Technology offers 'no sustainable competitive advantage' 13 October 2010 6:26PM A dearth of technology skills and changing market place priorities were two of the key factors that led Westpac to announce last week that it would mothball its core computer systems' revamp plans f.. read more
TCS wants Bancs in the cloud 30 September 2010 3:28PM A cloud computer banking solution is being trialled in India by Tata Consultancy Services, as a first step in what is ultimately planned to be an international rollout of cloud services to the financi.. read more
Fast access not fast payments motivates ANZ 02 September 2010 4:28PM A free iPhone application that allows ANZ customers to monitor and manage their accounts and send a payment to any mobile phone has attracted 31,000 downloads in the first five days since its soft l.. read more
A poor week for payment systems 02 September 2010 4:27PM Access of any sort has been a challenge for banks in recent days. Just a week ago ANZ's in-store eftpos system went awry for several hours leaving merchants and customers frustrated. read more
Transfers in seconds for ANZ goMoney users 02 September 2010 4:25PM ANZ claims that its goMoney iPhone application has a speed advantage over many of the other banks' mobile applications, saying that users of the goMoney application would be able to access their acc.. read more
Visa targets PayPal with new payment system 25 June 2010 4:35PM Credit card giant Visa has PayPal in its sights with the launch of its payclick micropayments system in Australia. read more
Westpac responsive online 17 June 2010 4:06PM Westpac's website response times have blitzed the competition - proving 12 times faster than NAB's and 100 times faster than RaboPlus' Australian website. read more
CBA getting responsive 09 June 2010 4:50PM One of the four majors will go live with a new suite of software next Tuesday. The software is tipped to deliver management much greater visibility of the real-time impact of millions of finan.. read more
Westpac praises CBA IT 25 May 2010 4:34PM Westpac served up Commonwealth Bank an extraordinary free kick at the CeBIT technology conference being held in Sydney this week. read more
Alternative workspaces cut costs at NAB 07 May 2010 4:31PM Computer systems that can alert people when a colleague is available to collaborate online have delivered one of the most fundamental technology changes to wholesale banking in 20 years, according t.. read more