304 results about this entity
Period: 26 Nov 2004 - 24 Mar 2025
News
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
Australian banking group Westpac has appointed McKinsey consultant and former GM of its banking operations Diane Sias as group executive, business and technology solutions and services.
09 July 2007
Australia's Westpac has suspended 900 customer cash cards following the discovery of a skimming device at an ATM in Melbourne.
24 May 2007
Australia's Finance Sector Union (FSU) has launched a Web site that will enable consumers in the country to see if their bank is sending their personal data to offshore centres.
11 December 2006
Australian banking group Westpac has ditched plans to shift hundreds of back office jobs from Sydney to an offshore centre in India.
17 November 2006
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