296 results about this entity
Period: 26 Nov 2004 - 31 Jul 2024
News
Australia's Westpac says a A$338 million programme to integrate its IT with recently acquired St George Bank is progressing well but warns the project could yet throw up unexpected costs that would diminish merger benefits.
06 May 2009
Australia's Westpac has pulled its presence in Second Life and ditched a number of high profile Web 2.0 pilots in response to poor user uptake and changing business conditions.
04 March 2009
Australia's Westpac says it will spend A$338 million on information technology-related expenditure as it begins a four-year programme to integrate its operations with St George Bank.
18 December 2008
Users of Westpac's online banking services will face disruption later this week when IBM technical support staff begin strike action, warns the Australian Services Union.
01 September 2008
Australia's Westpac has hired former Commonwealth Bank CIO Bob McKinnon to lead a newly restructured technology division.
17 July 2008
Back office staff at Australia's Westpac are working overtime to reverse millions of dollars worth of transactions after a 'processing error' led some payments to fail and duplicated tens of thousands of other payments in and out of customer accounts.
04 July 2008
Australia's Financial Sector Union (FSU) has called for the country's government to act to prevent banks from shifting jobs to overseas centres amid concerns that Westpac is looking to offshore more work.
02 May 2008
Westpac has pulled out of The Trust Centre, an initiative sponsored by the Australian bank with a mandate to provide third party customer identity management services to financial services firms.
27 November 2007
US IT services firm EDS has hired former Westpac technology chief Michael Coomer to lead its global financial services division.
29 October 2007
ANZ has become the latest Australian bank to experience Internet breakdown problems after a software malfunction knocked out its online banking service for 11 hours.
13 September 2007
Australian bank Westpac has taken legal action against a former customer in a dispute over A$11 million that was "mistakenly" transferred to his account over a two-year period.
21 August 2007
Australian banking group Westpac has cancelled thousands of Visa credit cards over the past week following a security breach at an un-named third party vendor, according to local press reports.
19 July 2007
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