253 Results from "Westpac"
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Cameron Meindl, Westpac's chief platform officer who has been overseeing the bank's move into the banking-as-a-services arena, has quit after 13 years with the Australian lender.
04 November 2021
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Commonwealth Bank of Australia is implementing artificial intelligence technology and machine learning techniques to detect serial abusive behaviour in transaction descriptions within the CommBank App and Netbank.
11 October 2021
Westpac has extended its digital gambling block feature to two million debit card customers of its St George, BankSA and Bank of Melbourne subsidiaries.
04 October 2021
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During a Senate inquiry into “Australia as a Technology and Finance Centre” representatives from three fintech firms criticised Australian banks for their ‘de-banking’ practices, which tend to hit those involved in the crypto sector particularly hard.
10 September 2021
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Westpac has brough over 1000 jobs back to Australia following a commitment in 2020 to roll back offshoring of customer facing contact roles.
27 August 2021
Australian buy now, pay later firm Afterpay is diversifying through the launch of a 'money and lifestyle' app.
21 July 2021
ANZ, CommBank and Westpac all faced issues with their online banking services on Thursday thanks to a problem with a DDoS mitigation tool run by cloud services provider Akamai.
17 June 2021
Mastercard has joined a $25 million funding round in Australian payments-as-a-service fintech mx51.
24 May 2021
Australia's Westpac is shutting down 48 bank branches and amalgamating others in a major reduction in its national branch network.
26 March 2021
Marketplace lender SocietyOne is the second Australian fintech to join Westpac's new digital banking-as-a-service platform.
23 February 2021
ANZ, Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Westpac, IBM and Scentre Group are to formally launch a blockchain-based platform that reduces the time to issue a bank guarantee from one month to one day.
10 February 2021
Westpac is introducing new tools to clamp down on the use of payment channels to send abusive and threatening messages to recipients via the description and reference fields in online banking transactions.
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