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• Bankwest app feature helps users spot fradulent transactions

  Bankwest has launched a new feature to its mobile app offered by Look Who's Charging to help customers quickly spot possible fraudulent transactions.

• Physical cash over apps preferred when splitting bills for booze or food

  Despite the availability of real-time payments between banks and a proliferation of bill splitting apps, when it comes to divvying up the money for a group meal or round of drinks, Aussies still prefer to use cash, a Bankwest survey suggests.

• Lessons learned from a transformation: Bankwest

  The bank reorganised its teams to cut bureaucracy and innovate faster than ever before. But it learnt a few things along the way, says CIO Andy Weir.

• 15,000 customers using Bankwest Halo ring

  Bankwest has sold its Halo ‘tap and go’ payment ring to around 15,000 of its 1.1 million customers almost one year after its launch.

• Matt Toohey new ME tech chief

  Former Bankwest exec Matt Toohey is the new chief information officer at ME. Toohey replaces Craig Ralston, ME’s group executive of customer banking, who had been acting CIO since Mark Gay’s departure last November.

• Bankwest transformation 'absolutely about survival': Andy Weir

  Bankwest isn’t embarking on a digital transformation because it’s trying to be ‘cool or trendy’ or do something different to its competitors. The transformation is “absolutely about survival” and making sure the bank can exist in an increasingly digital environment, says its tech boss Andy Weir.

• Bankwest unveils ‘Halo’ payment ring

  Bankwest on Thursday launched ‘Halo’, a ring that enables users to make ‘tap and go’ payments as an alternative to cash or a contactless card.

• Bankwest employees trial wearable contactless payments tech

  Bankwest has begun a “toe in the water trial” of wearable payments.

• ‘Frictionless’ collaboration with activity-based working

  Twenty-five per cent of CEOs will be looking at activity-based working (ABW) within two years, according to figures cited by Ed Cortis. And that’s likely to be a positive thing in most workplaces, the head of solution delivery at Bankwest told the Agile Australia conference this morning.

• Bankwest launches new website, iPhone app

  Bankwest's revamped website will take advantage of crowd-sourcing with user-generated comparisons and a range of new online-shopping inspired functions designed to reflect a more retail, customer-centric perspective.

• Bankwest cites project management as key to capped rate home loan success

  Bankwest has praised the use of project managers after revealing one of its key projects relied heavily on project management skills.

• Bankwest moves into Fujitsu data centre in Perth

  Commonwealth Bank subsidiary, Bankwest, has signed on as the first official customer of Fujitsu’s newly-opened data centre in Perth.
  

• Bankwest feeds agile methods into CBA

  Commonwealth Bank (CBA) is watching the use of agile practices at recently acquired subsidiary Bankwest, which helped cut two-thirds out of the project deployment time. Bankwest chief information officer, Andy Weir, spoke about the bank's use of agile practices for a technology project to develop a debt management application at the <Agile Australia</i> conference in Melbourne.

• BankWest sees success with in-house social networking

  BankWest has revealed details of its internal social networking service, IdeaBank, with the platform resulting in more collaboration and innovation.