets around the globe were in turmoil.

Wellington, May 6 NZPA - About 40 people will lose their jobs when merchant services provider Smartpay ceases manufacturing of Eftpos terminals in Auckland.

Wellington, April 9 NZPA - The New Zealand sharemarket ended little changed today but selected stocks continued to advance and brokers noted lines of stock trading in Michael Hill and Pyne Gould Corp.

Wellington, April 8 NZPA - The New Zealand sharemarket fell away today from an 18-month high reached yesterday, with market heavyweights Fletcher Building and Contact Energy both retreating from multi-month peaks.

Wellington, March 18 NZPA - The New Zealand sharemarket rose today even though the share price of market heavyweight Telecom languished near an all-time low set yesterday.