Westpac to launch mobile payments in new year
Starting early next year, Westpac customers will be able to pay in stores by tapping their Android smartphones against payment terminals.
Starting early next year, Westpac customers will be able to pay in stores by tapping their Android smartphones against payment terminals.
St George Bank has confirmed that it experienced some issues with online and mobile banking earlier today.
Banks are seeking closer relationships with customers through greater use of customer data and new technologies, according to banking and telecom officials at the CeBIT Financial Tech conference in Sydney.
BT Financial Group has tapped business intelligence (BI) software from QlikView to provide insights on how to grow and retain customers for its financial advice business.
Banks have responded positively to the Australian Payments Clearing Association's proposal for new real-time payments infrastructure, saying it will lead to more innovation in areas such as mobile payments.
Pocketbook, a Sydney-based startup, seeks to build a simpler and more useful service for managing spending than current offerings in Australia.
Westpac has updated its banking app for the iPad to include new payment options for users.
Faced with the challenge of operating nine data centres around Australia, Westpac Group is one year into a four-year program designed to consolidate these numerous facilities into two Sydney-based data centres.
Australian banks need to upgrade IT infrastructure and data gathering skills if they want to compete with new players such as Google, according to financial IT consultants.
Westpac is to carry out an organisational reshuffle which will see its IT department move from the forefront to the backseat of the organisation.
Westpac has moved to dispel a number of common myths associated with banks using Cloud services, following its own recent journey to the Cloud.
Westpac has warned customers that an IT glitch overnight has caused delays in some of its payments to and from other banks.
Westpac and ANZ have confirmed they are initiating a token replacement program as a result of the recent RSA security token hack.
IT equipment financing provider, ThinkSmart (ASX:TSM), expects the value of a customer contract to grow 25 per cent after implementing a new securitisation platform.
IT industry professionals, analysts and vendors all have their unique ideas when it comes to describing what Cloud computing means, but according to one infrastructure leader it’s just like ordering a pizza.