296 results about this entity
Period: 26 Nov 2004 - 31 Jul 2024
News
Australia's St George Bank has begun trialling iBeacon technology in branches, pinging information to customers' iPhones when they enter the building.
15 May 2014
Australia's Commonwealth Bank has beaten local rival WestPac to market with a new mobile app that enables customers to make cardless ATM withdrawals using just their smartphone.
30 April 2014
Westpac New Zealand customers will soon be able to log into their mobile banking app using fingerprint scanning.
14 April 2014
Westpac is forecasting almost $3 billion in contactless transactions will be made via mobile by 2015 as the Australian bank begins the roll-out of a new m-payment service on Samsung's Galaxy S4 and S5 smartphones.
09 April 2014
Westpac's new venture capital fund has taken a A$5 million stake in Australian peer-to-peer lending platform SocietyOne.
11 March 2014
Westpac has begun trialling a Google Glass app which lets users keep an eye on their balance and outlined plans to install Apple's iBeacon technology in branches.
04 February 2014
Westpac is investigating the cause of a technical problem that has hit its new online and mobile banking platform, locking out customers since Wednesday afternoon, Australian time.
29 January 2014
Commonwealth Bank of Australia has released a mobile NFC-based payments application for Samsung handsets, just ahead of rival bank Westpac, which has abandoned plans for sticker-based payments in favour of a fully-fledged mobile roll-out early next year.
12 December 2013
Westpac's New Zealand arm has sent out an SOS to the UK's geeks, launching a mobile and Web banking app design competition, which will see the winning developer score a trip down under.
03 December 2013
The New Zealand arm of Oz bank WestPac is poised to launch an app for the Sony SmartWatch, enabling customers to check their balances from their wrists.
16 October 2013
Customers of Aussie bank Westpac have been unable to access their online accounts via desktop, mobile and tablet devices for more than nine hours.
01 August 2013
Westpac is launching an initiative to crowdsource ideas for mobile banking apps from New Zealand developers and designers, with up to $70,000 of prizes for the winning applications.
24 July 2013
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