A spokesperson for Westpac has confirmed that the bank “detected mis-use” of the New Payments Platform’s PayID feature and “took additional preventative actions which did not include a system shutdown.”
Westpac spent FY18 progressively migrating apps to its new private cloud environment, which the bank said was helping reduce app installation from weeks to hours.
The corporate venture capital arms of National Australia Bank and Westpac have led a $2 million seed funding round into Sydney ‘smart receipt’ start-up Slyp.
Westpac today announced it has implemented an offsite private cloud environment in 'an Australian banking first'.
In November last year National Australia Bank (NAB) announced a bold and urgent ambition: to directly hire 600 technology specialists before the year was out.
Samsung Pay can now be used by NAB customers, making the smartphone mobile wallet the first to be compatible with all of the Big Four Australian banks.
Three of the four Australian banks that lobbied to collectively bargain over Apple Pay have built their own payment platform.
ANZ Visa debit and credit card customers will have access to the Samsung Pay contactless mobile payment service.
Westpac is investigating an outage that hit some of its EFTPOS and ATM transaction services overnight.
New phishing campaign hits Australian inboxes as the banking giant works to restore its systems following a major outage.
Thousands of Australians were unable to access funds over the long weekend, after Westpac suffered a mobile outage lasting over 24 hours.
Email containing claims of locked accounts attempts to get users' details.
Industry, government and students come together for event at NSW Parliament on Budget night.
CPT Global has struck a deal with Wipro to deliver IT testing services to one of Australia’s biggest financial institutions.
Qirx, Adactin Group, Adepto, Araza, VMtech, Contexti, Evolve Intelligence, Norwood Systems, and The Missing Link Security made the list.
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