304 results about this entity
Period: 26 Nov 2004 - 24 Mar 2025
News
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
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
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