303 results about this entity
Period: 26 Nov 2004 - 05 Feb 2025
News
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
Australia's banks have brought in KPMG to manage a programme to build an industry-wide real-time payments platform by 2016.
05 July 2013
Dismissing forecasts of the bank branch's imminent demise, Westpac has committed A$240 million to a major, tech-heavy overhaul designed to bring its network into the 21st century.
11 December 2012
St George Bank of Australia claims to have 60,000 mobile banking customers who use only their smartphone to do all their banking.
05 November 2012
The Reserve Bank of Australia has appointed former Westpac tech chief Sarv Girn as its new chief information officer.
09 August 2012
Australia's Westpac is to begin pilot trials of an Android-based mobile contactless payment application.
07 August 2012
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