NAB employs resident ‘girl geek’ to support women in tech roles
NAB will be running an all-female hackathon and employing a ‘girl geek in residence’ as part of a continued effort to support women working in technology at the bank.
NAB will be running an all-female hackathon and employing a ‘girl geek in residence’ as part of a continued effort to support women working in technology at the bank.
Westpac has named 200 SMEs as the ‘Businesses of Tomorrow’ and has selected 20 to receive additional mentoring and a $100,000 professional services package.
Westpac group CEO Brian Hartzer likes to describe his company as the “original 200-year-old startup” — with the capacity to innovate embedded “deep in the DNA of the Westpac group”.
A group of banks has lost its fight with Apple over the iPhone-maker’s payments platform.
It may sound like a Judge Dredd sidekick character, but ‘techno-legal’ is the term given to a new breed of in-demand lawyers, who are both comfortable with code and can keep their cool in court.
Westpac has been hit by a problem affecting in-branch transactions, the bank has confirmed.
A group of banks that have sought the right to act as a cartel in negotiations with Apple over the iPhone maker’s Apple Pay platform have narrowed the scope of their application to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC).
Westpac Group is increasing its stake in QuintessenceLabs to enable the homegrown quantum cyber security company to further expand its global reach.
ANZ bank will automatically update customers’ digital wallets with replacement card details if they report a card lost or stolen.
Calls for Australia’s biggest banks to open up access to customer data could prove a double-edged sword for the fintech industry and further entrench the dominance of the ‘Big Four’, says ANZ’s general manager of data, Darren Abbruzzese.
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission will not authorise a group of banks to band together for negotiations with Apple over the iPhone maker’s Apple Pay platform, states a draft decision issued today by the ACCC. A final decision is not expected until March next year.
Westpac registered a 3 per cent increase in costs for FY16 in line with the group’s revenue growth, with CEO, Brian Hartzer, telling a full year results briefing that the bank’s investment spend would help put it in good stead for future returns.
A group of banks has confirmed that, at present, only Apple Pay is targeted by an application to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission that would allow them to engage in a collective boycott of digital wallet services.
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has pushed back the timeframe for releasing a draft decision in a stoush between some of Australia’s biggest banks and Apple.
Even if the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) authorises collective negotiations between a group of banks and Apple over the use of the Apple Pay platform, the iPhone maker says that it “will not and cannot” agree to the conditions likely to be sought by the banks.