Westpac

302 results about this entity

Period: 26 Nov 2004 - 21 Nov 2024

Icici and Westpac team up for student remittances

ICICI Bank, India’s largest private sector bank by consolidated assets, today announced its partnership with ‘Westpac Banking Corporation’ (Westpac), one of the top banks in Australia, to offer Indian students a completely online payment solution through its ‘Money2World’ (M2W) platform for outward remittances.

Westpac steps up cloud strategy

Westpac has begun the migration of data to a new offsite private cloud environment operated by IBM in two data centres in Australia as part of a strategy to save money on data storage and stay at the forefront of new technologies.

Bank-backed Oz P2P payments app Beem It launches

Beem It, a person-to-person mobile payments app backed by Commonwealth Bank, National Bank of Australia and Westpac, has launched.

Westpac extends Banking Skill to Amazon Echo Spot

Westpac has today announced its customers can now access the Westpac Banking Skill offered via Amazon Alexa on Echo Spot, Amazon’s latest voice-enabled and touchscreen device.

Australian fintech firms call for competition watchdog to police open banking roll-out

Australian fintech companies have called on the the Government to hold the line on the introduction of open banking reforms in the face of a hostile push-back from some of the countries top banks.

Westpac and CommBank hit back at Aus Open Banking plans

Australia's big banks have begun a rearguard action to stave of the introduction of a new Open Banking regime, calling for an extended deadline as high costs and security issues take their toll.

Aussie real-time payments platform goes live

Australia's real-time payments platform goes live today, with customers of three of the country's big four banks able to transfer funds in seconds.

Westpac launches iMessage app following PayKey blockage

Westpac has launched an in-app shortcut for transferring funds to friends via iMessage. The move comes six months after Apple demanded that Westpac disable a feature from Israeli startup PayKey that added optional banking icons to the bottom of the screen during text conversations.

Westpac and NAB connect with Amazon Alexa

Westpac and NAB have joined the voice commerce goldrush, enabling customers to connect their Internet baking accounts to Amazon's Alexa, which has finally gotten its first outing in Australia.

Face ID today; digital DNA tomorrow

With the advent of Face ID on the iPhone, Travis Tyler, general manager, consumer digital at Westpac looks ahead to the next wave of innovation.

Oz banks team up for mobile P2P payments service

In the wake of their bitter battle with Apple, three of Australia's big banks have joined forces on a person-to-person mobile payments app.

Westpac to work with iconic design gurus for wearable payments play

Westpac is to work with top lifestyle designers to create a range of wearable tap and go payment attachments that can be fitted to consumer accessories.