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• Former Westpac CIO Bob McKinnon joins Sprooki

  ​Former Westpac CIO, Bob McKinnon, has joined the board of tech start-up Sprooki as its new chairman.
  

• Westpac outlines data centre consolidation strategy

  Faced with the challenge of operating nine data centres around Australia, Westpac Group is one year into a four-year program designed to consolidate these numerous facilities into two Sydney-based data centres.

• Clive Whincup steps into Westpac Group CIO role

  The Westpac Group has found a new CIO, Clive Whincup, from within its internal ranks.

• Proving the value of IT - Part three

  The ongoing issue with the value debate is its subjectivity; value is a perceptive judgement that must, by necessity of a business case, be quantified, particularly when each project must be signed off by the chief financial officer. And therein lies the problem, says Capability Management partner, Vince Gill.

• Shared banking cloud possible, not practical: Westpac CIO

  Pooling infrastructure and applications into a common public cloud for Australia’s banks is not a far-fetched idea, but the practicality of getting all parties to agree will prevent its reality, according to the head of IT at Westpac bank.
  

• Westpac delays core banking integration to focus on customer facing technologies

  Westpac's group executive for technology, Bob McKinnon, has outlined the bank’s technology strategy during the groups IT and productivity update, including the decision to delay the integration of its core systems with St George Bank’s Hogan platform until 2014. Instead, the bank will focus on customer facing technologies.

• Westpac goes with Fiserv to rejuvenate online banking

  Top-tier Australian bank Westpac has chosen Fiserv’s online individual, business banking and corporate services for it’s online transformation program, where the bank aims to update the online services currently available to its customers.