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Westpac is running a trial to allow customers with a debit MasterCard to turn their Android smartphones into contactless payment devices. The bank has partnered with Optus and Oberthur Technologies.. read more

ANZ will launch an application in the final quarter of the year that will allow local corporate clients to view accounts on the bank's Transactive platform from their iPhones, iPads and iPod Touche.. read more

NAB's online-only brand, UBank, has migrated its 300,000 customers on to NAB's new computing platform, which is being built in partnership with software giant Oracle. read more

Australia has been specifically targeted by international fraud rings because of the sluggish adoption of online security systems, according to Visa. And the banks are partly to blame. read more

Commonwealth Bank has reduced the number of major computer crashes it endures from 10 in 2011 to just seven during the last financial year. read more

Commonwealth Bank yesterday demonstrated a banking application for Facebook that will allow customers to view their accounts and execute transactions without ever leaving the social network. The ban.. read more

Commonwealth Bank has finally released an Android version of its Kaching mobile payments app. It has also upgraded Kaching's iPhone version, which allows payments to be made between two Kaching-enab.. read more

IP Payments, which provides technology to facilitate A$12 billion worth of payments each year in Australia, has called on the Reserve Bank to be more explicit about exactly who might be able to conn.. read more

Credit Union Australia staff will have their access to annual leave restricted during the first five months of next year as CUA trains almost 800 staff in how to use its new core banking computer s.. read more

Starting next week, St George Bank customers who use the bank's mobile banking application will be able to make payments of "everyday amounts" to anyone, armed only with their mobile phone number. read more