296 results about this entity
Period: 26 Nov 2004 - 31 Jul 2024
News
Commonwealth Bank of Australia has extended its core banking tech modernisation programme by a year, and upped spending on the project to $1.1 billion, almost double its original estimates of $580 million.
10 February 2011
IBM has extended its IT infrastructure deal with Australian giant Westpac for a further five years, quashing speculation that the bank was preparing to reverse away from mega-outsourcing contracts in favour of tactical best-of-breed arrangements.
22 November 2010
Australian banks ANZ and WestPac are both tapping cloud technology for the testing and development of new software.
13 October 2010
Australian banking giant Westpac has set back by four year the timetable for migration of its core banking platform to the Hogan system used by its subsidiary St George as it strives to make sense of its sprawling IT estate.
08 October 2010
Australia's Westpac has selected technology from US vendor Fiserv for an overhaul of its retail, business and corporate online services.
28 July 2010
First Direct's love affair with social media took a cold bath last night when the UK online bank's Twitter account was hacked and used to send pornographic messages to followers.
26 February 2010
With many banks still wary of social media, Australia's Westpac provided an example of the potential pitfalls today when an employee accidentally posted a self-pitying tweet using the firm's official account, prompting scorn from followers.
18 February 2010
Westpac has appointed retail and business banking chief Peter Hanlon as group executive for people and transformation with responsibility for modernising the Australian bank's technology and streamlining processes for customers.
07 December 2009
Australia's Westpac has signed a five year, US$50 million contract with Hypercom for the provision and maintenance of thousands of payment terminals.
10 November 2009
Westpac CEO Gail Kelly has broadly hinted that the bank is unlikely to renew its decade-long IT outsourcing deal with IBM, as banks move away from all-in-one mega deals to more tactical best-of-breed outsourcing arrangements.
05 November 2009
Visa is to adjust its interchange rules in New Zealand and pay NZ$2.6 million to the country's competition authority to settle a two-year old civil suit brought against the card scheme. Anti-trust claims against MasterCard and six banks remain outstanding and will be heard at the High Court in Auckland in October this year.
13 August 2009
New Zealand police and Interpol are hunting a couple who are believed to have fled the country after Westpac mistakenly deposited NZ$10 million into their bank account.
21 May 2009
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