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• Jobs up for grabs: MTIA seeks CIO for newly created role

  The Major Transport Infrastructure Authority (MTIA) is seeking an experienced chief information officer for a newly created position within the Office of the Director-General.

• Updated: Ben Tabell leaves HSBC after 12 years

  HSBC’s chief information officer, Ben Tabell, will leave the bank at the end of the month to take up the role of CIO at eftpos Payments Australia.

• Westpac CIO Wood makes move to Allianz

  ​Allianz Australia has appointed Mike Wood as its new chief information officer.

• HSBC used blockchain to settle $250B worth of trades

  ​HSBC has settled $250 billion worth of forex trades using blockchain in the last year, it said on Monday, suggesting the heavily hyped technology is gaining traction in a sector until now hesitant to embrace it.

• David Gee new APAC cyber head at HSBC

  Former Metlife Asia CIO, David Gee, has joined HSBC as its APAC regional head of cybersecurity.

• ​Google wheels out big name customers at San Fran gabfest

  Google recruited several big name customers including international bank, HSBC, to discuss their cloud implementations at its annual San Francisco gabfest as the Silicon Valley giant looks to convince enterprises to shift their core systems to its cloud platform.

• HSBC Australia CIO moves to COO role

  HSBC Australia IT chief Katie Docherty will move to a chief operating officer role later this year, with the bank in the process of recruiting a new CIO.

• Banks turn to smartphone tech to fight online fraud

  To ward off cyber-crooks trying to break into customers' accounts, banks are expanding their security efforts beyond desktops and onto iPhones and other mobile devices.

• Jobs up and down but slowly getting better

  Monthly jobs growth continues to bounce up and down like a super ball - but the ball is bouncing higher.

• DDoS attacks against banks raise question: Is this cyberwar?

  It's been a month of crippling denial-of-service attacks on websites operated by U.S. banks and financial services firms. A terrorist organization called Al-Qassam takes credit online, but now the attacks are being blamed on Iran.

• HSBC fined £10.5 million for mis-selling to elderly

  HSBC fined £10.5 million for mis-selling to elderly

• China's service sector slows

  Expectations for new business dropped to their lowest level in three months, HSBC data shows

• Australian trade to boom through to 2025

  Australia's international trade will surge 129% by 2025 – nearly double the global growth rate over this time – with the strongest period to be the next five years, HSBC predicts

• EU authorities should get their own house in order says EPC

  The European Payments Council (EPC), which is being investigated by the European Commission for alleged antitrust violations in the e-payments market, has hit back at the Commission, saying it needs to stop sending out conflicting messages.

• HSBC downplays local data centre costs

  HSBC has confirmed plans to build a new Sydney-based data centre facility but the project's cost will be "significantly less" than speculated figure.