Westpac

303 results about this entity

Period: 26 Nov 2004 - 05 Feb 2025

Westpac trials Google Glass app and Apple iBeacon

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.

Westpac suffers downtime on new online banking platform

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.

CommBank and Westpac to put Australia at forefront of Mobile NFC wave

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.

Westpac launches app development challenge for Brits

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.

WestPac NZ preps Sony Smartwatch app

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.

Westpac hit by major online outage

Customers of Aussie bank Westpac have been unable to access their online accounts via desktop, mobile and tablet devices for more than nine hours.

Westpac to crowdsource ideas for new banking apps

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.

Oz banks gear up for real-time payments system

Australia's banks have brought in KPMG to manage a programme to build an industry-wide real-time payments platform by 2016.

Westpac embarks on major branch network overhaul

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.

St George signposts mobile-only future for smartphone users; more jobs to go at Westpac

St George Bank of Australia claims to have 60,000 mobile banking customers who use only their smartphone to do all their banking.

RBA appoints former Westpac CTO Girn as new chief information officer

The Reserve Bank of Australia has appointed former Westpac tech chief Sarv Girn as its new chief information officer.

Westpac trials SIM-based mobile payments

Australia's Westpac is to begin pilot trials of an Android-based mobile contactless payment application.