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• David Whiteing sells Killara home for $5.26m

  Commonwealth Bank CIO David Whiteing offloaded his heritage-listed home in the Sydney suburb of Killara for $5.26 million on Saturday.

• CBA announces new CIO

  The Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) has appointed David Whiteing as its new CIO.

• CBA CIO Michael Harte quits

  Commonwealth Bank CIO and group executive, enterprise services, Michael Harte has quit and will join Barclays Bank in London as its chief operations and technology officer in mid-2014.

• Tech startups to get regional boost

  SingTel Group on Wednesday unveiled Innov8 Sparks, a program that will help technology startups across Asia-Pacific gain access to new markets.
  

• Australian startups need our support: CBA CIO Michael Harte

  Startups have been crucial in developing innovations such as mobile apps, but Australian-based startups struggle to remain sustainable due to a lack of support from the federal government, according to CBA CIO Michael Harte.

• CBA’s CIO Michael Harte in BRW Rich List

  Commonwealth Bank CIO and group executive, enterprise services Michael Harte has just made it into BRW’s Executive Rich List for 2014.

• CBA CIO Michael Harte buys Mediterranean island

  Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) CIO Michael Harte has purchased a private island called Isola Budelli in the Mediterranean for $4.2 million (2.9 million Euros).

• CommBank reports huge drop in IT system incidents

  The Commonwealth Bank (CBA) has lauded its seven-year technology transformation project as a key reason for significant improvements in system reliability, reporting an 83 per cent drop in “high impact incidents” between FY07 and FY13.
  

• Interview: Michael Harte, CIO, Commonwealth Bank

  As the Commonwealth Bank’s Wired for Wonder conference came to a close, CIO caught up with the bank’s chief information officer, Michael Harte, to discuss innovation in IT, delivering competitive advantage and technologies that will have an impact over the next year.

• Customer focus in IT critical to business success: CommBank's Harte

  Businesses must use technology to increase focus on the customer or risk failure, according to Commonwealth Bank CIO Michael Harte.

• CBA, Telstra join Open Data Centre Alliance

  The Open Data Centre Alliance (ODCA) has signed up the Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) and Telstra as adopter members of its cloud and data centre roadmap.

• CBA CIO on keeping the faith

  In his darkest moments Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) CIO Michael Harte wondered if he made the right career choice.

• Regulation proves security headache for CBA’s CIO

  A new approach to information security is needed by both the financial services and security industries to allow banks to better protect their customers' assets, says Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) chief information officer, Michael Harte.
  

• Q&A: Commonwealth Bank CIO, Michael Harte

  After first joining the Commonwealth Bank back in April 2006 as CIO, Michael Harte, has made significant changes to the technology behind the bank, implementing a customer-focused IT strategy and embarking on a core banking modernisation project.

• Commonwealth Bank rolls out iPhone app, CIO touts real-time platform

  The Commonwealth Bank has launched a new mobile app which allows users to transfer funds to friends via their Facebook accounts or mobile device.