Posts Tagged ANZ
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Banks trial online banking apps on Telstra’s T-Hub
Three of Australia's four major banks are preparing to offer online banking tailored to Telstra's T-Hub device, testing their existing mobile applications for the T-Hub's seven inch screen. The T-Hub is a wireless touch-screen device, linked to a Telstra fixed line and BigPond broadband servic...
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ANZ just scratching the Surface
ANZ bank has become the first company to deploy Microsoft Surface technology in Australia, but has told Online Banking Review it is still working out how best to apply the technology to a real-life banking environment. The technology was seen in action at this year’s Australian Open tennis tour...
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Capturing wallet share
Customers in the market for a new credit card have a shopping list of pricing and quality features they want to tick off with ease and speed BY GREG WADDELL Michael is in the market for a credit card. When it comes to credit cards, he is not necessarily loyal to his primary banking provider. ...
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Saving for a rainy day?
Commonwealth Bank and Westpac have stormed to the lead in bank deposits as Australians continue to hoard their cash BY JOHN PHILLIPS The now infamous but more understood Global Financial Crisis spooked investors into overweight cash asset allocations for safety in recent years, but new figur...
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Competition will return in 2010. Will the major banks be ready for it?
Banks should innovate rather than hibernate in a crisis said ANZ head of online banking Sam Plowman back in March. Plowman has since moved on to a new role heading up the direct channel at NAB, the other of the aptly named ‘two stumps’. Australia’s banks have so far performed well in the...
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Who or what will fund the next round of PFM?
Personal financial management provider Wesabe has stepped up its efforts to sign on more financial institutions with the launch of a website to support direct sales of its Springboard platform. Springboard offers a cloud-based services model for financial institutions that want to offer budgetin...
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Transparency is the new black in banking
Banks need to refocus on their essential social and economic functions if they are to rebuild trust in the eyes of the public, argued the head of the UK’s Financial Services Authority in September. Lord Turner also called for a return to basics, rather than “over-complex products of no real use ...
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Making P2P mobile payments a reality
News last week that Nokia is to launch a financial services offering enabling peer-to-peer mobile payments has many in the banking industry talking.The move is probably a greater threat to Western Union than it it to large banks, but it will push banks to more seriously consider the peer-to-peer pay...
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Banks and bankers from AU/NZ on Twitter
Since we ran this story on banks using Twitter back in October last year, even we’ve been surprised by the rapid uptake of the micro-blogging service.This month Twitter became the 37th most visited website by Australian users (according to Hitwise), with an annual growth rate of 3,220 per cent (no...
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What’s next for online banking?
The Commonwealth Bank is preparing to launch an enhanced version of Internet banking that allows users to view their insurance, CommSec and Colonial First State products in one place.The enhanced site will also include pre-completed insurance and term deposit applications, and a secure messaging are...