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• Alipay pilots ‘Sydney City Card’ for Chinese tourists

  ​Payments giant Alipay is piloting a ‘Sydney City Card’ aimed at visiting Chinese tourists.

• How to deal with a major tech crisis

  As a tech chief, chances are you deal with ‘mini crisis’ situations regularly. But how do you respond when something truly terrible happens?

• ​ING Direct taps mobile fingerprint scanning

  ING Direct is the latest bank to introduce a fingerprint scanning capability on its mobile app. Touch Login lets customers use the fingerprint sensor on their Touch ID-capable Apple iPhones or iPads to securely log in to the mobile banking service.
  

• ANZ and IBM sign new $450 million contract

  ANZ bank has extended its collaboration with IBM by signing a new five-year, $450 million contract with the tech giant to drive productivity and assist in the bank’s regional Asian expansion.

• NAB Traveller card can be loaded with 10 currencies simultaneously

  National Australia Bank (NAB) has upgraded its Traveller card so that customers can load up to 10 currencies at one time onto the card using Internet/mobile banking while they are in Australia or overseas.

• Westpac Group opens $4m Sydney innovation centre

  Westpac Group has unveiled an innovation centre dubbed The Hive in Kogarah, Sydney today to develop more services for its 10 million customers in Australia.

• Westpac NZ and Samsung collaborate on digital banking innovations

  This is the first agreement of its type in New Zealand, says Westpac.
  

• Finger scanning could be used as mobile banking login: Westpac NZ

  Westpac New Zealand has completed a trial which could allow customers to use finger print scanning to log into its mobile banking app on the Samsung Galaxy S5 and eventually other smartphones.

• Rabobank reduces malware risk with new authentication services

  Customers of Rabobank Australia and New Zealand are being offered two factor secure authentication services when they transact online following the signing of a deal with US-based security vendor ThreatMetrix.

• Q&A: ANZ Banking Group CIO, Anne Weatherston

  Shifting ANZ Banking Group from an Australian and New Zealand centric bank to a super-regional Asia Pacific financial services entity while implementing new technology is Anne Weatherston’s top priority for the next five years.

• Private cloud 'very important' for ANZ Banking Group: CIO

  While CBA CIO Michael Harte has dismissed data sovereignty and security excuses used by businesses not to move to the cloud as “absolute garbage”, over at ANZ, CIO Anne Weatherston has taken a different approach to cloud adoption.

• SMS is not the issue with fraudulent bank transfers, telcos are: Experts

  Despite its widespread use, SMS technology has lost its luster as a safe means of verifying the identity of an individual during a banking transaction.
  

• ANZ Bank launches Transactive iOS app for corporate customers

  ANZ Bank has continued its mobile banking push with the release of the Transactive iOS app for corporate customers, allowing them to remotely monitor real-time account balances, view current transactions and approve or reject payments.

• Bankwest branches into Android app space

  Commonwealth Bank subsidiary Bankwest has responded to customer demand for mobile banking by launching a free Android application. This follows the bank’s release of an iPhone app in March this year which has been downloaded 85,000 times from the iTunes app store.

• CommBank updates mobile apps, eyes social payments

  The CommonWealth Bank of Australia (CBA) has updated is suite of mobile banking applications with native apps for the iPhone, iPad, Android, Windows Phone and the browser-based HTML5, with technology for near field communications (NFC) and social payments on the way.