Westpac banks on bitcoins with Coinbase deal
[1] Westpac’s venture capital fund has unveiled its second investment in a US bitcoin start-up Coinbase in order to gain insights into digital currencies and associated techÂnologies. [2] Westpacâ€...
The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) leads the way with voice biometrics
[1] ATO will be leading the way in voice biometrics with the hope that its effort in deploying the VocalPassword in August last year and FreeSpeech in April will pay off. [2] The VocalPassword and Fre...
Videoconferencing at work in Australian finance sector
[1] According to senior managers from Westpac, customers can now easily walk in to the bank and talk to a specialist at Westpac’s Melbourne hub through Cisco’s videoconferencing. [2] Westp...
Aussie banks preparing Apple Watch apps
[1] Australian bank Westpac and subsidiary St George are preparing for the Australian launch of Apple’s new watch by developing apps that will have some banking functions to Apple Watch. [2] The ban...
The app that predicts property prices
[1] If house hunting has always been a problem due to underquoted sales prices, Josh Rowe and RealAs, a website and app, solves the problem. [2] RealAs conquered the Westpac Innovation Challenge in N...
Westpac IT workers in Sydney siege
[1] The IT services company and Westpac partner Infosys have confirmed that there employees were among the hostages in the Sydney siege. [2] They did not provide more information about their workers f...
Westpac to use fingerprint sign-in with Apple and Samsung devices
[1] Customers of Westpac, an Australian bank and financial-services provider, will from January 2015 start using a new fingerprint sign-in technology on their Apple and Samsung devices to access their...
Swift, Fiserv to build Australia’s new payments platform
[1] Swift, a global payment provider, has signed a legal contract to operate Australia’s newest central utility payments. [2] New Payment Platform (NPP) provides on the spot settlements, direct ...
Westpac, Seven fund Australian social network Nabo
[1] Westpac’s Reinventure Group and Seven West Media will be spending $2.25 million in the newest social network called Nabo. [2] Nabo will be launching on Monday and targets a million users bef...
The human side of cyber security
[1] The Australian Financial Review and KPMG organized the recently held Cyber Security round table and the human aspects of cyber security were mostly tackled in the discussions. [2] The human side o...