290 results about this entity
Period: 26 Nov 2004 - 19 Apr 2024
News/payments
HSBC Australia and Westpac have signed on as the first banks to offer a new Mastercard app that enables virtual commercial cards to be added to digital wallets.
19 April 2024
News/retail
Australian bank Westpac is planning to spend billions of dollars over the next four years to simplify its technology infrastructure.
28 March 2024
News/devops
Westpac has trained 800 engineers on the use of generative AI tools to speed up software development.
19 February 2024
Company announcement/security
Westpac is doubling down on its efforts to protect customers with the launch of new alerts that will help identify potential power of attorney abuse.
08 February 2024
News/wholesale
Westpac is to replace its currrent invoice finance loan system with technology from Dancerace.
07 February 2024
Company announcement/regulation
The Federal Court has declared Westpac Banking Corporation (Westpac) engaged in unconscionable conduct in October 2016 when executing a $12 billion interest rate swap transaction, the largest of its kind in Australian financial market history.
31 January 2024
Westpac and nCino have led a $28 million funding round in Rich Data Co, an Australian AI decisioning platform for bank business lending.
01 December 2023
News/security
The Australian banking industry is ushering in a raft of reforms to keep customers safe from scammers, including a $100 million investment to build a new Confirmation of Payee system.
27 November 2023
Company announcement/payments
Westpac has entered into an agreement to acquire electronic health claims processing business, HealthPoint.
02 November 2023
News/startups
Westpac NZ's venture capital fund has led a $1.4 million investment round in Kiwi open finance startup Akahu.
19 October 2023
Westpac today launched its first third party Android terminal app, Presto, as part of new cloud-based integrated payments solutions for merchant customers to help make it faster and easier to run their business.
16 October 2023
Company announcement/retail
Westpac customers can now visit any Westpac, St George, BankSA or Bank of Melbourne branch across Australia for their cash transactions following the rollout of new technology which connects our branch network across the country.
03 October 2023
News/regulation
An Australian regulator has taken Westpac to court, accusing the bank of failing to respond to customers that filed financial hardship notices because of a problem with its online process.
06 September 2023
Westpac has today announced new digital payment security features to help combat scam losses.
04 September 2023
Westpac Group has introduced a new feature in mobile and internet banking which gives customers the ability to instantly stop certain scheduled direct debit payments.
27 July 2023
Westpac is implementing new measures to stamp out financial abuse and make banking even safer for customers.
26 July 2023
Westpac CEO Peter King today announced a restructure to support the Group’s next strategic phase.
24 July 2023
Westpac is rolling out a suite of new card designs to help make payments more accessible for blind or low vision customers.
09 June 2023
Conversational AI chatbot developer Kasisto has launched KAI-GPT, the world’s first banking-specific large language model (LLM).
01 June 2023
News/crypto
Westpac has banned customers from sending money to the Australian arm of Binance as part of a wider series of measures designed to tackle cryptocurrency-related scam losses.
19 May 2023
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