291 results about this entity
Period: 26 Nov 2004 - 02 May 2024
Company announcement/regulation
Westpac has committed to remediating customers whose financial advisers may have failed to notify them of corporate actions between 2005 and 2019.
02 July 2021
News/retail
ANZ, CommBank and Westpac all faced issues with their online banking services on Thursday thanks to a problem with a DDoS mitigation tool run by cloud services provider Akamai.
17 June 2021
Company announcement/people
Westpac Group is creating more than 300 new roles in Adelaide and is encouraging South Australians to apply.
11 June 2021
News/payments
Mastercard has joined a $25 million funding round in Australian payments-as-a-service fintech mx51.
24 May 2021
Company announcement/retail
Westpac has introduced a new blocking mechanism in its online and mobile banking platforms which will allow customers to restrict their spend with gambling merchants.
28 April 2021
Australia's Westpac is shutting down 48 bank branches and amalgamating others in a major reduction in its national branch network.
26 March 2021
Company announcement
Westpac Banking Corporation today announced that it was bringing together the leadership of its Consumer and Business divisions into a new Consumer & Business Banking division.
18 March 2021
Marketplace lender SocietyOne is the second Australian fintech to join Westpac's new digital banking-as-a-service platform.
23 February 2021
ANZ, Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Westpac, IBM and Scentre Group are to formally launch a blockchain-based platform that reduces the time to issue a bank guarantee from one month to one day.
10 February 2021
Westpac is introducing new tools to clamp down on the use of payment channels to send abusive and threatening messages to recipients via the description and reference fields in online banking transactions.
Almost half (44%) of small to medium sized enterprises (SMEs) have changed their business model to adapt to financial disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, with one in five of those embracing online trading.
04 December 2020
The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) has taken enforcement action against Westpac Banking Corporation (Westpac) in response to material breaches of APRA’s prudential standards on liquidity.
01 December 2020
Australian bank Westpac has enlisted IBM to help build a complaint resolution platform that is now being rolled out to more than 15,000 customer-facing employees.
27 October 2020
Westpac has sold its stake in Australian buy now, pay later firm Zip just days after entering into a relationship with POS financing rival Afterpay.
26 October 2020
Westpac has introduced local buy now, pay later player AfterPay as the first third party fintech to operate on its new banking-as-a-service platform.
21 October 2020
Westpac chief executive Peter King has firmed up his executive team with the appointment of Chris de Bruin as chief executive of the bank’s consumer division.
05 October 2020
News/crime
Australian bank Westpac has become the latest institution to fall foul of anti-money laundering rules after it was slapped with a record fine of A$1.3bn ($0.9bn) by the Australian regulator.
24 September 2020
01 September 2020
Westpac Group has today announced that it has entered into an agreement for the sale of its Vendor Finance business to Angle Finance, a portfolio company of Cerberus Capital Management, L.P.
21 August 2020
News/security
Westpac is implementing new scam-detection technology across its branch network to protect against a spike in fraudulent transactions since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic.
10 August 2020
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